The Global Possibility Network (GPN) Podcast

Andrew Babson

The quarterly podcast of the Global Possibility Network, a research to practice initiative of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, explores the science of possibility development—the process of imagining and realizing possibilities—through interviews with compelling personalities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Global Possibility Network (GPN) Podcast

Episodes (2)

May 21, 2024 Robert Frank on the role of luck in success, the myth of meritocracy, and implications for youth development
Apr 15, 2023 Randy and Hayley Ornstein on early career possibility development

The Global Possibility Network (GPN) Podcast

May 21, 2024
53¼ minutes
73 MB

On this episode of the Global Possibility Network (GPN) Podcast, Robert (Bob) Frank, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management Emeritus at Cornell, joins host Andrew Babson to talk about his recent work on the role of luck in success, and its implications for policy, economics, and society, especially youth. The episode was inspired by Andrew's admiration for Bob's 2017 book, Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy (Princeton UP), which he had assigned for his courses at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Frank's prominence as a scholar and public intellectual...

The Global Possibility Network (GPN) Podcast

Robert Frank on the role of luck in success, the myth of meritocracy, and implications for youth development

Andrew Babson

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