Media Interviews/Podcasts

Podcasts & Video Interviews

  • Impact Point Podcast (Q2Impact): “Preserving Human Value in an AI-Dominated Future: A Conversation With Dr. Varun Grover,” October 2025. Watch Here
  • NPR Short Talks from the Hill: “AI Uses, Ethics and Limitations,” May 2025. Watch Here
  • Walton Be Epic Podcast: “Augmenting Artificial Intelligence through Cross-Functional Perspectives,” Interviewed by Dr. Brent Williams, March 25, 2024. Listen Here
  • Carolina Minute (AM Radio 1320): Featured in three shows on “Corporate IT Purchasing,” “Infomediaries on the Web,” and “IT and Changing Corporate Structure,” March 1999.

Articles & Interviews in Business/Trade Press

  • Walton Insights: “The Strategic Tradeoffs of Sharing User Data in Mobile Ecosystems” (Research Insights), February 2026.
  • Walton Insights: “Harmonizing Innovation: Orchestrating Enterprise Systems with Digital Tech” (with Sarah Luhtanen), September 2025.
  • NWA Democrat-Gazette: “Walmart Creates Jobs to Oversee AI,” Interview with Sarenah McKay, July 25, 2025.
  • The MODEMS: “Your Gadgets Are the New Gucci: How Tech Became a Fashion Flex,” by Tammy Saint, April 2025.
  • University of Arkansas News: “Fashion and Tech Now Intertwined, Researcher Argues,” April 2025.
  • Walton Insights: “Beyond Utility: How Fashion Drives Consumer Choices” (with Victoria Hernandez), March 2025.
  • Walton Insights: “Maintaining Trust During a Data Breach” (with Kaslyn Tidmore), January 2025.
  • Smartsheet: “Getting Started With Business Process Transformation,” August 2024.
  • Walton Insights: “Why Your Favorite App May Fail Abroad” (with Alyssa Riley), July 2024.
  • Walton Insights: “Not Just Good vs. Evil: A Balanced View of the Societal Impacts of AI” (with Kaslyn Tidmore), June 2024.
  • Walton Insights: “How the Pandemic Altered Mobile App Usage” (with Nabiha Khetani), April 2024.
  • The Wall Street Journal: “Why New Technology Is So Stressful at Work – and What to Do About It,” Interviewed by Sean Captain, September 10, 2023.
  • Business Information Systems Engineering: “Business Processes, Information Technology and Its Evolution in the Digital Age,” Interview with J. Mendling and M. Jans, August 2021.
  • Walton Insights: “Technology-Mediated Interruptions and Work-Life Balance,” November 12, 2021.
  • Walton Insights: “With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility,” October 23, 2020.
  • The Wall Street Journal: “Do You Resist New Tech at the Office?” (Discusses JMIS article “The IT Identity Threat”), 2020.
  • Walton Today: “EPIC Spotlight: Varun Grover,” Interview by Sandra Birchfield, May 2018.
  • Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “Retailer to Hold Security Seminar: Walmart’s Focus is to Protect Data,” April 7, 2018.
  • Talk Business & Politics: “Technology Specialists Identify Trends to Watch in 2018,” January 2018.
  • Anderson Observer: “Clemson Researcher Says More Tech Not Always Better,” September 4, 2016.
  • The Newsstand: “Research Challenges ‘Myths’ of More, Better, Technology,” Interview with Rick Uhlmann, September 2016.
  • Katz Business Magazine: “PhD Alumnus No.1 in the World for Research Productivity,” December 2015.
  • AIS Website: “10 Questions with Varun Grover,” Interview by David Agogo, November 3, 2015.
  • Arkansas News: “After a Data Breach, How Should Companies Respond,” August 22, 2015.
  • Clemson Magazines: “World-renowned IT Researcher Ties Technology’s Role to Business Growth,” Interview with Janette Robbins, Spring 2015.
  • Business Magazine Greenville: “Grover Recognized with Best Paper Award,” Spring 2012.
  • Anderson Independent Mail: “Clemson’s Grover Named Fellow of Association,” February 1, 2011.
  • Academy of Management (OCIS): “Meet the Stars: Varun Grover,” April 2007.
  • Kennedy Information: Interview with Bill Scheer, Editor, Global IT Services, May 2005.
  • Greenville News: “Technology Development in the Upstate,” February 2004.
  • Change Management Learning Center: “Business Process Change,” Interview with Ran Barett, November 2003.
  • IRMA Newsletter: “IT, Process Change and the New Organization,” Interview with Michele Rossi, September 2000.
  • Sun Times (Myrtle Beach): Interview on the Electronics Industry, August 2000.
  • Business & Economic Review: “Business Process Change in the 21st Century,” Interview with Jan K. Collins, January 2000.
  • The State Newspaper: Implications of the “Satellite Home Viewer Act,” November 1999.
  • Greenville News: “Wireless Startups,” August 1999.
  • CIO Magazine: “Privacy Infomediaries,” Interview with Polly Schneider, May 1999.
  • Working Council for Chief Information Officers: “IT Strategic Planning Process,” Interview with Kaori Ogino, November 13, 1998.
  • Infoserver: The Journal for Strategic Outsourcing: “IS Outsourcing,” Interview with Rita Mayer, October 7, 1998.

Expert Commentary & Other Mentions

  • Project on Leading Thinkers in IS: Interview with Kenneth Taylor on the “Current Status of the MIS Field,” (Project Director: Hugh Watson, University of Georgia), November 9, 1998.