This Week in Business

How is the Language Education industry changing, and what innovations can we expect in the future? Host Christian Terwiesch talks with Christina Frei, Executive Director of Language Instruction for the University of Pennsylvania, and John Hass, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Rosetta Stone, to hear their insights on this episode of Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amy Liu, Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss how a broader vision of city revitalization efforts should include all residents, not just the wealthy, and some ways this can be accomplished on The Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cathy O'Neil, Data Scientist, joins host Dan Loney to discuss the "dark side" of big data as outlined in her book "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality, and Threatens": our daily lives are now being governed by algorithms and not humans, and as such she urges policy makers for more regulation over their design on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Nunzio Quacquarelli, Wharton Alum and CEO of QS, about how his higher education research, rankings, and student enrollment company helps foster budding entrepreneurs that are helping to create new solutions for learning access on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Tazeen Sharif, Manager of the Office of International Affairs at Ajman University and Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, about her perspective as a female engineer in an emerging, gender-empowered world on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Steve White, Digital Solutions Manager at Deakin University, about the Deakin Genie, a new virtual assistant for college students that provides personalized services around their individual learning path on this special episode of [email protected] Genie In Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRPuU53E74&feature=youtu.beLearn More: http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/media-releases/articles/deakin-genie-digital-student-assistant-wins-major-global-business-award Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Oren Jackman, Co-Founder and CEO of examPAL, about his interactive, online college test prep course based in Tel-Aviv that is customized to each user's way of answering questions on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Jerry Wind, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School and Organizer of the Reimagine Education conference, and Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan, Executive Director of Academic Innovation at the Penn Graduate School of Education, about the formation of the conference five years ago, it's aim to increase access to high quality education, and how they will be judging this year's "Ed Tech" competitors on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Brittany Bir, COO of 42, about the tuition-free immersive coding school with campuses in Silicon Valley and Paris on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Ivan Ostrowicz, CEO of Domoscio, about the role of Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science in education to help personalize learning in the future on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Duncan Ivison, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Syndey, about how he is working on solutions to maintain Australia's policy in assisting students to enter college for free and pay tuition back once they've earned a certain salary on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Jeff Dieffenbach, Associate Director of MIT's Integrated Learning Initiative, about the outdated model of one-professor-to-500-student-lecture-hall and how he encourages innovation in education to adapt to smaller group interactions around digital tools on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Jonathan Rochelle, Product Director at Google and C-Founder of Google Drive, about how Google Classroom is providing teachers with the tools to "teach better" using virtual reality "Expeditions" on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The importance of a properly functioning governance board is more relevant today than ever with the significant changes taking place in the healthcare market. Host Jeff Voigt leads a panel discussion on how these changes to health care relate to issues such as disruptions in reimbursement, effects on disruptive technologies such as gene therapy, and the rapid consolidation of both providers and payers – and antitrust issues related to this - on The Business of Health Care. Panelists include: Jonathan Kalodimos, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Finance at Oregon State University's College of Business; Michael Peregrine, Partner at McDermott Will & Emery; and Thomas Tsai, MD, MPH, Surgeon and Health Policy Researcher in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The International Olympic Committee has banned Russia from the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, however its athletes are allowed to participate as long as they do it without the Russian flag and the team uniforms. Host Dan Loney talks with Robert Boland, Sports Lawyer and Athletics Integrity Officer at Penn State University, and Andrew Zimbalist, Professor of Economics at Smith College and Author of "Rio 2016: Olympic Myths, Hard Realities", to discuss this decision and how it might impact the Olympic games on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bitcoin rose to an astonishing $11,000 value last week (and is now sitting around $17,000) - astonishing for a currency which had a $1 value just six years ago. The decentralized payment network has seen ups and downs before, leading some to ask whether it's a good investment. Host Dan Loney speaks with Kevin Werbach, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, and Christian Catalini, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss why Bitcoin has hit this high mark and what this means for investors on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School debuts a new show, Mastering Innovation. Hosted by Saikat Chaudhuri, Harbir Singh, and Nicolaj Siggelkow, Directors of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, we look at how established organizations foster the kind of innovation that keeps them going strong year after year. In this premiere episode, we speak with Ryan Miller, Senior Vice President and Design & Delivery Leader of Wells Fargo's Innovation Group, about how Wells Fargo is fostering banking innovation on Mastering Innovation.https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/mastering-innovation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier last week, President Donald Trump announced he was signing two presidential proclamations to the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Host Dan Loney speaks with Eric Orts, Wharton professor and Director of Wharton's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, and Robert Keiter, Director of the Wallace Stegner Center of Land, Resources, and the Environment at University of Utah's College of Law, to discuss the impact and public reaction of this decision and why it's being sent to the courts for a final decision on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CVS is merging with AETNA in a $69 billion deal that could change the health care industry. The drug store giant's plans reportedly include pushing the health insurance company's 22 million enrollees towards their clinics rather than hospitals. Host Dan Loney speaks with Mark Pauly, Professor of Health Care Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, and Robert Field, Health Care Management Department Lecturer at the Wharton School and Professor of Law and Public Health at Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Dornsife School of Public Health, to discuss the merger's potential impacts on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of The Aspen Institute and Author of "Steve Jobs" and other famous biographies, joins host Dan Loney to discuss his latest book "Leonardo da Vinci" on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stanley Silverman, Founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership, joins host Mike Useem and Anne Greenhalgh to discuss why "we've always done it that way" should not be part of your management philosophy and how boards of directors should respond when allegations of harassment – sexual or otherwise – come to light on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lisa Thomas-Laury, Former News Anchor for Philadelphia's Action News, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her new book "On Camera And Off: When the News is Good and When It's Not" on Women@Work. Lisa talks to us about what it was like to be a trailblazer as one of the few African-American women in television news in the late 1970s, and how she had to face her own extraordinary challenge after being struck with a rare nerve disorder—one that would interrupt her career and ultimately lead to her retirement after nearly 40 years at the number one television news outlet in the Philadelphia tri-state area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ted Qualli, Executive Director of the Police Athletic League of Philadelphia, joins host Sandi Mauro Hunt and Nick Ashburn to discuss how the PAL builds positive relationships between youth, the communities in which they live, and the dedicated men and women of the Philadelphia Police Department by offering sports and other programs to youth in 17 local PAL centers on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Merz, Creative Producer at Universal Orlando, and Nick Franklin, Former EVP of Next Generation Experience at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, join host Christian Terwiesch to discuss innovation in the theme park industry and what theme parks of the future could look like on Business Radio's newest show, Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stuart Weitzman, Shoe Designer and Founder of Stuart Weitzman shoes, joins host Barbara Kahn to discuss his journey from Wharton Alum to luxury shoe designer on Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Insights: Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, talks with host Jeremy Schwartz and guest Jeff Weniger of WisdomTree about his 2018 Outlook for the US Financial Markets on Behind the Markets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Ajit Pai, is moving to repeal net neutrality rules put in place by the Obama administration. Telecom companies fought the rules, which prohibit high-speed internet service providers from slowing down or stopping website delivery. Host Dan Loney talks with Christopher Yoo, Director of Penn Law's Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, and Jennifer Golbeck, Director of the Social Intelligence Lab at the University of Maryland, to discuss the implications as well as timing of this move by the FCC on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New York Times reported Rex Tillerson may be on his way out as Secretary of State as the White House looks to tap CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. Tillerson has faced heavy criticism lately as career diplomats are leaving in droves and many important State Department jobs go unfilled. Host Dan Loney talks with William Burke-White, Professor at Penn Law and Inaugural Director of Perry World House, and Alan Henrikson, Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy join us to discuss the latest speculations on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time Inc has been purchased by Iowa-based media company Meredith, in a $2.8 billion dollar deal. Some of that money came from the billionaire Republican party mega-donors Charles and David Koch, leading some to worry about the editorial influence they could have on the publication. Host Dan Loney talks with Bill Grueskin, Professor of Professional Practice at the Colombia Journalism School and Former Managing Editor of WSJ.com, Stephen Bloom, Professor at University of Iowa's School of Journalism, and Rick Edmonds, Media Business Analyst at Poynter Institute, to discuss what is at stake for Time, Inc on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patrice Banks, Founder of Girls Auto Clinic, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her new book "Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide", a do-it-herself manual for auto maintenance intended to help women and men who are nervous about car repairs grab the wheel and taken control on Women@Work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin Whitener, Director of Pricing, Reporting and Analytics at Ally Bank, joins host Bob Lane to discuss all things mortgage-related with tips from his book "The Mortgage Playbook" on The Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deepak Sekar, Founder and CEO of Chowbotics, joins Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss his food robotics company that eliminates repetitive tasks like meal prep and allows more time for humans to be creative in cooking on Bay Area Ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sanyin Siang, Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics at Duke University, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss her recent book "The Launch Book", encouraging people to be braver about making changes in their lives, aka launching, on Work and Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a "smart pill" that tells doctors if and when patients take their medications. This pill could save billions of dollars in medical expenses, but it raises a lot of concerns among privacy experts. Host Dan Loney speaks with Robert Field, Lecturer at Wharton's Health Care Management Department and Professor of Health Management at Drexel University's Kline School of Law, and Holly Fernandez Lynch, Professor of Medical Ethics at the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn, to discuss the issues surrounding the digital pill technology on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, about how we can balance the good and the bad that comes along with the innovation of new technologies on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Gigi Sohn, Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and Sally Wentworth, VP of Public Policy at The Internet Society, about the past, present, and potential future of information policy in the US on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Kevin Werbach, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, about the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) paper he penned in 1997 titled "Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy" suggesting new ways of understanding the ethical implications of technological development from a legal perspective. We look at how these views have held up over time and what the new technological landscape looks like today on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Michael Kearns, Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Founding Director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, about the the applications and implications of machine learning on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Woody Scal, Former Chief Business Officer of Fitbit, joins host Rob Coneybeer to discuss how Fitbit has grown exponentially in sales to become the world's leading app for tracking all-day activity, workouts, sleep and more on Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Overtreatment – the provision of health care that we know can’t possibly help a patient – is a big problem in the American health care system. Host John Barkett leads a panel discussion on how physicians can focus on cutting down overtreatment when deciding on course of care for patients on The Business of Health Care. Panelists include: Daniel B. Wolfson, Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation (American Board of Internal Medicine); Dr. Cynthia (Daisy) Smith, Vice President of Clinical Programs for the American College of Physicians; and Dr. Akshat Kumar, Attending Physician at Penn Medicine and current MBA Candidate at the Wharton School.Penn Medicine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School debuts a new show, Work of Tomorrow. Hosted by Christian Terwiesch, Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of Penn’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management, we look at how new technology is causing disruptions in existing industries, changing the meaning of work along the way. In this premiere episode, Christian speaks with Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer at McGraw-Hill Education, and Jennifer Neumaier, Enterprise Sales Manager of Learning Solutions at LinkedIn, about how their companies have changed the delivery of online education on Work of Tomorrow.https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/work-of-tomorrow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Abby Kohut, Absolutely Abby and Author/Recruiter, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss what we can be thankful about at our jobs, as well as giving career advice to listener call ins on Career Talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Casey Swanton, Senior Email Strategist at Return Path, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss strategic marketing via email campaigns for the upcoming holidays on this special Black Friday Episode of Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Barr, Consumer Markets Leader at PwC, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss PwC's Holiday Outlook for 2017 on this special Black Friday Episode of Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew Sivori, VP of Home Entertainment Marketing at Samsung Electronics America, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss how Samsung is gearing up for holidays sales on this special Black Friday Episode of Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amber Olson Rourke, Chief Marketing Officer at Nerium International, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss marketing her online skincare products during holiday sales on this special Black Friday Episode of Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ken Belson, Staff Writer at the New York Times, joins hosts Ken Shropshire and George Perry to discuss some of the current hot button issues of the NFL including the Dallas Cowboys' Owner Jerry Jones impeding the finalization of the NFL Commissioner's contract and former NFL players coming together to fight for more transparency in the NFL's concussion settlement payments on The Wharton Sports Business Show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Puerto Rico's Governor, Ricardo Rossello, appeared before Congress last week after asking the Trump administration for $94 billion to help the island recover. Host Dan Loney talks to Carla Minet, Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, and Deepak Lamba Nieves, Research Director for the Center for a New Economy, to look at how much progress has been made since the devastation of Hurricane Maria as of last week, and how many repairs are still needed on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Loren Feldman is LIVE from the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum 2017 in Palm Springs, CA. Loren talks with Nick Bayer, Founder and CEO, Saxby’s Coffee, about expansion in a competitive market on this special episode of Mind Your Business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Loren Feldman is LIVE from the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum 2017 in Palm Springs, CA. Loren talks with Sherry Deutschmann, Founder of LetterLogic, about how she started and successfully sold her own company on this special episode of Mind Your Business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.