tepperreads

In the first of two podcasts this fall about Weike Wang's Joan is Okay, Academic Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss how people don't always lead or influence in the same way, learning to empathize with characters you don't like, and the paradox of what makes an American.

In the final podcast of the Spring 2022 Tepper Reads project, Academic Program Managers in Tepper's Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, continue their conversation about Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers. In this episode they talk about history and the importance of knowing where you come from, whose stories are told and whose are erased and why, and the first rule of leadership: "It's not about you."

Our discussion of Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers continues in the second podcast of the Spring 2022 season. Academic Program Managers in the Tepper School of Business' Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about metonymy, how it's different from metaphor, and how it helps us make sense of the world around us. Also discussed is America's penchant for quantity over quality, how gold functions in the novel and in real life, and different ways of being.

In the first episode of the spring 2022 podcast season, academic program managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss why Gold Diggers is the Tepper Reads pick for this spring. In the discusssion they touch upon how the novel helps one understand the motivations of others, relatability vs. empathy, upending stereotypes, the joy of reading the novel, and much more.

It's our final podcast of the Spring 2021 Tepper Reads season, and it's a great one. For our final podcast we talk with Leanne Meyer, Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center at Tepper, about what she's reading, leadership and identity development, and how it relates to The Vanishing Half, and a whole lot more. 

For the first podcast of Spring 2021 we talk with one very recent Tepper MBA alum, Jillian McCarthy, one current MBA student, Cynthia Mills, and one May 2020 alum, Adeel Rind, about their experience with Tepper Reads. If you're not sure if Tepper Reads is for you, give it a listen. We think you'll be surprised about the impact a book club at Tepper can have on students. And if you're already all-in, this will be a good opportunity to hear from some of your past and present friends at Tepper.

The third installment of the Fall 2020 Tepper Reads podcast series features Associate Director of Tepper Graduate Student Services, Kevin Dietrick. We talk about the banality of evil, growing up in a multicultural family, and what to do after you vote, all through the lens of The Nickel Boys.

In episode two of the Fall 2020 Tepper Reads podcast series, we talk with Chief Operating Officer of the Tepper School, Rhonda Fischer, about the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., her experience of raising Black boys in 21st century America, and the capacity for loving one's enemies. This is a powerful episode, you don't want to miss it.