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The Business Lab is a sponsored podcast produced by Insights, the custom content division of MIT Technology Review. The Business Lab podcast features a 30-minute conversation with either an executive from the sponsor partner or a technologist with expertise in a relevant technology area. The discussion focuses on technology topics that matter to today’s enterprise decision makers. Laurel Ruma, MIT Technology Review’s custom content director for the United States, is the host.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Business Lab translates emerging technology into concrete questions about implementation, organizational change, cost, risk, and scale.
Business Lab follows emerging technology into the operating decisions that determine whether it works at scale. Laurel Ruma interviews people responsible for clinical-trial data, sustainable design, cloud infrastructure, digital banking, and agricultural systems.
Lettuce tip burn and cloud migration: your business curiosity brought a very large clipboard.
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Cloud migration is framed as an operating strategy for a highly regulated global institution.
It presents IT modernization as a practical enterprise move, tying better employee data access and customer experience to tighter control inside a highly regulated institution.
A concise look at how regenerative agriculture, cloud infrastructure, and collaboration intersect in modern farm science.
Laurel Ruma and Thomas Jung frame regenerative agriculture as an infrastructure problem as much as an agronomy one, tying soil health, data, and cloud computing into the same conversation.
A clear, practical look at how AI and data can reduce uncertainty in clinical trials.
Business Lab treats artificial intelligence and data as practical tools for life sciences teams facing clinical-trial complexity and related challenges.
A measured look at how banking culture shifts when technology becomes strategy.
Business Lab treats digital-first finance as a strategy question, not just an IT one. Laurel Ruma keeps the conversation grounded in the pressures shaping that shift, while Mike Dargan makes the case for engineering excellence, an inclusive culture, and a state-of-the-art…
A measured Mars mission interview that treats space data as practical evidence.
Business Lab presents the Emirates Mars mission as a practical study of what space data can show once it is analyzed, not simply collected. Laurel Ruma keeps the focus on the HOPE probe, while Mariam Youssef describes a mission designed to map Mars' atmosphere layer by layer and…
Vertical farming is treated as an operations story about food security, not a slogan.
Business Lab treats hydroponic vertical farming as an operations and food-security question, not a slogan. Laurel Aruma and Smart Acres lead project manager Apasith Pongsavan stay close to the machinery of the idea: why the United Arab Emirates demands a different model, how a…
A measured look at directed energy as practical technology.
Business Lab treats directed energy as a practical field rather than a distant promise, and that is where the episode earns its place. Laurel Ruma and Dr.
AI fits design best when sustainability is part of the brief.
Business Lab frames AI as a practical part of sustainable design, moving from modular housing and skyscrapers to manufactured products and factory floors.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
IT modernization starts behind the scenes.
Laurel Ruma interviews Thomas Jung, head of IT R&D at Syngenta, about using AI, machine learning, and cloud computing to advance regenerative agriculture and address global challenges like climate change and food security.
Host Laurel Ruma interviews Arnab Chatterjee about how AI and data are transforming clinical trials and drug development.
Micron changes “it cannot be done” into “how can it be done?” before developing memory technologies over five years.
Automotive data can become an insurance product when vehicle performance and driver behavior are shared externally.
Mike Dargan, UBS's Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, discusses how the bank is transforming through technology, focusing on agile methodologies, cloud migration, engineering excellence, and sustainable software practices.
JPMorgan Chase reorganized around 100 products to make account-opening decisions faster.
Raj Savor explains how FirstNet keeps first responders connected through hurricanes, floods, mobile towers, and emerging drone coverage.
This episode features an interview with Mariam Youssef, a data analyst for the Emirates Mars mission, discussing the HOPE probe's goals to map Mars' atmosphere and its impact on UAE science.
Laurel Ruma interviews Apasith Pongsavan of Smart Acres about hydroponic vertical farming in the UAE, which uses 90% less water and no pesticides to address food security.
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An MIT Technology Review podcast episode featuring Mike Haley, VP of Research at Autodesk, exploring how artificial intelligence is changing the design process across architecture, manufacturing, and product development.