The Sydcast is all about intimate and informative conversations with fascinating people you may not know. Until now. Because everyone has a story.
Listen in as Syd talks to entrepreneurs, community leaders, professional athletes, politicians, academics, authors, musicians, and many more about who they are and how they got there.
Sydney Finkelstein is an award winning professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a best-selling author of Superbosses and 25 other books. He’s written for the Harvard Business Review, the BBC, Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and more academic journals than you’d care to know about. He spends his time asking questions, and sometimes, even answering them.
How much does parenting make a difference for a kid's success? Does it really matter which college you go to? How can we get more kids to graduate college? These are the questions my guest on The Sydcast this week has spent years digging into to. Bruce Sacerdote, a prominent economist and professor at Dartmouth College who you may have read about in The New York Times, among other places, goes about answering these questions the old-fashioned way. Like a detective who studies the facts to get at the truth, Bruce digs into the data to provide insights on topics that almost everyone cares about. In this week’s episode of The Sydcast, we learn all about Bruce, some of the questions he asks and answers he finds, and even a few stories about sunken Spanish shipwrecks loaded with treasures.
