Boss Class from The Economist

Andrew Palmer

Booking Overview

An interview-led management and workplace podcast that features founders, academics, executives, and subject-matter experts discussing practical leadership challenges, with the latest season focused on artificial intelligence at work. Suitable pitches include senior technology and business leaders, AI practitioners, management researchers, and founders with firsthand experience; booking difficulty is medium given the show's high editorial standards and credible but varied guest roster.

Metrics

Episodes: 12

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Gender skew: Neutral

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 4.2M subscribers

Instagram: 9.0M followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

podcasts@economist.com

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Host

Andrew Palmer - Management columnist and author of The Economist’s Bartleby column, focused on workplace and leadership issues.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Senior founders, technology executives, AI practitioners, leading management or business academics, and professionals with direct experience implementing or assessing workplace systems.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a significant technology or business venture, Held a senior role at a prominent technology or business organization, Published or conducted recognized academic research on management, work, or artificial intelligence

Recent Guest Discussions

Ethan Mollick - Generative AI At Work, Management In An Ai-enabled Workplace, And Preparing Employees And Organizations For Technological Change.

Tom Blomfield - Generative AI In The Workplace And The Practical Implications Of Introducing AI Into Management And Daily Work.

Bret Taylor - The Potential And Limits Of AI Agents, Competition Among AI Model-makers And Vendors, And Using AI For Management.

Recent Topics

Business, Management, Artificial Intelligence, Workplace, Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Boss Class from The Economist

TRAILER: Shire folk

September 10, 2026

Shire Folk is the story of how some of the most powerful people in America came to see Britain—and Islam—through the eyes of a fringe football hooligan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

June 24, 2026

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America from France in 1831 he saw a new kind of society. Not just a country, but an idea that would change the world. His book “Democracy in America” was a big influence on later generations of writers and thinkers, including The Economist’s US Editor John Prideaux. Now, 250 years after its birth, the vitality of that democracy is under question. In this series, John retraces the route Tocqueville took to find out how much of what inspired Tocqueville about...

S3 Bonus 1: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI

January 29, 2026

A conversation about the potential and limits of AI agents with the co-founder of Sierra, an agentic customer-service company. Bret Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI, tells Andrew Palmer about the imperfections of the technology, the competition between model-makers and vendors, and how he uses AI to manage.To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.If you’re already a subscriber to The Economist, you have full access to all our shows as part of your subscription....

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