This Week in Business

Chris Slowe, Chief Technology Officer and Founding Engineer at Reddit, joins hosts Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss his career and how Reddit was founded on Bay Area Ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, Amazon Go opened its doors in Seattle with cameras and sensors instead of cashiers, shopping carts or checkout lines. Host Dan Loney talks with Barbara Kahn, Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, and Ryan Hamilton, Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University to discuss how this store could define the future of retail on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new comprehensive report by the national Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, concludes vaping e-cigarettes containing nicotine can be addictive. It also states this may put teenagers who use them at a high risk of smoking. Host Dan Loney talks with Adam Leventhal, Author of this report and Director of the University of California's Health, Emotion & Addiction Laboratory, and David Savitz, Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health who helped put this report together, to discuss the findings on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Home Depot became the latest business to offer its employees bonuses allegedly in response to the tax overhaul. Host Dan Loney talks with Alan Auerbach, Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California Berkeley, and Daniel Hemel, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School to discuss why corporations are passing out bonuses instead of raising wages and the financial impact of the new law on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Damon Jones, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Ivan Barankay to discuss his latest study "What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do?" on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Bon Ku, Assistant Dean for Health and Design at Jefferson University and TEDx Speaker, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss how JeffDESIGN (College Design Track) teaches students to apply design thinking to solve healthcare challenges and redesign healthcare systems, services, spaces and medical devices on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Trump Administration recently announced that it will impose a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels. Host Dan Loney talks with Mauro Guillen, Director of Wharton's Lauder Institute, and Matt Gold, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, to discuss the tariffs which has some worried it will cost jobs in the solar energy industry and hurt the nation's push toward renewable energy on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aaron Terrazas, Senior Economist at Zillow, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss what’s ahead for the real estate market in 2018, some of the barriers to continued growth—including a lack of inventory, and his thoughts on Amazon HQ2's city selection process on The Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Kingsbury, Head Coach of the Canadian Olympic Women’s Curling Team, joins hosts Cade Massey, Shane Jensen, Adi Wyner, and Eric Bradlow to discuss the sport of curling, from analytics to preparation for the Olympics on Wharton Moneyball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New York City filed a lawsuit against the distributors and manufacturers of opioid prescription drugs, including Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and McKesson. As the manufacturer-to-consumer pipeline is muddied, recent attention is focused on how the recent opioid crisis could have been prevented. Host Dan Loney talks with William Evans, Professor and Department Chair Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, and Ethan Lieber, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss their recent study "How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic” to take a look at some of the causes and potential remedies of this crisis on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Conference Board recently released it's "C-Suite Challenge™ 2018: Reinventing the Organization for the Digital Age", polling more than 1,000 CEO and C-Suite executives. Rebecca Ray, Executive Vice President of the Knowledge Organization at The Conference Board, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Iwan Barankay to discuss the results of the survey and what weighs heavily on CEO's minds for 2018 on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Donald Trump gave the keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, but the Europeans were trying to counterbalance the U.S. in the days leading up to this speech with messages against European growth. Host Dan Loney talks with Olivier Chatain, Professor at HEC Paris and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Steven Silvia, Professor of International Service at American University's School of International Service, to discuss what leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been promoting on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joanna Barsh, Director Emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of the Centered Leadership Project, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss her book "Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges" to help people succeed in their careers when things don't pan out as expected on Work and Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author Daniel Pink joins host Dan Loney to discuss his latest book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" which helps people analyze their own perfect timing for productivity on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carl Schramm, a Professor at Syracuse University, joins hosts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Saikat Chaudhuri to discuss his new book "BURN THE BUSINESS PLAN: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do" on Mastering Innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this month it was revealed that potentially every personal computer, mobile device and other electronics are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre digital attack now and perhaps for years to come. Host Dan Loney talks with Andrea Matwyshyn, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, and Mike Chapple, Academic Director of the Master of Science Program in Business Analytics at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss what lead to this vulnerability, the anticipated risks, and what's being done to mitigate them on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Della Clark, President and CEO of The Enterprise Center, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss their mission to cultivate and invest in minority entrepreneurs to inspire working together for economic growth in communities on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ashley Dombkowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Before Brands, joins host Karl Ulrich to discuss her consumer-focused product platform focused on health and wellness for parents and families on Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon released a narrowed down list of the twenty potential candidates for its second headquarters. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeffrey Shulman, Professor of Marketing at the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, and Tom Buerkle, Associate Editor at Thomson-Reuters News Service, to discuss what cities made the list and why on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Trump Administration recently said it will allow states to compel people to work or prepare for jobs as a requirement to get Medicaid, allowing states to cut off people unless they prove they have a job, are students, caregivers, volunteers, or participate in another approved form of "community engagement", or are severely disabled. Host Dan Loney talks with MaryBeth Musumeci, Associate Director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, and David Super, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, to discuss what this means for those who currently depend on this program on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new study shows that the expansion of Medicaid keeps rural hospitals from closing in states like Colorado, which added some four hundred thousand people to their program. Thirty two states expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, not only cutting the the uninsured by huge margins but making hospitals six times more likely to keep open with the increase in insured patients. Host Dan Loney talks with Richard Lindrooth and Gregory Tung, Authors of the study and Professors in the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy in the University of Colorado's Colorado School of Public Health, and Robert Field, Lecturer at The Wharton School and Professor of Law at Drexel University, to discuss the study's findings and how they may play into the future of Medicaid on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the NFL plateauing as a business? Daniel Roberts, Sports Business Writer at Yahoo! Finance and Hosts of the video and podcast series Sportsbook, joins hosts George Perry and Ken Shropshire to discuss how various events over the past year such as athlete protests have affected public opinion of the NFL and it's subsequent impact on weekly viewers on The Wharton Sports Business Show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On a recent Saturday morning, people in Hawaii received a cellphone early warning alert: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” The message was a mistake allegedly caused by an employee hitting the wrong button and it took 38 minutes for the system to send out a new message to let people know of the error. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeannette Sutton, Director of the Risk and Disaster Communication Center at the University of Kentucky, and Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Denver's Department of Communication, to discuss how emergency alert systems, the distrust this mistake could create, and what can be done to both ensure the system works well and reassure people whose lives may depend on it on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One year ago women from all over the U.S. marched to protest the election of Donald Trump and to bring attention to issues that are important to them. They marched again this weekend, for some of the same reasons—as well as newer issues like the #metoo movement. Host Laura Zarrow talks with organizers of the Philadelphia Women's March Emily Cooper Morse and Deja Lynn Alvarez on Women@Work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Banks and financial institutions are facing a brighter new year with the potential rolling back of the Dodd-Frank Act and the new tax cut. Host Dan Loney talks with Peter Conti-Brown and David Zaring, Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics professors, to discuss what we can expect from the industry in 2018 on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elizabeth Anderson, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara to discuss her book "Private Government: How Employers Rule our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)" on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Graham Allison, Professor of Government at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism, joins host Jeremy Schwartz to discuss his latest book "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?" on Behind the Markets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brian Tillotson, Systems Technology Chief Engineer for Boeing Research and Technology and a Boeing Senior Technical Fellow, joins hosts Saikat Chaudhuri and Harbir Singh to discuss innovation at the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems on Mastering Innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Dart, Retail Specialist, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss his new book "Retail's Seismic Shift: How to Shift Faster, Respond Better, and Win Customer Loyalty" on Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The City of New York recently filed suit against the 5 biggest oil companies claiming their refusal to acknowledge their affect on climate change has costed the city billions in cleanup efforts from increased super storms over the years. Host Dan Loney talks with David Hunter, Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, and Thomas P. Lyon, Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), to discuss this landmark case and whether or not the courts will proceed with a trial on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lorie White and Mike Jackson, respective Partners at Grant Thornton LLP, join host Bob Lane to discuss the impact of the Trump Administration's Tax Reform bill on Real Estate transactions on The Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Margot Brandenburg, Founder of MyStrongHome, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sandi Hunt to discuss their mission to protect homes and communities from hurricanes and other extreme weather while helping homeowners potentially save on insurance premiums on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Made a New Year's Resolution to find a new job? Michael Platt, Director of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and Professor of Marketing, Neuroscience, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss how neuroscience impacts New Year's Resolutions and career decision making processes on Career Talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Immigration issues have been an important issue of the Trump Administration's first year in office. Host Dan Loney talks with Sarah Paoletti, Director of Penn Law's Transnational Legal Clinic, and Cyrus Mehta, Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC, to discuss the potential moves surrounding DACA and immigration in the year ahead on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine if all the data in the world was suddenly made available to everyone--with all of that information at our fingertips we would be able to solve even the most complex problems, right? Brett Hurt, Co-Founder and CEO of data.world, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss how he's trying to do this with his newest startup on Work and Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Rob Coneybeer is LIVE from CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Rob talks with Chris Heiser, Co-Founder and CEO of Renovo, about his startup that specializes in highly automated vehicle technology on this special episode of Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Dan Loney leads a discussion on Entitlement Programs - first we look into the past at where these programs came from with Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Author of "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society,” and Edward Berkowitz, Professor of History and of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts& Sciences. Then, we look at the future of these programs under the current Trump Administration post-Republican Tax Bill with Tim Smeeding, Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Author of "SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well Being," and Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. We examine some of the potential effects of big cuts to programs such as Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, among others, on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Rob Coneybeer is LIVE from CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Rob talks with Dominic Dobson, Co-Founder/COO, VR Motion Corporation, about how this former professional race car driver co-founded a startup developing Virtual Reality Automotive software on this special episode of Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Rob Coneybeer is LIVE from CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Rob talks with Jeff Joseph, CTA’s VP of Communications & Strategic Partnerships, about what's new on the floor of this year's CES on this special episode of Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Iceland has taken a proactive approach of eliminating gender pay gaps by enacting a new law requiring every company to report their salary structure every 3 years to prove they do not have any pay gaps. Host Dan Loney talks with Janice Bellace, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and of Management at the Wharton School, Janice Maddon, Professor of Regional Science and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Thorgerdur Einarsdottir, Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Iceland, to discuss how the law came to be on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Rob Coneybeer is LIVE from CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Rob talks with Jim Adler, Managing Director and Board Member of Toyota AI Ventures and Vice President at Toyota Research Institute, about Toyota’s corporate venture capital subsidiary and autonomous vehicle development on this special episode of Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The MacArthur Foundation just completed it's inaugural 100&Change Competition, a “competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve a critical problem of our time." Host Dan Loney talks with prize winners Sherrie Estin, EVP for Global Impact for Sesame Workshop, and David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, to discuss their partnership to “implement an evidence-based, early childhood development intervention designed to address the “toxic stress” experienced by children in the Syrian response region—Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria.” UPenn’s High Impact Philanthropy expert, Katherina Rosqueta, was one of the judges and joins us along with Cecilia Conrad, Managing Director of the MacArthur Foundation, on [email protected] info - https://www.macfound.org/programs/100change/strategy/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Annacone, Legendary Tennis Coach for Pete Sampras, Tim Henman, Roger Federer, etc and Author of "Coaching For Life: A Guide to Playing, Thinking and Being the Best You Can Be", and Xeno Muller, Former Gold Medalist in Rowing and current Coach at Elite-Rowing-Coach.com, join host Christian Terwiesch to discuss the future innovation in the coaching industry on Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wixen Music Publishing, publisher of songs by Tom Petty, Neil Young and others, is suing Spotify for $1.6 billion in compensation for the use of their music without proper licensing and compensation. Host Dan Loney talks with Erin Jacobson, Music Attorney in Beverly Hills, and Lawrence Gelburd, Wharton Alum and Music Producer, to discuss the details of the lawsuit and Spotify's history of legal trouble on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of the Interior have been repealing various Obama era policies as the last year wound to a close. Host Dan Loney talks with Eric Orts, Director of Wharton's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, and Daniel Kammen, Founding Director of the University of California Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, to discuss the changes led by Scott Pruit, and whether these changes put U.S. businesses at a disadvantage compared to those in countries that support environmentally friendly policies and renewable resources on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Terry Spahr, Executive Producer, and Travis Rieder, Assistant Director of Education Initiatives & Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, join host Dan Loney to discuss the documentary "8 Billion Angels" about the consumption rate of the earth's previous and limited resources on [email protected] Info: http://8billionangels.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The back and forth between US and Korea leaders took a turn last week when Kim Jong-un declared he had a nuclear launch button on his desk and President Trump responded with a tweet that his button was bigger. Host Dan Loney speaks with Richard Dasher, Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University, Jacques DeLisle, Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sung-Yoon Lee, Professor in Korean Studies at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, to discuss this "hot button" issue and how the Trump Administration is handling it on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Uber was dealt a huge setback last month when it was declared a transportation business by the European Union's highest court. The ride sharing giant had tried to claim it was a technology platform that connected drivers with riders. Host Dan Loney talks with John Paul MacDuffie, Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI) at Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Dr. Valerio De Stefano, Professor of Law at the University of Leuven in Belgium, to discuss what impact this ruling will have on Uber and similar companies in the EU but also the US on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tens of thousands of Iranians have been protesting the government over the last few weeks in large part over the country's bad economy and a recent jump in the prices of basic goods. The crisis seems to be growing as many are calling for the ouster of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among others. Host Dan Loney talks with Philip Nichols, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, Nader Habibi, Professor of Economics at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, to discuss the economic and political impact of these protests on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last month the Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai, repealed net neutrality rules, which prohibit high-speed internet service providers from slowing down or stopping website delivery. Host Dan Loney talks with Kevin Werbach, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, and Christiaan Hogendorn, Wharton Alum and Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University, to discuss the implications of this ruling, including who will benefit from it, on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.