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Hosted by Design Observer · business · EN-US · 168 episodes
The Design of Business | The Business of Design explores how design shapes, and is shaped by, the world around us. Hosted by Ellen McGirt, the podcast features conversations with visionary leaders from a wide range of industries, from architecture and technology to journalism and retail. Together, they examine creative practices, challenge conventional thinking, and explore how design drives business, innovation, and social change. On this season of DB|BD, we are thinking about radical collaboration. Host Ellen McGirt sat down with visionary designers, leaders and thinkers at the 2026 Aspen Business & Society Summit to ask them about the radical act of collaborating with others in a time when it often feels impossible to find common ground.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Design of Business | The Business of Design explores how design shapes, and is shaped by, the world around us. Hosted by Ellen McGirt, the podcast features conversations with visionary leaders from a wide range of industries, from architecture and technology to journalism and retail.
The Design Of Business | The Business of Design is hosted by Design Observer. The show has published 168 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "DB|BD at Aspen: Eric Ries Would Like to Apologize" (6 October 2026, 37 minutes), "DB|BD at Aspen: Proactivity is the Key to Survival With Edelman’s Dave Fleet" (6 October 2026, 34 minutes), and "DB|BD at Aspen: Innovation Requires Collaboration with Professor Linda Hill" (29 September 2026, 46 minutes).
The Design Of Business | The Business of Design publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 168 episodes.
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Episode #9
In 2011 Eric Ries published a book called The Lean Startup . It sold over one million copies and became something of a Bible for the Silicon Valley set. And Eric himself became something of a prophet. The Lean Startup...
Episode #8
Dave Fleet sees more corporate crises in a month than many executives see in their entire career. He is the Managing Director and the Head of Global Crisis at Edelman, meaning he helps companies prepare for, and manage...
Episode #6
No one has better insight on what it takes to lead across space and time than Linda Hill. She has been a professor at Harvard Business School for forty years. Her current title is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of...
Episode #7
Steve Goldbach leads Deloitte’s Sustainability and Infrastructure practice. He believes today's leaders face an emerging new design challenge: figuring out how the next generation will build real judgment and taste when...
Episode #4
Chris Hyams spent 15 years at the job search platform Indeed, becoming its CEO in 2019. When he stepped down in 2025, more than 300 million jobseekers visited Indeed’s site every month. He also 200x’d the company’s...
Episode #5
Erika James became the dean of the Wharton School on July 1, 2020. So she knows a thing or two about leading during a crisis. She even wrote a book about it. Dean James, and her co-author Lynn Perry Wooten, published...
The Design Of Business | The Business of Design
DB|BD is proud to introduce Design Observer's latest podcast: Draw the Line, the inside story of Louisiana’s fight over power, maps, and who gets left off them. Because every district line is a design decision — and...
Episode #1
Listeners, it has been a while, but DB|BD is back! And this season we are thinking about radical collaboration. For the second year in a row, Design Observer is publishing some exclusive conversations from the Aspen...
Episode #2
In 1949, Walter and Elizabeth Paepkes invited 2,000 artists, thinkers and business leaders to the abandoned mining town of Aspen, Colorado, for the first iteration of an Aspen Institute gathering. Eight decades later...
Episode #3
If you’re in the business world, you’ve heard of Judy Samuelson. Even if you’re not in the business world, you may have heard of Judy Samuelson. That’s because Judy is one of the most influential voices thinking about...
Episode #12
Lee Moreau is the host of the Design Observer podcasts Design As and The Futures Archive . He is also a Professor of the Practice of Design at Northeastern University and the founder and director of Other Tomorrows , a...
Episode #11
We’re back with part 2 of our peek behind the curtain of the 2025 Aspen Business & Society Summit. And this time we are asking the big question. In a period of global turmoil, does leadership need a redesign? It’s clear...
Episode #10
Every summer, the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program’s annual summit gathers 200+ leaders from the worlds of business, science, government, design, and the arts at the Institute's Colorado campus. They...
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Instead of our usual episode, we're excited to share a podcast we think you'll love: Say More with Tulaine Montgomery . In her podcast, Tulaine speaks with people who are deeply committed to making the world a better...
Episode #9
In a time where it's hard to feel hopeful, a new study has left leaders who value DEI aflutter with tentative optimism. It’s called The Risk of Retreat , conducted by Catalyst and the NYU Meltzer Center of Diversity...
Episode #8
In this episode of DB|BD, you’re in for a two for one– or in this case, a double double. First up, host Ellen McGirt sits down with Michael C. Bush, the CEO of Great Place to Work . Every year, Great Place to Work sends...
Episode #7
Ethan Marcotte is a web designer who may be best known for coining the term “responsive design” in 2010 – which turned out to be a prescient manifesto for the quest to design beautiful, accessible, and effective digital...
Episode #6
Debbie Millman is a shapeshifting creative who does a little bit of just about everything. She is a writer, designer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the podcast Design Matters- which celebrates its 20th...
Episode #5
Sana Javeri Kadri is the founder of Diaspora Co ., a single origin spice company that is revolutionizing the 500 year old $5 billion spice industry. Their mission is to “put money, equity and power into the best...
Episode #4
Jon M. Chu is a director, producer and screenwriter. Along with both parts of the Wicked movie adaptation, he directed Crazy Rich Asians, Step Up 2 and In the Heights. In a special live episode of DB|BD, Jon joins Ellen...
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