Outsider / Insider

By: MIT Sloan
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  • Summary

  • Outsider/Insider is an MIT Sloan podcast. It was developed to provide tools for members of the MIT community—as well as other communities that resemble MIT in that they are workplaces or schools and they aspire for their diversity to be a source of strength. Another goal is what the co-hosts—the MIT sociologists and management professors Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan-- like to call “delight in discovery.”

    Ray and Ezra are quite open and frank about the difficulties that MIT and other universities have faced in realizing this aspiration, with a particular focus on the challenges that emerged in the fall of 2023 when community members from two distinct communities—those with a “natural affinity” with one of the two sides of the war that began on 10/7 (many Jews and Israelis, many Middle Easterners and North Africans, especially Palestinians)—felt unsupported at time of great need.

    Yet while Ray and Ezra’s conversations are meant to help address a pain point, they are also designed to be playful and inspiring. The playfulness is intellectual—the fun of wrestling with puzzles about the world and excitedly considering novel insights; but it’s also personal—the kind of teasing and poking at one another that good friends do. Ray and Ezra believe that the “outsider-insider” relationship they model is both rewarding and achievable for many people. Very likely, you too are blessed with cherished relationships like Ray and Ezra’s, even if you may not give call them by that name and even if you don’t reference academic research when you do so.

    See show notes and learn more on the Outsider Insider Substack page.
    MIT Sloan School of Management
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Episodes
  • Episode 3: The Promise and Challenge of Universities as Inclusive Communities

    Episode 3: The Promise and Challenge of Universities as Inclusive Communities
    Sep 10 2024

    Episode 3 is the third of three in which Ray and Ezra sketch a framework for how universities can realize their great promise for creating deep, meaningful and impactful connections between diverse people and avoid situations where community members feel devalued or threatened due to how their social identities are impacted by situations that arise within the community or by events in the world.

    For complete show notes, please visit the Substack page for this episode.

    Music from Blue Dot Sessions
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    47 mins
  • Episode 2: The Invisible Logic of Black Family Reunions

    Episode 2: The Invisible Logic of Black Family Reunions
    Sep 10 2024

    We’re excited to share the second episode of the Outsider/Insider podcast, co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Episode 2 of the Outsider/Insider podcast is the second of three in which Ray and Ezra sketch a framework for how universities can realize their great promise for creating deep, meaningful and impactful connections between diverse people and avoid situations where community members feel devalued or threatened due to how their social identities are impacted by situations that arise within the community or by events in the world.

    For complete show notes, please visit the Substack page for this episode.

    Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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    39 mins
  • Episode 1: The Invisible Logic of Jewish Peoplehood

    Episode 1: The Invisible Logic of Jewish Peoplehood
    Sep 10 2024

    We are very excited to share the pilot episode of the Outsider/Insider podcast, co-hosted by Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and produced by MIT Sloan School of Management. Kate O’Sullivan is the executive producer. You can find the show notes and opportunities to provide input) on the Outsider/Insider Substack site for this episode.

    This episode was produced in the spring of 2004 by Nora CB, with support from Sheena Ozaki and Pete Langston; it was recorded by Chris McDonnnell. Ray and Ezra are also grateful for input from many wonderful colleagues and friends in and outside MIT.

    For complete show notes visit: https://substack.com/@outsiderinsiderpodcast/p-148649631

    Music from Blue Dot Sessions
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    43 mins
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