This Week in Business

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at immigration. The current government shutdown is linked to immigration - President Trump is demanding over $5 billion dollars to build a wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico. There are also tens of thousands fleeing the violence in Central American countries asking for US...

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the current labor markets. 2018 ended with very positive news: the economy added around 2.6 million jobs in 2018, and wages grew by 3.2 percent. The labor participation rate climbed over 63 percent, meaning more people were coming back into the workforce, which also nudged...

As we continue our “2019: A Look Ahead” series, we focus on the financial markets, which have been on a roller coaster of ups and downs the last few months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw a decline over 10 percent and both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 saw significant declines as well. The factors that lead to some of this uncertainty are still in place, including the U.S. trade war with C...

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the banking sector. Overall, banks have done well under the Trump administration that has worked on cutting regulations. But, some banks found themselves in trouble last year, such as the Deutsche Bank which was involved in a tax evasion scandal. With the economy still going strong,...

As the partial government shutdown continues, American farmers who were already impacted by the trade war with China are now facing even more complications. The billions of dollars bailout they were promised to make up for losses due to the trade war are on hold. The offices of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are closed, creating a backlog of loan applic...

A little over a week ago, Dr. Kevin Hassett, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, commented on the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That's the legislation that began in 2018 to cut taxes on corporations and most Americans. Dr. Hassett, speaking before the American Economic Association, disputed many of the claims made by the PWBM. The P...

Host Christian Terwiesch talks with Tanya Thompson, Director of Global Product Acquisition at Hasbro, and Archit Bhargava, Head of Global Product Marketing at Niantic Inc., about the future of playing games, both physical and virtual, on Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2016, U.S. intelligence found evidence of foreign attempts to hack into the country’s electric grid - one of the most crucial parts of American infrastructure. The perpetrators planted malware on online publications they knew utility employees read and emailed resumes with tainted attachments to get into secured systems. Last year U.S. officials publicly blame...

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees the approval of new drugs and oversees around 80 percent of our food supply, is among the agencies that are impacted by this partial US government shutdown. Last Wednesday, FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced routine inspections would be temporarily suspended as hundreds of agency inspectors have...

It’s day 24 of the partial government shutdown and so far there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. Last week, dozens of aviation industry groups sent a letter to President Trump and congressional leaders yesterday urging an end to the partial government shutdown and stressing the harm it's doing to their industry. Transportation Security Officers (TSA), border protection age...

The partial US government shutdown has started to impact one aspect of Wall Street – the IPO market. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been partially closed, which means that companies planning to list shares on the stock market this month have to delay their plans. Host Dan Loney talks with David Zaring , Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton s...

It is now day 24 of the partial US government shutdown and so far there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. We take a look back at President Donald Trump's speech last week for his first prime-time Oval Office address to the nation to make his case for a wall at the southern border with Mexico. The President said the partial shutdown of the government will continue...

Scott Cowen, President Emeritus and Distinguished University Chair of Tulane University, joins hosts Mike Useem and Anne Greenhalgh to discuss his 16-year tenure of leadership at Tulane, including navigating the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the future of the Affordable Care Act. In the first two years of the Trump Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, the ACA was challenged on a variety of fronts including the tax bill. Passed just over a year ago, the bill removed the health ins...

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the current situation in China. The second biggest economy in the world is in the midst of a trade war with the United States that's starting to have a palpable impact as recently Apple reported its iPhone sales were lower than expected in China. And auto sales declined in 2018...

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the Mueller Investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election. Thirty-three people have either been indicted or have pled guilty so far, including five former advisers to the president. We don't yet know whether President Donald Trump himself, or anyo...

Knowledge@Wharton on Business Radio is featuring an interview series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and begin with a look at Brexit, the United Kingdom's move to leave the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May had worked out a deal with the EU but couldn't get a majority within her own party to support it, particularly among the hardline “Brexiteers.”&nbs...

Bay Area Ventures welcomes a new weekly contributor, Owen Thomas, Business Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, host Doug Collom talks in depth with Owen to explore the current pulse of San Francisco, chatting about Unicorns and Exits among Bay Area companies, hypergrowth in the city, and homelessness and Proposition C on Bay Area Ventures. Owen's weekly contribution, "Bay Area Beat," wil...

Host Anne Greenhalgh talks with David Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and Director of the Health and Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania,about his research into the history of the Lazaretto quarantine station (1799-1895) on the Delaware River outside Philadelphia—the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere and the seventh oldest...

Hosts Eric Bradlow and Adi Wyner talk with Jeremy Lin, Guard for the Atlanta Hawks, about his basketball career which started in the Ivy League and about the role of personal and team analytics in basketball on Wharton Moneyball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Wharton School and World Bank Group have formed a partnership, Ideas for Action Initiative (I4A), to focus on growing entrepreneurship in Africa by connecting young leaders all around the world to help find solutions to local problems. Host Dan Loney talks with Djordjija Petkoski, Co-Chair of I4A and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, and Michelle Jaff...

Looking for books to give as gifts this year? Host Dan Loney explores the "Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers List," an annual report published by the Penn Graduate School of Education, with author of the report Elizabeth Ebony Thomas, Associate Professor at Penn's Graduate School of Education, and doctoral student Christopher Rogers, on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockch...

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockch...

John Chambers, Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and former CEO and Chairman of Cisco Systems, joins host Mike Useem to discuss his book Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World , in which he shares the management, leadership and business principles that brought him and his teams unmatched success for decades on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...