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The IVY Podcast

Nov 30, 2017

Within almost any industry or field, it can be easy to feel dissatisfied, trapped, or otherwise locked into the same career path — regardless of your personal goals.

Which is why serial entrepreneur Jeff Hittner founded Your Project X, a social venture dedicated to helping people (re)discover their passions and build...


Nov 28, 2017

Robert Battle is the third artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the NYC-based modern dance company founded in 1958. Seven years into his term, Robert is at the forefront of a company that has always been an incubator for work that focuses on social justice and social change.

This is most evident...


Nov 24, 2017

Why does paying for things often feel like it causes physical pain? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something now just because we’ve overpaid for it before? How do our emotions shape our financial behavior?

These are just a few of the many questions we asked Dan Ariely, the world-renowned behavioral economist,...


Nov 24, 2017

What’s it like to work in the White House as a presidential speechwriter — at the age of 24, no less? That’s what we asked David Litt, who did just that when he entered the White House in 2011, serving as one of President Obama’s speechwriters until 2016. Described as the “comic muse for the president,”...


Nov 16, 2017

Every day, YouTube garners over one billion views — and every minute, over 300 hours of video are uploaded to the platform by people across the globe. To get a better understanding of what this means for the world’s rapidly changing media industry, IVY hosted an Ideas Night with YouTube’s Chief Business Officer,...