Podcast: Jan Rivkin of Harvard on the Barry-Wehmiller Case Study, Layoffs and Teaching Leadership

Over the years, we’ve talked about the Harvard Case Study that was written about Barry-Wehmiller in 2016. It’s a best seller, it’s been taught in over 200 universities to more than 30,000 students. 

On an earlier podcast, we talked to the authors of the case study, one of which is our guest today, Harvard Professor Jan Rivkin.

The earlier episode kind of dealt with the how and why the case study was written, but on this episode, we want to go a little deeper.

The Harvard Case Study of Barry-Wehmiller deals with layoffs, a subject that is very prominent in people’s minds today. So, on today’s episode, we talk with Professor Jan Rivkin about this issue and we also dive into the subject of business education and how leadership is taught and how students are thinking about leadership and how they react to the Barry-Wehmiller case study.

It’s a wide-ranging discussion, but one that is very pertinent to many issues we are facing today.