Tippie College of Business

Welcome to the Tippie Leads podcast, stories from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business that will change the way you work and lead.

I'm your host, Nick Westergaard.

I teach at Tippie and lead our Story Lab program.

Each season of Tippie Leads, we focus on a grand challenge in today's changing world

of

work.

But every time we bring AI into the process, we're making another choice.

What information are we willing to share? In this episode, we're asking a question that touches everything from our personal lives to our work.

Welcome to the Tippie Leads podcast, stories from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business that will change the way you work and lead.

I'm your host, Nick Westergaard.

I teach at Tippie and lead our Story Lab program.

Thanks to Pat Johanns, Olivia Schroeder, our producer, Kira Ellerbrook, and the Tippie Marketing Communication team for making this episode possible.

Until next time.

This has been Tippie Leads, a podcast from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business.

To learn more about our faculty guests, their research, and more, go to tippie.uiowa.edu forward slash tippieleads.

If you like this episode, share it with a friend or coworker.

A multi-million dollar donation to the University of Iowa's Business College, alongside a matching gift challenge to generate even more funds, will support a student mental health and success initiative.

The UI Tippie College of Business announced in a news release it has received $3.5 million from the DeWolf Family Foundation of Cedar Rapids for Tippie Thrive, a peer-led mental health program embedded in courses and with outside programming.

The donation and a two-to-one matching gift challenge with a commitment from the foundation that reaches $500,000 will establish an endowment for the initiative's future And fund a dedicated home and student-facing storefront for Tippie Thrive.

The initiative will be renamed after Chris and Susie DeWolf for their gift, the release stated.

Welcome to the Tippie Leads podcast, stories from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business that will change the way you work and lead.

I'm your host, Nick Westergaard.

I teach at Tippie and lead our Story Lab program.

Each season of Tippie Leads, we focus on a grand challenge in today's changing world of work.

This season on Tippy Leads, we're exploring the big questions AI forces us to ask.

Previously, we started with one of the biggest questions.

Will AI take my job? Now we're turning to a question that's a little more immediate.

How are we actually using AI? To explore this, I'm joined by Ken Brown, Tippie Children Professor of Management, whose recent survey looked at how people are using AI in their everyday lives and at work, and what those patterns can tell us about how we're adapting to this new technology.

Okay.

Well, you're, you are a graduate, uh, you were a business analytics and information systems student at the Tippie College of Business, graduated with that business degree.

So Tyson tells me, I mean, you can s- sell people, uh, you're just a great salesman, and so you're probably gonna try to sell me like a condo in Antarctica or something, you know, during this show or something.

[laughs] What's your line here to talking to, uh-

Welcome to the Tippie Leads podcast, stories from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business that will change the way you work and lead.

I'm your host, Nick Westergaard.

I teach at Tippie and lead our Story Lab program.

I'm excited to spend this season exploring these questions with you.

Thanks for listening and go Hawks.

This has been Tippie Leeds, a podcast from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business.

To learn more about our faculty guests, their research and more, go to tippie.uiowa.edu forward slash Tippie Leeds.

If you like this episode, share it with a friend or coworker.