About the show

What does it mean to be a strategic owner? How might it matter if something is owned in the public market or, by a founder or family? What about the time horizon, and what does it mean to say you are invested for the long term? Beyond a single business’ success, do the patterns of ownership of businesses across the country make a difference in the ways these businesses run, whether mom-and-pop shops or multi-national corporations?

These hidden patterns of ownership are an invisible current with implications on the products we buy, the companies we work at, and the communities we live in. This podcast, “The Owner’s Box” is about telling that story.

Episodes

  • Tactics from the Owner’s Box: Social Discount

    May 9th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  9 mins 22 secs
    business, cliff asness, performance, purpose, social good, st. louis, virtue, washu

    In today’s tactics from “The Owner’s Box,” we explore whether one can and should put a number…. to what it means to balance social purpose and business performance.

    Ultimately, how much overlap you see between the financial maximization of returns and the non-financial drivers of business likely shapes what you see as possible

  • Episode 2: Creative Control with Jeremy King

    April 25th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 39 secs
    bluey, business, creativity, food, london

    Ownership dynamics in a creative industry with special guest Jeremy London.

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    Tactics from the Owner’s Box: Succession

    April 11th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 15 secs

    Between full episodes, we want to take you back into the owner’s box for mini-episode insights into what it means to build the skills of strategic ownership.

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    Episode 1: Transitioning with Soul

    March 28th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 36 secs

    This podcast will explore questions of what it means to be a strategic owner -- inside and outside the family firm context -- all using a mix of interviews and insights drawn from experience and academic research. "Transitioning with Soul" -- is our first episode and features Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman's, Danny Meyer of USHG Acquisition Corp. Shake Shack and USHG, LLC, and Bo Burlingham of Forbes.

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    Season 1 Trailer

    March 26th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  1 min 17 secs

    What does it mean to be a strategic owner? Find out with host, Peter Boumgarden, Director of the Koch Center for Family Enterprise at WashU Olin School of Business.