Wharton Business Radio Highlights

Host Sam Chandan talks with Michael Fratantoni, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research and Industry Technology at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), to discuss the US mortgage outlook for 2018 on the Real Estate Hour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been 6 months since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and knocked out all power, on top of many casualties. Is Puerto Rico back up and running? Host Dan Loney talks with Carlos Suarez Carrasquillo, Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies Program at the University of Florida and Carla Minet, Journalist and Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, to discuss the current state of Puerto Rico and it's restoration efforts so far on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The National Association for Female Executives (NFAE) released a report earlier this month listing the top 70 companies for executive women. Host Laura Zarrow talks with Subha Barry, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Working Mother Media, to shine a light on companies that promote and support female executives as highlighted in the report on Women@Work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Cade Massey is Live from the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2018, where he interviews attendees about what data influences organizations when making employee decisions such as hiring/firing, organizational structure, assessing culture, etc. Interviewees: Elena Botelho, Partner at ghSMART and Author of "The CEO Next Door"; Steve Kaplan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business; Brad Grant, VP of Baseball Operations, Strategy & Administration for the Cleveland Indians; and Michael Metzger, Senior Managing Director at Teach for America.Over two days, Wharton PAC’s speakers, panel discussions, and competitions provide a unique opportunity to learn from industry and academic leaders through thought provoking sessions. Learn how the latest research connects to organizational decision making and engage in discussions with leading practitioners.wpa.wharton.upenn.edu/conference/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informati

President Trump revealed a new plan to tackle the opioid crisis in the US: offering the death penalty to certain drug dealers responsible for hundreds of deaths via their illegal distribution of these drugs. Host Dan Loney talks with Dr. Evan Anderson, Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Senior Fellow at Penn's Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI), and Dr. Anita Gupta, Princeton University Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, to discuss Trump's plan and additional elements around this issue such as how current and future patients who may need opioids for pain relief will be treated on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wharton Finance Professor Jeremy Siegel, Host of Behind the Markets, leads a discussion with Janet L. Yellen, Distinguished Fellow at The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and Former Chair of the Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as brought to you by the Howard Crawley Memorial Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Australia hasn’t had a mass shooting event since 1996, after a law was introduced to curb firearm deaths. Requirements owning a gun were strengthened, including a 28 days wait period, an extensive background check, and only handguns available to citizens. Host Dan Loney talks with Postdoctoral Researchers at Wharton’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ Ben Ukert and Elena Andreyeva, who are looking at long-term prevention of firearm injuries in their paper, “Association Between Gun Law Reforms and Intentional Firearm Deaths in Australia” on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brad Grossman, Founder and CEO of Zeitguide, joins host Americus Reed to discuss marketing trends noted in this year’s Zeitguide report, including the potential end of the CMO, on Maketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeff Pfeffer, Stanford University Professor, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss this question and more, addressed in his new book "Dying for a Paycheck" on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had charged Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes with fraud. Under an agreement the former billionaire startup founder is stripped of her voting control of the company, banned from being an offer or directed of any public company for at least a decade and required to pay a $500k penalty. Host Dan Loney talks with Wayne Guay, Professor of Accounting at the University of Pennsylvania, and James Angel, Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, to discuss the details of the case on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ed Marcum, Managing Director of Humanity United, joins hosts Sandi Hunt and Katherine Klein to discuss the foundation's dedication to bringing new approaches to global problems that have long been considered intractable on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Penn Wharton Budget Model's dynamic analysis of investment in public infrastructure was released following the White House release of President Trump's plans. Recently the administration criticized the PWBM's calling it "flawed" and suggesting "one cannot help but question whether the authors who produced it had any bias.” Host Dan Loney speaks with Kent Smetters, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School and Faculty Director of the PWBM, to discuss how PWBM has responded to this criticism and why they're confident in their model projections on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Economist has a new report on the changing car/AV/tech industries, congestion, city planning safety, policymakers and the vision required to make them work. Host Dan Loney speaks to the author of this report Tom Standage, Deputy Editor/Head of Digital Strategy for The Economist, to go over key findings on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case on protection of corporate ‘whistleblowers.’ According to the unanimous vote of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. V. Somers, employees may now go straight to the Securities and Exchange Commission instead of their internal organizational channels to complain about corporate misdeeds. Host Dan Loney speaks with Joseph Sirbak, Labor Attorney at Cozen O'Connor, to discuss his views on this case and how qualifying as a ‘whistleblower’ is hard to define on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Comcast is offering $31Billion for the British satellite broadcast company Sky, outbidding Fox's bid. Host Dan Loney talks with Hemant Bhargava, Professor of Technology Management at UC Davis, Randall Smith, Professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and Ian Whittaker, Head of European Media Research at Liberum Capital Limited, to discuss why the Sky is so valuable to both entertainment giants on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

President Trump announced plans for steel and aluminum tariffs last week. The decision has been widely criticized by economists, law makers and academics, among others as a move that could hurt many other American industries and lead us into a trade war. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at Wharton, and Matt Gold, Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for North America and Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, to discuss the potential fallout of these tariffs on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nick Goepper, two-time Olympian, and most recently Silver Medalist in Men’s Ski Slope, joins hosts Cade Massey, Adi Wyner, Eric Bradlow, and Shane Jensen to discuss his career and overall strategies for skiing competitions on Wharton Moneyball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marc de Grandpre, General Manager of the New York Red Bulls and Red Bull Arena, joins host George Perry to discuss how he came to be GM and what changes have evolved for the NYRB and Major League Soccer on The Wharton Sports Business Show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosts Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human Resources at The Wharton School, and Dan O'Meara, Shareholder in the Philadelphia office of Ogletree Deakins, discuss the cause and effect of right-to-work states on workforce unions including the aspect of "fair share" fees on In the Workplace. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Corporations have been cutting ties with gun organizations like the NRA in the aftermath of the mass murder at Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This move has come after survivors of the shootings launched the #NeverAgain campaign against lawmakers who have taken money from the NRA and fight all gun legislation. Host Dan Loney talks with Eric Orts, Director of Wharton's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, and Brian Berkey and Robert Hughes, both Legal Studies and Business Ethics Professors at Wharton, to look at why companies have starting aligning themselves with this movement on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.