This episode of Deans Counsel is the last of three featuring special guest host, Alex Triantis, Dean of the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, and a previous guest (on Episode 16) of the podcast. Alex and co-host Dave Ikenberry speak with Ian Williamson, Dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California-Irvine, since January 2021.

Ian is a globally recognized expert in the area of human resource management. His research examines the impact of “talent pipelines” on organizational and community outcomes. Williamson has assisted executives in over 20 countries across six continents enhance firm operational and financial outcomes, improve talent recruitment and retention, enhance firm innovation and understand the impact of social issues on firm outcomes.

Ian recently published "The Conversation on Work," a book examining the shifting landscape for graduate business careers. Much of today's discussion revolves around this multi-faceted topic, and touches upon:

--the dramatic changes workers and the tools they use have undergone
--employer expectations and what they look for in business school graduates
--current and future demand for business undergrads
--international mobility
 
Learn more about Ian Williamson: https://merage.uci.edu/research-faculty/faculty-directory/ian-williamson.html

Learn more about our special guest host, Alex Triantis: https://carey.jhu.edu/about/leadership/alexander-triantis

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at feedback@deanscounsel.com

Thanks for listening.

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Produced by Joel Davis at Analog Digital Arts

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DEANS COUNSEL: A podcast for deans and academic leadership.

James Ellis | Moderator | Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (2007-2019)

David Ikenberry | Moderator | Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder (2011-2016)

Ken Kring | Moderator | Co-Managing Director, Global Education Practice and Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry

DeansCounsel.com

75: Ian Williamson (UC-Irvine) on Preparing for the Future of Work

5 MINUTINHOS DE BEAT COM VUCK VUCK

Pack your travel mugs and methodological curiosity - Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige is on the road! This roving episode of Called to the Bar comes to you from Newcastle and Manchester, where Tamsin chats with an impressive lineup of international law scholars about everything from space law to feminist lawyering, utopias to witnesses in international criminal law, and maybe even a  bit about gardens.

Along the way, we hear from: Cris van Eijk (Newcastle), Dr Matteo Bassetti (Essex), Dr Cristy Clark (Canberra), Dr Emily Jones (Newcastle), Dr Matilda Arvidsson (Gothenburg), Dr Juliana Santos De Carvalho (Downing College, Cambridge), Louisa Dassow (Newcastle), Professor Gina Heathcote (Newcastle), Dr Paola Zichi (Warwick), Dr Hasret Cetinkaya (Manchester Metropolitan), Dr Ash Murphy (Manchester Metropolitan), Dr Rosella Pulvirenti (Manchester Metropolitan), Dr Lucia Kula (SOAS), and Dr Kay Lalor (Manchester).

Join them as they discuss space law, trans rights, utopias, posthuman environmental law, gardens, international law making, feminist approaches to peace and war, feminist lawyering, human rights and gender, witnesses in international criminal law and much more!

Recommendations & Shout-outs:
🎧 Law at the End of the World podcast – https://lawattheendoftheworld.buzzsprout.com/

📸 Point and Bubbles – https://www.instagram.com/pointandbubbles/?hl=en

📖 Paola Zichi, Feminist Governance and International Law: A Critical Legal History from Mandate Palestine – https://www.routledge.com/Feminist-Governance-and-International-Law-A-Critical-Legal-History-from-Mandate-Palestine/Zichi/p/book/9781032568867

📖 Ash Murphy, Climate Change at the UN Security Council
Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003302681/climate-change-un-security-council-ash-murphy

58. The Newcastle and Manchester Roadshow: Methodology, Feminism, and the End of the World

Ferros e Anilhas - Pia Maromba

Prof. Sabine Hiebsch is the Kooiman-Boendermaker Chair for Luther and the History of Dutch Lutheranism at the Theological University of. She researches how Lutheran identity, liturgy and congregational life developed in the Netherlands in the early modern era, exploring the intersections of local Dutch-Lutheran practice and broader European Lutheran traditions. The conversation revolves around questions of personal choice, gender (in)equality and building a transnational academic career.

Historians in Conversation - episode 29 - Prof. Sabine Hiebsch

On this episode of Deans Counsel, hosts Dave Ikenberry and Jim Ellis speak with Bridget Madrian, the Dean and Marriott Distinguished Professor in the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics. 

Bridget Madrian studied economics at BYU as an undergrad, and after obtaining her Ph.D at MIT, she served on the business school faculty at Harvard, University of Chicago, Wharton and Harvard Kennedy before returning to BYU for her current role.

In this wide-ranging interview, Bridget shares her insights on Deaning, covering topics such as:
- Bridget's journey back to BYU
- Initial Challenges and Surprises she's faced as a Dean
- Strategies for balancing work with her personal life
- How she's improved BYU's already-excellent accounting program
- Her approach to implementing her strategic vision and mission

Learn more about Bridget Madrian: https://marriott.byu.edu/directory/details?id=63227

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at feedback@deanscounsel.com

Thanks for listening.

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Produced by Joel Davis at Analog Digital Arts

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DEANS COUNSEL: A podcast for deans and academic leadership.

James Ellis | Moderator | Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (2007-2019)

David Ikenberry | Moderator | Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder (2011-2016)

Ken Kring | Moderator | Co-Managing Director, Global Education Practice and Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry

DeansCounsel.com

76: Bridget Madrian (BYU): The "Insider" Comes Home

𝓘𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓮 †

𝓘𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓮 † (Sped Up)

𝓘𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓮 † (Slowed + Reverb)

Crash-land into the quantum club.
Impact Factor Zero is bright theremin chaos, starship-core flexing, and sugar-sticky lab-pop confidence.
Haiku CVs. Grape-flavored proteins. Portals Reviewer #2 could never understand.
If academia is the bottleneck, this song is the wormhole.
Turn it up and ascend—your impact factor can’t hold you back in orbit.

Impact Factor Zero

Pannill, Miriam, and Harvey discuss Carla Neuss's Theatre Journal article on gender reveals, James Bundy's retirement from leading the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and the PBS stream of The Public Theater's free production of Twelfth Night in Central Park.

On TAP: 082

industrial K-Pop Diss track blending rapid-fire technical rap with atmospheric gothic tension inspired by Frankenstein. The vocal delivery is sharp, articulate, wounded and furious—like a hyper-literate Creature confronting its negligent creator. The vibe is monstrous but noble—both tragic and defiant—rising from the cold to confront the “Frankenstein” institutions that built it.

FRANKENSTEIN - YOU MADE THIS MONSTER

A lively comedic medieval tavern shanty performed by an all-female vocal ensemble only—no male voices or male backing vocals. The song is a rowdy irresistible pub sing-along: stomping boots
clapping hands, round-style harmonies, and a chorus so catchy it loops endlessly like a classic drinking song. lute, bodhrán, hand drums, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy—with a bright upbeat rhythm.

THE APPRENTICE’S BALLAD - OF OUR GRAD STUDENT GUILD

A dark-comedy musical pop track performed by an all-female girl group—no male vocals or male backing voices anywhere. The song blends theatrical storytelling with sharp
satirical humour in the style of whimsical fantasy satire.

THE GLORIOUS LIFE OF OUR POSTDOC BRIGADE

A high-energy Celtic violin pirate dance mix. Grad Student Life Satire track. 
The track blends polished pop production with rowdy shanty roots: a driving four-on-the-floor beat sharp bodhrán hits pulsing bass and fiery Celtic fiddle runs woven through modern dance synths. 

2 A.M. grad student retreat (Pirate remix)

Produced by orbwvr (Guitar, percussion, distortion, mixing)
Additional sounds by Jacket13S (Lyrics, field recording, mixing)
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Lyrics:
Final's Day
[and] Professor's feeding on students
Failed sparing effect, the instructional jewel,
"Shut up and calculate!"
A steeper rule
"Paying complaints? Take it up with the tool!"
Academic weapon drool over AI applications  
Don't subscribe, deny
Hard CC (crowd control) in testing spaces
Penned solutions rooted
Two hours pacing the room...
[He's] scoffing haggardly at students
Half the class bickering
Senses ticked

Soiled hands in modern physics  
Sure let's take this to winter break
Screens to witness live gimmicks
Self-anointed tech ____ is your projection
Monumental threat guided lessons
Keep to the chest!
Today, we had a test...
The best
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Field recording of a vitamin lecture by my favorite professor during hall construction. The professor discussed in this song taught physics, not vitamins.

Keep it human, people.

Final’s Day

It seems like forever since we’ve had Jeff AND Brad on the same episode, hunkered down in a dimly lit bar, discussing entrepreneurship research over cocktails. As such, we’re delighted to have them reunited at long last at Nora’s, an honest-to-goodness speakeasy located a couple flights of stairs beneath downtown Louisville, CO. 	

Joined by guest academic researcher Nan Jia, Brad and Jeff speak with Jordan Leggett, Bar Lead and Mad Scientist at Nora’s. Jordan walks us through a trio of her innovative concoctions as she explains her creative approach to bartending. 

These libations, including a scotch cocktail with pumpkin puree and a tequila-based old-fashioned, are some of the most inventive and delicious creations we’ve encountered on Creative Distillation — and that’s saying something.

The conversation also features a Tiki Time check-in with Jeff, touches on testing new recipes, and asks whether ChatGPT is a good bartender (spoiler: it’s not). Thanks to Jordan at Nora’s for an illuminating — and perfectly dimly lit — discussion. 

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded at Nora’s in Louisville, Colorado. Follow them on Instagram @norasplacelouisville, and learn more at noras.place.

We’ll return from the holidays, still at Nora’s, for a deep dive with Nan Jia into her recent research on AI and productivity. 

Stay tuned for our next episode, the last of 2025, where we return to Dry Land Distillers to enjoy some holiday cheer with our favorite fall guest, CU’s Ethan Poskanzer.
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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

89: Jordan Leggett, Bar Lead and Mad Scientist at Nora’s Speakeasy

In Episode 60 of Called to the Bar, host Imogen Saunders (ANU) sits down with three leading journal editors — Prof Ingrid Brunk of the American Journal of International Law, Prof Liz Fisher of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Prof Jolyon Ford of the Australian Yearbook of International Law — to unpack the world of academic publishing in law. They discuss their paths into academia, what makes a submission stand out, how journals navigate contemporary controversies, and the responsibilities top outlets hold in supporting a diverse global scholarly community. A lively, candid, and deeply practical conversation, especially valuable for early-career researchers preparing their first submissions.

Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

60. Publishing, Peer Review and What Editors Wish You Knew

A podcast of informal conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. Hosted by Douglas Guilfoyle, Juliette McIntyre, Tamsin Paige, Imogen Saunders, and Nitna Tzouvala. 

Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

Since 2025
 Contato: piamaromba25@gmail.com

Velvet Entropy — D.U.R. Registered Sonic Anomaly.
Hyperpop · Sci-pop · Cosmic Electronics · OST · Uldrich Zone Lore

Operated by the D.U.R. - Department of Unnatural Rhythms (Casefile 0-Δ).
Impact Factor Zero → out soon

On TAP is a three-headed, freewheeling conversation about topics of current interest to graduate students, professors, independent scholars, and all those interested in academic Theatre and Performance Studies. Each edition features established scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies chatting about several topics of field-wide interest, including trends in ideas and scholarly methods, pedagogy, career development, notable developments in research, publishing and hiring, and news-worthy events. Something like a cross between a casual faculty seminar and an impromptu conversation at a conference hotel bar, On TAP features knowledgeable scholars discussing a rapidly evolving field of knowledge. It is not peer-reviewed.

Klauzula informacyjna: Klauzula informacyjna:
https://www.bip.uni.lodz.pl/fileadmin/BIP/informacja_odo_media_spo%C5%82eczno%C5%9Bciowe.pdf

Jacket13S. Medical student with an ear for birds and building infrastructure. Name reads like a smartphone or pair of sneakers. Rap, drone, field, and electronics

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill  entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

New tracks tagged #Academia