Wharton Business Radio Highlights

Steve Wanczyk, Associate Vice President at Braithwaite Communications, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss the latest brand crises: This Is Us/Crock Pot and Tide Pods (folks, don't eat them!) on Marketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Christian Terwiesch talks with Alice Chong, Chief of Breast Imaging at Pennsylvania Hospital, and Prashant Warier, CEO of Qure.ai, about the future of the Radiology Industry on Work of Tomorrow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alex Roy, famous Endurance Driver, Editor-at-Large for The Drive, and Co-Host of The Autonocast, joins host Rob Coneybeer to discuss the self-driving car industry on Launch Pad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Todd Steussie, Former NFL All Pro Offensive Lineman, Co-Founder of PotentiaMetrics, and President of PotentiaPRO, joins hosts Eric Bradlow, Shane Jensen, and Adi Wyner to discuss his NFL career and how he transitioned into a career in analytics on Wharton Moneyball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Karen Garrette, Global Retail Industry Director at Microsoft, joins hosts Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to discuss her experience at NRF 2018: Retail’s Big Show, and the future of retail technology (National Retail Federation) on Marketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last week the U.S. Treasury Department released a list of influential Russians who could face sanctions given their close relationship to the Kremlin. The list was mandated by the Countering America's Adversaries Though Sanctions Act of 2017 and included 96 wealthy business executives in addition to over a hundred government officials. Host Dan Loney talks with Philip Nichols, Business Ethics Professor at The Wharton School, and Mitchell Orenstein, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss how this could impact US-Russia relations on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scott Kelly, Retired Astronaut, Former Military Fighter Pilot, and Retired U.S. Navy Captain, joins hosts Jeff Klein and Anne Grennhalgh to discuss his new memoir, "Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery". Scott Kelly is a veteran of four space flights, commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on three expeditions and holds the record for the total accumulated number of days spent in space, the single longest space mission by an American astronaut. Learn more about his stellar career on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kurt Simon, Senior Director of Brand Marketing at Kellogg, joins host Dave Reibstein to discuss their new flavor-stacking campaign, debuting Pringles' first ever Superbowl Commercial (Super Bowl LII) starring Bill Hader, on Measured Thoughts.See the Commercial Here: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/waoZ/pringles-super-bowl-2018-wow-featuring-bill-hader See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIP Fahad Jalal, the Founder and CEO of SitterFriends, a childcare service that provides on-demand nannies and babysitters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIPs Margot Schmorak & David Jacoby are Co-Founders of Hostfully, a venture-funded startup in the vacation rental space. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIPs Cory Bray and Hilmon Sorey, Co-Founders of Clozeloop, a knowledge management platform for sales teams. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIP Joanne Jiang, Co-Founder of LadyMarry, a virtual wedding planner app that helps you plan your big day. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last week, Amazon Go opened its doors in Seattle with cameras and sensors instead of cashiers, shopping carts or checkout lines. Host Dan Loney talks with Barbara Kahn, Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, and Ryan Hamilton, Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University to discuss how this store could define the future of retail on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chris Slowe, Chief Technology Officer and Founding Engineer at Reddit, joins hosts Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss his career and how Reddit was founded on Bay Area Ventures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Bon Ku, Assistant Dean for Health and Design at Jefferson University and TEDx Speaker, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss how JeffDESIGN (College Design Track) teaches students to apply design thinking to solve healthcare challenges and redesign healthcare systems, services, spaces and medical devices on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Home Depot became the latest business to offer its employees bonuses allegedly in response to the tax overhaul. Host Dan Loney talks with Alan Auerbach, Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California Berkeley, and Daniel Hemel, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School to discuss why corporations are passing out bonuses instead of raising wages and the financial impact of the new law on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Damon Jones, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Ivan Barankay to discuss his latest study "What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do?" on In the Workplace. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A new comprehensive report by the national Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, concludes vaping e-cigarettes containing nicotine can be addictive. It also states this may put teenagers who use them at a high risk of smoking. Host Dan Loney talks with Adam Leventhal, Author of this report and Director of the University of California's Health, Emotion & Addiction Laboratory, and David Savitz, Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health who helped put this report together, to discuss the findings on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Aaron Terrazas, Senior Economist at Zillow, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss what’s ahead for the real estate market in 2018, some of the barriers to continued growth—including a lack of inventory, and his thoughts on Amazon HQ2's city selection process on The Real Estate Hour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Trump Administration recently announced that it will impose a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels. Host Dan Loney talks with Mauro Guillen, Director of Wharton's Lauder Institute, and Matt Gold, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, to discuss the tariffs which has some worried it will cost jobs in the solar energy industry and hurt the nation's push toward renewable energy on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.