This Week in Business

Georges Markarian, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS, Board-Certified Neurosurgeon, and Dr. Neil Malhotra, Neurosurgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, join host Christian Terwiesch to discuss the future of neurosurgery on Work of Tomorrow. Neurosurgery, or neurological surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disor...

Janne Korpela, Chief of investor Operations at Slush and Co-Founder of Wave Ventures, joins host Rob Coneybeer to discuss the startup sphere in Northern Europe and how it compares to the US on Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom Haines, Senior Vice President of Capital Markets & Index Solutions at Annexus, and Adam Politzer, Vice President of Product Management at Athene Holdings, joins hosts Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel and Wharton Alum Jeremy Schwartz to discuss insurance asset management on Behind the Markets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The economy is strong, the unemployment rate has dipped down to below four percent, and corporations have more money thanks to the new tax law, but wage growth is still stagnant. Host Dan Loney talks with Peter Cappelli, Professor and Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, and Harry Holzer, Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown...

Beware of fraudulent cryptocurrencies - The Wall Street Journal reviewed documents for 1,450 digital coin offerings and found 271 with red flags. Reporters Shane Shifflett and Coulter Jones   discuss their investigation and story:  Buyer Beware: Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud with host Dan Loney on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

One of this year’s Lipman Family Prize honorees—Jacob Lief, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Pathways, joins host Anne Greenhalgh to discuss his a non-profit organization that takes orphaned and vulnerable children in Port Elizabeth, South Africa from cradle to career, on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hawaii is poised to become the first state to ban the sale of sunscreens with chemicals that could harm coral reefs. Oxybenzoen and octinoxate, which gets into the water from swimmers and through sewage, contributes to bleaching of the corals according to recent research. Craig Downs, Executive Director the Heretics Environmental Laboratory, a nonprofit research cente...

Business Radio Insights: Beth Hendler-Grunt, Founder and President of Next Great Step, LLC, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to tackle some hard questions for recent grads, including where do I go from here? How do I get my foot in the door? - and more on Career Talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lydia Frank, Vice President of Content Strategy at PayScale, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara to discuss the results of PayScale's recent report "The State of the Gender Pay Gap" on in the Workplace. You may be surprised at some of the findings! We find out why on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Brexit negotiations go on, the UK is facing an immigration scandal with the Windrush generation. These are people who moved to Britain from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. Many of the kids arrived on there parents' passports and after decades, are facing issues of being denied services, losing their jobs and even being deported. Host Dan Loney...

The Supreme Court just struck down a 1992 law banning sports betting outside of Nevada. Host Dan Loney looks at the case and what it means for states, fans and teams with Andrew Brandt, Director of Villanova University's Moorad Center for Sports Law, and   Richard McGowan, Professor at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and Economics Editor o...

Thomas Knauff, Founder and CEO of Energy Distribution Partners, joins host Harbir Singh to discuss consolidation and innovation in the energy market on Mastering Innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three Penn students are on their way to changing the lives of chemotherapy patients for good. Knowledge@Wharton host Dan Loney speaks to winners of the Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Showcase to find out more about their company, Sanguis . Divyansh Agarwal (MD PhD candidate), Prateek Agarwal (MD MBA candidate), and Daniel Zhang (MD PhD candidate), have invented a hand-held device for chemotherap...

Career Talk celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Lee Leibowitz (WG'13), Director, Service Line Analytics and Strategy for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and Kelly Breslin Wright (WG'98), Advisor and Board Director for multiple companies, as they discuss tips for electing an MBA program and finding a fu...

Dollars and Change celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Wharton Grads who are making a difference in their industry as hosts Sherryl Kuhlman and Nick Ashburn find out more about their latest initiatives. Guests include: Samra Haider (WG'08), National Director at the Center for Employment Opportunities; Ashley Bittner (WG'...

Leadership in Action celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Gopi Kallayil (WG'98), the Chief Evangelist of Brand Marketing at Google, and Claire LaBrunerie (WG'88), Head of Global Distribution at Sky Harbor Capital Management as they discuss their careers in leadership with hosts Mike Useem and Jeff Klein. Hosted on Acast....

Mastering Innovation celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Brendan Cahill (WG’08), Founder and leader of Penguin Random House Labs, and Brian Fields (WG’03), VP and General Manager of Things to Do at Groupon, to discuss innovation in publishing and experiences with host Saikat Chaudhuri. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Women@Work celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Susan Ganz (WG'88), CEO of Lion Brothers and Melissa Eisenstat (WG'88), Trustee and Board President of the New York Youth Symphony, as they discuss their careers in two very different fields with host Laura Zarrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Behind the Markets celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Co-Founders of Malabar Investments, Sumeet Nagar (WG'01) and Akshay Mansukhani (WG'04). Hosts Jeremy Schwartz, Jeremy Siegel, and Wes Gray discuss investments strategies and investing in India with Sumeet and Akshay. Then, Chris Swann (WG'98) and Founder of Cygnus Ca...

K@W celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Ziad Baba (WG'13), Senior Director of Engagement Marketing at Credit Karma, who says 45% of Americans will be thrown into debt if they have a catastrophic accident. Credit Karma helps their users build their portfolio and save money by providing free credit scores. They also monito...

K@W celebrates the contributions of Wharton alumni on our annual Wharton Business Radio "Reunion Radio" special. Meet Dominic Petty (WG'98), Inner Peace Advisor at  Healerology  and a Program Manager for the US government. He helps people recognize cycles of abuse to nurture their spiritual, emotional and physical guide health. Then, if your investments are diversified, who’s lookin...

Baseball clubs now rely less on subjective scouting reports in hiring players, using data to tell an accurate picture of player performance, past performance and future performance, preventing costly hires. Senior baseball ESPN writer, Keith Law, joins host Dan Loney to discuss how the analytic revolution in baseball is here to stay as outlined in his book "Smart Baseball: The...

Dana Donofree, CEO and founder of AnaOno, joins host Karl Ulrich to discuss how her company offers specially designed lingerie and loungewear for women to wear from their breast cancer diagnosis, through treatment, and into their life beyond on Launch Pad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gary Burnison, CEO of Korn Ferry, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara to discuss tips for recent grads entering the job market and other executive search tips on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Redlus, Wharton Alum and CEO of Tridiuum, joins host Dan Loney to discuss his platform designed to help clinical outcomes for mental and behavioral health patients of all ages on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.