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Ep. 48: Commencement, with UCLA’s Gene Block

“Normally about 14,000 students live on our campus in our dormitories and that's down to I think less than about 900 students....The campus has taken on an eerie feeling of really being abandoned.” Big changes are afoot at UCLA, America’s...

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Commencement, with UCLA’s Gene Block

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Ep. 47: Unprecedented, with UCLA Health’s John Mazziotta

“One day, for the first time in my 39 years, there were no patients in the emergency department. It was a Sunday morning. Never seen that in my life....Heart attacks, strokes, mental illness—these people were not coming in....There are a...

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Unprecedented, with UCLA Health’s John Mazziotta

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Ep. 46: Stewardship, with DBS Group’s Piyush Gupta

“Most times your right or your requirement for personal privacy trumps other kinds of needs. But a pandemic is...when it becomes quite clear that sometimes the needs of the collective, the needs of society, trump the needs of the individual...

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Stewardship, with DBS Group’s Piyush Gupta

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Ep. 45: Anchored, with Admiral James Stavridis

“The US and China, particularly in 2020, are on something of a collision course....We should confront where we must, we should cooperate where we can, and we should be clear-eyed that we're in for a period of real tension.” A retired 4-star...

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Anchored, with Admiral James Stavridis

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Ep. 44: The Virus and the Clock, with Moderna’s Tal Zaks

“In this fight, where we are today—this is May of 2020—there's a lot of other companies and a lot of other approaches that are trying to generate vaccines. I wish them all success, and we all need to be successful here. I have only two...

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The Virus and the Clock, with Moderna’s Tal Zaks

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Ep. 43: Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

“When I was working at ground zero, I saw a level of cooperation and willingness for everybody to sort of check their egos at the door because we knew that we were all facing an external threat. And that's exactly what we're seeing today...

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Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

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Ep. 41: Play, with Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz

“Play is never canceled. You can cancel school, you can suspend retail stores or close movie theaters, but you cannot cancel play.” For Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz, taking the helm of one the world’s iconic companies two years ago was a privilege...

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Play, with Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz

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Ep. 42: Foresight, with WorldQuant Predictive’s James Golden

“We knew that some kind of pandemic has always been inevitable….What we didn't really predict was the magnitude of the impact, the stress on the healthcare system, shocks to markets and economies….How do we predict the new normal at speed...

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Foresight, with WorldQuant Predictive’s James Golden

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Ep. 40: Can-Do, with MassMutual’s Roger Crandall

“You start by taking care of your people. Your people then can take care of their families and loved ones. That's how communities get taken care of. And that's kind of the building blocks that we see as being critical here.” For MassMutual...

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Can-Do, with MassMutual’s Roger Crandall

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Ep. 39: Trial by Fire, with Credit Suisse’s Thomas Gottstein

“I was deeply impressed. They managed much bigger volumes than in any normal period, and we were really very proud and still are very proud how our fixed income and equity traders managed these challenges, because it was certainly not an...

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Trial by Fire, with Credit Suisse’s Thomas Gottstein

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