Wharton Business Radio Highlights

Bay Area Ventures welcomes a new weekly contributor, Owen Thomas, Business Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, host Doug Collom talks in depth with Owen to explore the current pulse of San Francisco, chatting about Unicorns and Exits among Bay Area companies, hypergrowth in the city, and homelessness and Proposition C on Bay Area Ventures. Owen's weekly contribution, "Bay Area Beat," will start this Monday 1/7/19 at 7PM Eastern with Bay Area Ventures, occurring the first ten minutes of every show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Anne Greenhalgh talks with David Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and Director of the Health and Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania,about his research into the history of the Lazaretto quarantine station (1799-1895) on the Delaware River outside Philadelphia—the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere and the seventh oldest in the world, on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosts Eric Bradlow and Adi Wyner talk with Jeremy Lin, Guard for the Atlanta Hawks, about his basketball career which started in the Ivy League and about the role of personal and team analytics in basketball on Wharton Moneyball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Wharton School and World Bank Group have formed a partnership, Ideas for Action Initiative (I4A), to focus on growing entrepreneurship in Africa by connecting young leaders all around the world to help find solutions to local problems. Host Dan Loney talks with Djordjija Petkoski, Co-Chair of I4A and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, and Michelle Jaffee, current senior at Wharton studying Operations and Social Impact and Responsibility and leader of the I4A Accelerator at Penn, to learn more about this initiative. Ariane Umuringa, Rwandan social entrepreneur and Founder of Starlight, also joins us to discuss her mission to reduce use of kerosene lamps in Rwandan villages, helped by I4A, on Knowledge@Wharton. Learn more at http://www.ideas4action.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Looking for books to give as gifts this year? Host Dan Loney explores the "Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers List," an annual report published by the Penn Graduate School of Education, with author of the report Elizabeth Ebony Thomas, Associate Professor at Penn's Graduate School of Education, and doctoral student Christopher Rogers, on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust," leads a two-part discussion with blockchain experts on After the Blockchain Bubble. Guests this hour include: Tim Swanson, Founder of fintech advisory firm Post Oak Labs; Caitlin Long, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, former Chairman and President of Symbiont.io, the market-leading smart contracts platform for financial sector uses of blockchain technology; Tonya Evans, Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Chair of the Intellectual Property & Technology Online Programs; Marco Santori, President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockcha

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust," leads a two-part discussion with blockchain experts on After the Blockchain Bubble. Guests this hour include: Michael Casey, Senior Advisor at MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and Chairman of CoinDesk's Advisory Board; Jalak Jobanputra, Founding Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures, one of the first blockchain-focused VC funds; Amber Baldet, Co-Founder and CEO at Clovyr, a startup composed of a suite of tools for blockchain applications and services for development teams to deploy products to the cloud or on-site production environments, and former leader of the JPMorg

John Chambers, Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and former CEO and Chairman of Cisco Systems, joins host Mike Useem to discuss his book Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World, in which he shares the management, leadership and business principles that brought him and his teams unmatched success for decades on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Benoit Dube is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, Associate Vice Provost, and the inaugural Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dube joins host Stew Friedman to discuss what he's enacted his first few months in his role of Chief Wellness Officer at Penn, as well as the importance of creating a culture of wellness, decreasing the stigma associated with mental illness, and making it easier for people to ask for help on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dolly Chugh, a Psychologist and Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and NYU's Stern School of Business, joins hosts Anne Greenhalgh and Jeff Klein to discuss her new book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, about how and why most of us are still prone to race and gender bias on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justin George, Staff Writer at The Marshall Project, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Katherine Klein to discuss The First Step Act and how it will impact and potentially improve the criminal justice system in the US on Dollars and Change. The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Christian Terwiesch examines transformation and innovation in the gaming industry with Elaine Chase, Vice President of Global Brand Strategy, Marketing and Esports for Wizards of the Coast, a Hasbro Company, and Gio Hunt, EVP & Executive Producer of Online Products & Technology at Blizzard Entertainment, on Work of Tomorrow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ryder Pearce, Founder and CEO at YoGov, joins hosts Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss the startup on a mission to help everyone have simple and secure access to government services on Bay Area Ventures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carey Lai, a Founding Team Member and Managing Director at Conductive Ventures, joins host Doug Collom to discuss the trails and tribulations of starting your own VC fund on Bay Area Ventures. Conductive Ventures is a $100M enterprise fund investing in “expansion stage” companies across enterprise software and hardware categories, meaning Series A, Series B and beyond. Carey leads the firm’s software investments where he specializes in software as a service (SaaS). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kathryn Sollmann, flexwork and financial security expert, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss her new book "Ambition Redefined: Why the Corner Office Doesn't Work for Every Woman & What to Do Instead" on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The nation is still mourning the loss of 41st U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. His life of service to this country began when he fought in World War II and continued well past his time in the White House. Although he was praised for his foreign policy, he also had a lot of success on domestic policy, which contributed to the growth in the 1990s, including his work on deficit reduction, trade, and the repair of the banking industry. Host Dan Loney talks with Kent Smetters, Professor in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, and William K. Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, about George H. W. Bush's legacy on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Charlene Lake, Chief Sustainability Officer and SVP of Corporate Social Responsibility at AT&T, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss ATT's philanthropic and volunteerism endeavors and additional social impact initiatives on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What makes a company a good employer for women? Host Laura Zarrow examines the new report published by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative called "Four for Women: A Framework for Evaluating Companies' Impact on the Women They Employ" on Women@Work. She speaks with Sandi Maro Hunt, Sr. Director at the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, host of Dollars and Change, and co-author of this report, about their research into the four outcomes that matter most to women: representation, pay, health, and satisfaction. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO of Crisis Text Line, joins host Nicolaj Siggelkow to discuss how she's using big data in new and innovative ways to help solve problems on Mastering Innovation. Crisis Text Line is a global not-for-profit organization providing free crisis intervention via SMS message. The organization's services are available 24 hours a day every day, throughout the US by texting 741741 or Canada by texting 686868. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe Battista, Vice President of the National Athletic and Professional Success Academy and recent PA Sports Hall of Fame Inductee, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss his book "The Power of Pragmatic Passion: 7 Common Sense Principles for Achieving Personal and Professional Success" on Career Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.