Joe Nocera and Kate O'Leary: Unpacking HBO's Succession (Season 4).

Joe Nocera and Kate O'Leary: Unpacking HBO's Succession (Season 4).

Author: Evan Epstein December 11, 2023 Duration: 55:18
This is our 4th and final episode dissecting the HBO show Succession from a corporate governance perspective. It has been a lot of fun delivering this series. For this episode, we are joined by Joe Nocera, a distinguished business journalist and author known for his insightful and often critical views on various aspects of business and economics. Joe’s career in journalism has been marked by various notable roles, including at leading publications such as Esquire, GQ, Fortune Magazine, NYT and Bloomberg. Kate O’Leary, the Global Executive Litigation Counsel at GE, also comments from the perspective of an experienced in-house lawyer who deals with governance challenges in the real world. We covered issues from the first season of Succession on E98 (in May ‘23), second season on E102 (in June ‘23) and third season on E109 (in Sept ‘23). If you have not heard those episodes, please feel free to check them out. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can also now contribute as a Patron on the link patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod and subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com This podcast is sponsored by the American College of Governance Counsel.

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