# 831: Glenn Hubbard: Dean of Columbia Business School on Adam Smith and Leadership

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Podcast: [This Sustainable Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670)
Published: 2025-08-05T02:13:13+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/831-glenn-hubbard
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I can't help but call Glenn "Dean Hubbard" since I met him as a student at Columbia Business School. That was 2005, making him one of the guests I've known the longest. I invited him to the podcast after seeing a talk he gave on the 300th birthday of Adam Smith. My recent learning more about Smith and other Enlightenment thinkers led me to find relevance between their thinking about how to live together without hurting each other and how we handle polluting and depleting today. I knew Glenn studied Smith for longer and in more depth than I have so I invited him to share about Smith. We started with his background, having worked with the White House. He then shared about Smith, in particular not seeing just his economics in  Wealth of Nations , also his philosophy in  Theory of Moral Sentiments . I shared some of the views I've been developing, though not comprehensively. He responded, politely and informatively, considering my inexperience expressing my ideas. He pushed back and educated. I couldn't help also sharing how much I'd learned at business school that was relevant to sustainability and I found little elsewhere, especially the social and emotional skills of leadership. I couldn't help building up my alma mater and the value of leadership in the task of changing culture. Glenn's home page at Columbia Business School Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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