Remember when the online talk show "Between Two Ferns" scored a visit to the White House? Host Zach Galifianakis chatted with President Obama about health care, among other things. The episode went viral, of course. It's the type of social media effort Macon Phillips applauds. In 2008, Phillips was the Obama campaign's digital guru. Once Obama won the election, Phillips became the man behind many of the digital innovations at the White House (change.gov and WhiteHouse.gov for example). Recently, Phillips talked with Dean of the Sanford School Kelly Brownell. Phillips is now using his digital talents with the State Department to revamp America's "digital diplomacy."

Gene Dodaro leads the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Part of his job is to provide policymakers with foresight about emerging challenges. 

Gene Dodaro is the Comptroller General of the United States. His agency works to ferret out waste, duplication, and fraud in government and they’ve realized savings in the billions of dollars. How do they do it? Dodaro sits down with Sanford's dean Kelly Brownell to discuss his work. "I am amazed at the lack .. of some fundamental management principles that need to be put in place in government," he says. "As a government we do not do a very good job of planning ahead. I'm always reminded of Winston Churchill's quote about the United States where he says 'The Americans will always do the right thing, but after they've tried everything else.'"