Wharton Business Radio Highlights

Leslie Berlin, Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University, joins host Irina Yuen to discuss her new book, "TROUBLEMAKERS: How Silicon Valley Came of Age” about how Silicon Valley during the 1970s set the stage for our modern high-tech world on Bay Area Ventures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gene Marks, Columnist, Author, and Owner of the Marks Group PC, joins host Loren Feldman to discuss the newly passed tax bill under the Trump Administration and what affect it might have on small business owners moving forward on Mind Your Business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rachel Blumenthal, Founder and CEO at Rockets of Awesome, joins host Karl Ulrich to discuss her unique children's clothing subscription service on Launch Pad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chris Whipple, Author and Owner/CEO of CCWHIP Productions, joins hosts Mike Useem and Anne Greenhalgh to discuss just how much power a White House Chief of Staff wields as covered in his best-selling book "The Gatekeepers" which includes intimate interviews with all seventeen living former chiefs of staff. Find out about their unparalleled access to the leaders of the free world and their influence on US history on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robert Pozen, Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss how to work smarter, not harder, and how to manage all of those emails piling up in your inbox post-holidays on Work and Life. Robert's book is called "Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours". See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is Santa concerned with most regarding his team at the North Pole? How has the recent policy changes in the US affected his operations? What did Putin ask for this year? Is he on the Naughty List? Is Santa feeling threatened by the Amazon takeover? Has Disney tried to purchase the rights to the North Pole? Hosts Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara talk with the big man in red himself, Nicholas (Santa) Claus, to find out the current landscape in the arctic workshop on In the Workplace. Happy Holidays! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Gimbel, Founder and CEO of LaSalle Network, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss the ins and outs of job searching during the holidays - what you can expect and insight into holiday hiring on Career Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve Wanczyk, Account Supervisor at Braithwaite Communications, joins host Americus Reed to discuss a recap of the Biggest Brand Blunders of 2017 and Crisis Communications Tips for the New Year on Marketing Matters. Happy Holidays! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The faces of five women, including celebrities Taylor Swift and Ashley Judd, appear on TIME’s 2017 Person of the Year cover, representing the “The Silence Breakers” — the thousands of people across the world who have come forward with their experiences of sexual harassment and assault. Josh Levs, Author, Communications Consultant and Gender Equality Activist, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss the #MeToo movement and how it affects men and women at work on Women@Work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lindsey Roy, CMO of Greetings at Hallmark Cards, talks to host Americus Reed about how the company is gearing up to help people prepare for the holidays! Then, Merrilee Kick, Founder and CEO of BuzzBallz, talks with Americus about the Buzz around her great new stocking stuffer - booze to go! - on Marketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Federal Reserve increased short-term interest rates by a quarter of a point. Host Dan Loney speaks with Lisa Cook, Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University, to discuss this move and how the Fed may change as Janet Yellen wraps up her term as chair on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Baker, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, joins host Dan Loney to discuss his recent presentation on research he’s been doing on the regulation of robo-advisors, particularly within the financial services industry, he gave to Capitol Hill Staffers as part of Wharton's B-School for Public Policy seminars on Knowledge@Wharton.For more information about how to get involved with Penn Wharton B-School for Public Policy, visit: https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/b-school/get-involved/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Seth Rabinowitz, Director of Fan Engagement at the New York Jets, and Kyle Bautista, VP and General Manager of Complexity Gaming, join host Christian Terwiesch to discuss what the future of the sports entertainment industry could look like, especially with emergence of eSports on Work of Tomorrow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nick Martell, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of MarketSnacks and current Wharton MBA student, joins host Peter Cappelli to discuss the art of the side hustle - why starting an entrepreneurial venture on the weekends alongside of your "day job" could not only benefit you, but your 9-5 company as well on In the Workplace. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Whichever side of the healthcare debate you’re on, I think we can agree that the system itself is really complicated and somewhat impersonal– imagine how much more complicated and impersonal it can be if you don’t speak the language or don’t have access to the technology you need. Dr. Vikram Bakhru, Chief Operating Officer at ConsejoSano and Wharton Alum, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss his mission to make healthcare accessible to everyone around the world on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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 Knowledge@Wharton.See 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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.