Wharton Business Radio Highlights

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 Dan talks with Jeff Dieffenbach, Associate Director of MIT's Integrated Learning Initiative, about the outdated model of one-professor-to-500-student-lecture-hall and how he encourages innovation in education to adapt to smaller group interactions around digital tools on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.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney is LIVE from the Reimagine Education Conference 2017 in Philadelphia. Dan talks with Brittany Bir, COO of 42, about the tuition-free immersive coding school with campuses in Silicon Valley and Paris 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 Ivan Ostrowicz, CEO of Domoscio, about the role of Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science in education to help personalize learning in the future 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 Duncan Ivison, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Syndey, about how he is working on solutions to maintain Australia's policy in assisting students to enter college for free and pay tuition back once they've earned a certain salary 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 Oren Jackman, Co-Founder and CEO of examPAL, about his interactive, online college test prep course based in Tel-Aviv that is customized to each user's way of answering questions 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 Jerry Wind, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School and Organizer of the Reimagine Education conference, and Barbara (Bobbi) Kurshan, Executive Director of Academic Innovation at the Penn Graduate School of Education, about the formation of the conference five years ago, it's aim to increase access to high quality education, and how they will be judging this year's "Ed Tech" competitors 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 Nunzio Quacquarelli, Wharton Alum and CEO of QS, about how his higher education research, rankings, and student enrollment company helps foster budding entrepreneurs that are helping to create new solutions for learning access 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 Jonathan Rochelle, Product Director at Google and C-Founder of Google Drive, about how Google Classroom is providing teachers with the tools to "teach better" using virtual reality "Expeditions" 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 Tazeen Sharif, Manager of the Office of International Affairs at Ajman University and Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, about her perspective as a female engineer in an emerging, gender-empowered world on this special episode of Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The importance of a properly functioning governance board is more relevant today than ever with the significant changes taking place in the healthcare market. Host Jeff Voigt leads a panel discussion on how these changes to health care relate to issues such as disruptions in reimbursement, effects on disruptive technologies such as gene therapy, and the rapid consolidation of both providers and payers – and antitrust issues related to this - on The Business of Health Care. Panelists include: Jonathan Kalodimos, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Finance at Oregon State University's College of Business; Michael Peregrine, Partner at McDermott Will & Emery; and Thomas Tsai, MD, MPH, Surgeon and Health Policy Researcher in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The International Olympic Committee has banned Russia from the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, however its athletes are allowed to participate as long as they do it without the Russian flag and the team uniforms. Host Dan Loney talks with Robert Boland, Sports Lawyer and Athletics Integrity Officer at Penn State University, and Andrew Zimbalist, Professor of Economics at Smith College and Author of "Rio 2016: Olympic Myths, Hard Realities", to discuss this decision and how it might impact the Olympic games on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School debuts a new show, Mastering Innovation. Hosted by Saikat Chaudhuri, Harbir Singh, and Nicolaj Siggelkow, Directors of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, we look at how established organizations foster the kind of innovation that keeps them going strong year after year. In this premiere episode, we speak with Ryan Miller, Senior Vice President and Design & Delivery Leader of Wells Fargo's Innovation Group, about how Wells Fargo is fostering banking innovation on Mastering Innovation.https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/mastering-innovation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Earlier last week, President Donald Trump announced he was signing two presidential proclamations to the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Host Dan Loney speaks with Eric Orts, Wharton professor and Director of Wharton's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, and Robert Keiter, Director of the Wallace Stegner Center of Land, Resources, and the Environment at University of Utah's College of Law, to discuss the impact and public reaction of this decision and why it's being sent to the courts for a final decision on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bitcoin rose to an astonishing $11,000 value last week (and is now sitting around $17,000) - astonishing for a currency which had a $1 value just six years ago. The decentralized payment network has seen ups and downs before, leading some to ask whether it's a good investment. Host Dan Loney speaks with Kevin Werbach, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, and Christian Catalini, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss why Bitcoin has hit this high mark and what this means for investors on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CVS is merging with AETNA in a $69 billion deal that could change the health care industry. The drug store giant's plans reportedly include pushing the health insurance company's 22 million enrollees towards their clinics rather than hospitals. Host Dan Loney speaks with Mark Pauly, Professor of Health Care Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, and Robert Field, Health Care Management Department Lecturer at the Wharton School and Professor of Law and Public Health at Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Dornsife School of Public Health, to discuss the merger's potential impacts on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.