This Week in Business

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 I...

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 t...

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 Int...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 a...

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 Ana...

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 Ac...

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 Direct...

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...

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...

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.

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 Sutt...

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...

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.

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 info...

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, Tec...

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.

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...

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/pri...

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.