Wharton Business Radio Highlights

The Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Ajit Pai, is moving to repeal net neutrality rules put in place by the Obama administration. Telecom companies fought the rules, which prohibit high-speed internet service providers from slowing down or stopping website delivery. Host Dan Loney talks with Christopher Yoo, Director of Penn Law's Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, and Jennifer Golbeck, Director of the Social Intelligence Lab at the University of Maryland, to discuss the implications as well as timing of this move by the FCC on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Insights: Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, talks with host Jeremy Schwartz and guest Jeff Weniger of WisdomTree about his 2018 Outlook for the US Financial Markets on Behind the Markets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The New York Times reported Rex Tillerson may be on his way out as Secretary of State as the White House looks to tap CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. Tillerson has faced heavy criticism lately as career diplomats are leaving in droves and many important State Department jobs go unfilled. Host Dan Loney talks with William Burke-White, Professor at Penn Law and Inaugural Director of Perry World House, and Alan Henrikson, Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy join us to discuss the latest speculations on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Time Inc has been purchased by Iowa-based media company Meredith, in a $2.8 billion dollar deal. Some of that money came from the billionaire Republican party mega-donors Charles and David Koch, leading some to worry about the editorial influence they could have on the publication. Host Dan Loney talks with Bill Grueskin, Professor of Professional Practice at the Colombia Journalism School and Former Managing Editor of WSJ.com, Stephen Bloom, Professor at University of Iowa's School of Journalism, and Rick Edmonds, Media Business Analyst at Poynter Institute, to discuss what is at stake for Time, Inc on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrice Banks, Founder of Girls Auto Clinic, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her new book "Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide", a do-it-herself manual for auto maintenance intended to help women and men who are nervous about car repairs grab the wheel and taken control on Women@Work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justin Whitener, Director of Pricing, Reporting and Analytics at Ally Bank, joins host Bob Lane to discuss all things mortgage-related with tips from his book "The Mortgage Playbook" on The Real Estate Hour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Deepak Sekar, Founder and CEO of Chowbotics, joins Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss his food robotics company that eliminates repetitive tasks like meal prep and allows more time for humans to be creative in cooking on Bay Area Ventures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sanyin Siang, Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics at Duke University, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss her recent book "The Launch Book", encouraging people to be braver about making changes in their lives, aka launching, on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a "smart pill" that tells doctors if and when patients take their medications. This pill could save billions of dollars in medical expenses, but it raises a lot of concerns among privacy experts. Host Dan Loney speaks with Robert Field, Lecturer at Wharton's Health Care Management Department and Professor of Health Management at Drexel University's Kline School of Law, and Holly Fernandez Lynch, Professor of Medical Ethics at the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn, to discuss the issues surrounding the digital pill technology on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Michael Kearns, Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Founding Director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, about the the applications and implications of machine learning 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 academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Gigi Sohn, Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and Sally Wentworth, VP of Public Policy at The Internet Society, about the past, present, and potential future of information policy in the US 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 academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Kevin Werbach, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, about the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) paper he penned in 1997 titled "Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy" suggesting new ways of understanding the ethical implications of technological development from a legal perspective. We look at how these views have held up over time and what the new technological landscape looks like today 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 academic conference "After the Digital Tornado" in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, about how we can balance the good and the bad that comes along with the innovation of new technologies on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Overtreatment – the provision of health care that we know can’t possibly help a patient – is a big problem in the American health care system. Host John Barkett leads a panel discussion on how physicians can focus on cutting down overtreatment when deciding on course of care for patients on The Business of Health Care. Panelists include: Daniel B. Wolfson, Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation (American Board of Internal Medicine); Dr. Cynthia (Daisy) Smith, Vice President of Clinical Programs for the American College of Physicians; and Dr. Akshat Kumar, Attending Physician at Penn Medicine and current MBA Candidate at the Wharton School.Penn Medicine See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Woody Scal, Former Chief Business Officer of Fitbit, joins host Rob Coneybeer to discuss how Fitbit has grown exponentially in sales to become the world's leading app for tracking all-day activity, workouts, sleep and more on Launch Pad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School debuts a new show, Work of Tomorrow. Hosted by Christian Terwiesch, Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of Penn’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management, we look at how new technology is causing disruptions in existing industries, changing the meaning of work along the way. In this premiere episode, Christian speaks with Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer at McGraw-Hill Education, and Jennifer Neumaier, Enterprise Sales Manager of Learning Solutions at LinkedIn, about how their companies have changed the delivery of online education on Work of Tomorrow.https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/work-of-tomorrow See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Abby Kohut, Absolutely Abby and Author/Recruiter, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss what we can be thankful about at our jobs, as well as giving career advice to listener call ins on Career Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Puerto Rico's Governor, Ricardo Rossello, appeared before Congress last week after asking the Trump administration for $94 billion to help the island recover. Host Dan Loney talks to Carla Minet, Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, and Deepak Lamba Nieves, Research Director for the Center for a New Economy, to look at how much progress has been made since the devastation of Hurricane Maria as of last week, and how many repairs are still needed on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amber Olson Rourke, Chief Marketing Officer at Nerium International, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss marketing her online skincare products during holiday sales on this special Black Friday Episode of Marketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve Barr, Consumer Markets Leader at PwC, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss PwC's Holiday Outlook for 2017 on this special Black Friday Episode of Marketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.