Hear the Conversation 14:44 – 8.4 mb mp3 Organizations are increasingly structuring themselves around teams, and this change in the nature of work presents many challenges and opportunities for future managers. Michigan State University is offering organizations the opportunity to participate in a new executive development initiative. The Broad College of Business and the Department [...]

Hear the Conversation 22:01 – 12.6 mb mp3 Spartan Dawgs Tim Bograkos, Todd Duckett and Andre Hutson return to talk about passion. “Passion is the backbone and heartbeat of everything we do,” says Duckett. “Sports are passion-driven. Now that we’re not playing our sports competitively anymore, we need to transfer our passion into our professional [...]

Hear the Conversation 33:52 – 19.3 mb mp3 Spartan Dawgs Andre Hutson, Tim Bograkos, and Todd Duckett talk about their experiences with their coaches, Nick Saban and Tom Izzo. “I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into with Coach Izzo,” says Hutson. “Tom Crean mostly recruited me, and I never met Coach Izzo [...]

Hear the Conversation 37:34 – 21.5 mb mp3 Spartan Dawgs Todd Duckett, Tim Bograkos, and Andre Hutson discuss how each of them went through the recruiting process. And they talk about how that process has changed to the point where “high school kids are announcing their choices on ESPN,” says Bograkos. Kids now put their [...]

Hear the Conversation 19:24 min – 11.1 mb mp3 Former Spartan basketball player Lauren Aitch joins Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis for a conversation about how being a Spartan athlete has impacted her thriving entrepreneurial spirit. She says all the discipline required to succeed as a Spartan [...]

Hear the Show 54 min – 30 mb mp3 Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio and with MSU vice president for research and graduate studies Stephen Hsu. Dantonio talks about developing leaders on his team and about the university-wide chemistry [...]

Hear the Conversation 34:51 – 19.9 mb mp3 2000 national champion Spartan hoopster Andre Hutson joins Todd Duckett and Tim Bograkos for the second Spartan Dawgs podcast conversation. The three former Michigan State University athletes talk more about what brought them back to East Lansing after their athletic careers ended. All three Dawgs talk about [...]

Hear the Conversation 19:21 min – 11 mb mp3 Michigan State University Spartans head football coach Mark Dantonio visits with MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis. The trio’s wide-ranging discussion touches on the too-early specialization of kids participating in youth sports, leadership, and what being a Spartan really means. [...]

Hear the Conversation 24:07 min – 13.8 mb mp3 John Madden directs the world-renowned Spartan Marching Band at Michigan State University, and next year will be John’s 25th year on the MSU faculty. John is as green and white as they come; he and all his siblings are MSU alumni. “MSU is my home,” Madden [...]

Hear the Conversation 26:22 – 15 mb mp3 In their inaugural Spartan Dawgs podcast former Spartan athletes Tim Bograkos and Todd Duckett set the premise for this new podcast series. “We’re former MSU athletes who have progressed into life,” says Duckett. “We have families and businesses, and we give back to our community.” The pair’s [...]