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EPISODE · Jun 30, 2026 · 27 MIN

What "Creative Differences" Really Means With Spencer Harrison

from INSEAD Knowledge Podcast · host INSEAD

Two words appear in entertainment headlines more than almost any other excuse, but are they doing more harm than good?When a director exits a film "due to creative differences", everyone reads it the same way: something happened, and we're not meant to know what. Spencer Harrison, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, calls it the "aloha" of Hollywood, a phrase flexible enough to mean hello or goodbye, used precisely because its vagueness protects everyone involved. In the latest episode of the INSEAD Knowledge podcast, he explains what the research reveals about whether that protection actually works.

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