How do successful businesses value their people? In today's data-driven world, this isn't a question that competitive business leaders can afford to leave un-quantified. Today's guest on THE Q FACTOR is one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject. Harvard Business School professor Ethan Rouen has just published a game-changing paper called "The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital." Host Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital digs in with Rouen on this increasingly vital question: exactly how do the best companies invest in their people that leads to quantitative returns?
If you're running out of earthly investment ideas, perhaps you're simply not aiming high enough. Look to the Low Earth Orbit, says Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, Founder and CEO of the Aurelia Institute, and one of the most brilliant young thinkers we've ever had on THE Q FACTOR. Ekblaw joins host Gregg Fisher for a mind-blowing conversation about the extraordinary steps being taken to transform humanity into a "spacefaring species."
NOTE: THE Q FACTOR has had our eye on the "investment space in space" for some time now - check out our previous episodes with Dylan Taylor and Carolyn Porco if you're curious about other explorations we've made above Earth's atmosphere
The future may be dreamed in leaps and bounds, but it's built in small, well-considered steps. Today's guest is AJ Meyer, CEO of the delightfully-named Pickle Robot. They have one product: a robot that unloads trucks. And by focusing on one small slice of the supply-chain problem, Meyer and his team have built the foundation for the future, one in which human beings command the robots, and not the other way around. As always, Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital is your host.
The pandemic didn't change everything, but it certainly hit the accelerator. The future of work has arrived. Or has it? What are the trends worth paying attention to, and investing in, as we navigate this once-in-a-generation, or perhaps, once-in-a-century transition, to a fully-automated, work-from-home, semi-virtual, wholly-digital work life? Quent Capital's Gregg Fisher hosts an illuminating conversation with Dr. Joseph Fuller, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, and leader of the Managing the Future of Work Initiative.
Thanks to the application of data and scientific rigor, remarkable gains are being made against one of mankind’s most formidable foes: aging. Today’s guest is Dr. Barzilai, the founding director for the Institute of Aging Resesarch. In his conversation with host Gregg Fisher, Barzilai breaks down the latest insights in our treatment of the human aging process. Dr. Barzilai distinguishes biological age from chronological age, sharing that the actual number of years healthy human beings are designed to spend on earth is much great than you think.
Farms. They may seem old-fashioned. But the technological marvel known as the farm remains the centerpiece of human food consumption, and the $1 trillion category that is agriculture. How is agri-business adapting to the massive changes coming down the pike, from automation to global warming? How is artificial intelligence changing the way you and your family eat, shop, and think about food? Eric Adamson, Founder of Tortuga AgTech, sits down with Gregg Fisher to talk about the remarkable ways the farming & food service sector is evolving to fit the future.
The most brilliant business in the world will fail...if nobody hears about it. As we search for the best investments, we must search not only for great products, services, and leaders, but also for superb marketing as well. In this episode, Gregg's guest is one of the world's foremost experts on the subject of marketing. Prof. Dominique Hanssens of UCLA shares his thoughts, expertise, and insights - including shining a light on a few aspects of modern business you may not even THINK of as marketing...but are, in fact, fundamental pieces of the marketing puzzle.
How accurate is a company's balance sheet in assessing its value? Not accurate at all, says Prof. Baruch Lev, who joins host Gregg Fisher for an eye-opening conversation about the critical value of intangibles. Compared to the importance of measuring a company's intangibles, the importance of modern accounting pales. Prof. Lev is perhaps the leading voice on the subject, having authored two seminal works on the subject, Intangibles and The End of Accounting.
If entrepreneurship had a central office, it may very well be Babson College in Wellesley, MA, ranked the #1 school for entrepreneurship for over a quarter century. From Babson's hallowed halls have sprung the visionaries behind companies as varied as Ring, Home Depot, and Gerber Baby Food, among hundreds of others. What qualities make a great entrepreneur? Babson Professor Andrew Corbett joins host Gregg Fisher for an illuminating deep dive.
At long last, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be in its final stages. And yet the permanent impact this pathogen has had on human culture cannot possibly be overestimated. We will surely never go back to the "way things were before." In today's episode, Gregg Fisher talks to one of the foremost experts on the subject, Yale University's Dr. Nicholas Christakis, author of the gripping book, Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live.
Dylan Taylor is the single most active investor in an amazing new investment space: space itself. Space exploration, development, and travel, once unimaginable as an investment category, is now opening up as an opportunity for everyday investors. Join us for host Gregg Fisher's fascinating conversation with an amazing thought leader, Dylan Taylor, the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings.
Is your teenage daughter's TikTok usage tipping the balance of power to China? How much of our personal information is being funneled to the Chinese government? In this episode, Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital speaks with Dr. Adam Segal, Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, and one of the world's foremost authorities on China and cybersecurity. The war on privacy may be a cold war - but it's being fought every day, and the consequences are massive.
Surely at the heart of the nationalist, anti-globalist fervor that has gripped the US in recent years is income inequality: the widening gulf between the wealthy, and those the 21st century has "left behind." Not so fast, says Dr. Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School professor and noted economics scholar. Perhaps there is a deeper issue animating the anti-globalist movement. Host Gregg Fisher dives deep into the the subject with Dr. Abdelal in this episode of THE Q FACTOR.
Leadership and culture can make or break a business. But how can we lead, and foster a positive culture, in a world of distributed work? Host Gregg Fisher (Founder of Quent Capital) speaks with renowned scholar and author Dr. Frances Frei of the Harvard Business School, who has consulted with some of the most significant companies and leaders in the world today. Dr. Frei's new book, co-authored with Anne Morriss, is called UNLEASHED: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You.
The Q Factor, an award winning podcast hosted by Gregg Fisher, kicks off it's second season. Listen for a preview of what Season 2 has in store!
It's among the biggest questions our species faces: is there intelligent life in the universe, away from our planet? Data has been powering mankind's search for intelligent life in the universe ever since we first gazed up at the heavens, and began to ponder our place in the cosmos.
As Chief Analyst of 1010Data, Afshin Goodarzi's job is to keep track of every move you make. Does that make him a bad person? On the contrary, Afshin is a deeply moral, thoughtful human being. It just so happens that he works for a company, 1010Data, that serves as the big data "eyes and ears" for enormous multinationals like Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and JP Morgan.
Gregg speaks with Matan Parnes, PayPal's Head of Global Risk and Data Sciences, about the ways that money is being revolutionized - and put at risk - in the digital age.
Gregg speaks with Jesse Redniss, EVP of data strategy at Turner and head of WarnerMedia's Innovation Lab, about the myriad ways that data is upending, disrupting, and optimizing entertainment.
Two titans of finance, host Gregg Fisher and BlackRock's Andrew Ang go head to head on the white-hot subject of factor investing. Gregg and Andrew discuss how factors first captured their imaginations; trade perspectives on growth, value and momentum; and compare factor investing to music and cooking.
Many of America's struggling rust belt cities are being transformed by data from the inside out. Gregg's guest today is Dr. Satish Tripathi, renowned data scientist and President of the University at Buffalo. Tripathi talks about how quantititative thinking is bringing higher education into the 21st century, and powering a growing tech sector in Western New York.
A bona fide living legend, Dr. Robert C. Merton was one of the first true scientists to enter - and revolutionize - the world of finance. A distinguished professor at both MIT and Harvard, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton breaks down what he sees as a looming potential financial crisis, just over the horizon: the underfunding of the baby boom generation's retirement savings.
Gregg speaks with Anne Milgram, former Attorney General of New Jersey, about her pioneering work bringing data science into the world of criminal justice. Topics include: the US's incarceration dilemma, the development of a pretrial "risk assessment tool," and how even smart data can be contaminated by racial bias.
As the 2018 midterm elections approach, Gregg engages Ethan Roeder, political veteran and National Director of Data for both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. Ethan offers his unique perspective on the intersection of data and politics, and how information is being leveraged for political gain.
Hosted by Gregg Fisher, The Q Factor is a series of conversations with thought leaders from all walks of life, exploring the ways that data is transforming, disrupting, and revolutionizing our world. Awarded BEST PODCAST at the 2019 Mutual Fund Industry and ETF Awards.
