Wharton Business Radio Highlights

Host Laura Zarrow speaks to Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group (which owns OkCupid, Match.com and Tinder, and others), Live at the 20th annual Wharton Women in Business Summit 2018. Mandy discusses how she's navigated her leadership career amidst "bro culture" and gender stereotypes on Women@Work.Wharton Women in Business (WWIB) is a professional organization that strives to expand career, leadership and networking opportunities for women studying at Wharton. Their annual conference brings together some of the country’s sharpest female business leaders to discuss relevant issues, in addition to creating a unique networking space for students to engage with employers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cat Hoke, Founder of nonprofits Defy Ventures and Prison Entrepreneurship Program, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss her new book "A Second Chance: For You, for Me, and for the Rest of Us" and how people with convictions can move forward to find employment on Career Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dune Thorne, Head of Client Experience at Brown Advisory and Founder of Invest in Girls, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sandi Hunt to discuss impact investing and advocating for financial literacy on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenna Behrer, Senior Director of Innovation at Heineken USA, joins host Nicolaj Siggelkow to discuss innovation strategies behind the brand on Mastering Innovation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, Senior Writer at Inc. Magazine and award winning journalist who has covered culture, emerging technologies and entrepreneurship for the past 15 years, joins hosts Jeff Klein, Mike Useem, and Anne Greenhalgh to discuss her new book "We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, The Internet’s Culture Laboratory," taking a deep look at the formation and history of Reddit on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosts and Wharton Professors Christian Terwiesch and Nicolaj Siggelkow take a deep dive into the world of digital payments and money transferring to look at how innovations have already shifted the landscape with Kamila Chytil, COO of MoneyGram, and Michael Todasco, Director of Innovation at PayPal, on Work of Tomorrow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon just announced they would raise the minimum wage for their employees to $15 an hour, after public criticism of the richest man in modern history employing workers earning an average of $28,000 a year. This increase more than doubles the national hourly wage at $7.25, which many people question if it even qualifies as working wage today, and affects about $350,000 people a year, including about a third of which are seasonal employees. Host Dan Loney talks with Marshall Meyer, Emeritus Professor of Management at the Wharton School, Matthew Bidwell, Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, and Matthew Johnson, Research Scientist at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, to look at how higher wages may attract and retain workers in a service economy on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lynn Branigan, President and CEO of She Runs It, joins host Wharton Prof Americus Reed to discuss her work with women in in marketing careers, and her panel at Advertising Week 2018 in NYC this week on Marketing Matters. She Runs It is formerly Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, joins host John Barkett on The Business of Health Care to discuss the rise and shocking collapse of the once-heralded blood-testing startup, Theranos. Carreyrou was the first to break the story and pursued it to the end. He chronicles the collapse of Theranos in his book called "BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosts Wharton Prof Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara dive into the world of HR Analytics on In the Workplace. They speak with Dan Shapero, Vice President of Talent Solutions, Careers, and Learning at LinkedIn about the rise of analytics in HR, then speak with Claire McTaggart, Founder and CEO of SquarePeg, about how those HR analytics are being used at SquarePeg to help match business professionals to jobs based on fit, not just resumes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Going through a career transition can be financially tricky and may require more planning than you think. Dr. Dawn Graham, Career Director for the Wharton Executive MBAs and author of the new book "Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers and Seize Success," joins host Kent Smetters to discuss the financial aspects of switching careers on Your Money. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Beth Comstock, GE's former Chief Marketing Officer and first female Vice-Chair, joins host Saikat Chaudhuri to discuss her career in innovation, her current Director role at Nike, and her new book "Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change" on Mastering Innovation.Book - https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Forward-Courage-Creativity-Change-ebook/dp/B078LJW4G4 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeffrey Marrazzo, Co-Founder and CEO of Spark Analytics, joins host Karl Ulrich to discuss how the fully integrated, commercial gene therapy company is dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease on Launch Pad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Julie Bort, Chief Tech Correspondent at Business Insider, joins hosts Wharton Prof Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara to discuss her recent article "70-hour weeks and 'WTF' emails: 42 employees reveal the frenzy of working at Tesla under the 'cult' of Elon Musk" on In the Workplace. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Hosts Sandi Hunt and Sherryl Kuhlman broadcasts Live from the CEO Connection Mid-Market Convention 2018, where they discuss why social impact is an important part of their business across the mid-market sector. Interviewees: Terri Andrews, National Public Relations Director at RSM; Steven Lang, CEO of Dancker; Nancy Richardson, CEO of San Antonio Shoemakers; and Paul Saccone, CEO of Able Services.Mid-Market Convention Info - https://www.midmarketconvention.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Hosts Sandi Hunt and Sherryl Kuhlman broadcasts Live from the CEO Connection Mid-Market Convention 2018, where they discuss why social impact is an important part of their business across the mid-market sector. Interviewees: Mark S. Stewart, Partner and Chairman at Ballard Spahr; Gina Fyffe, Executive Director of Integra; Robert Barker, President of the Bob Barker Company; and Micalyn Harris, President and CEO of ELPRO with Reinhard Feix, CSO at ELPRO.Mid-Market Convention Info - https://www.midmarketconvention.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last week we learned that Instagram’s Co-Founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are stepping down from the giant social media company. Facebook bought the platform in 2012 for $1 billion, but has recently made changes to the product. Host Dan Loney talks with Kevin Werbach, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, and Jennifer Golbeck, Director of the Social Intelligence Lab and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, about what factors may be at play for the co-founders' decision to leave the company on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosts Catharine Hays and Jenny Rooney talk with Jean-Marc Pailhol, CMO at Allianz, and Chris Hummel, Senior Vice President and CMO at United Rentals, to find out more about their marketing and branding strategies on CMO Spotlight.Business Radio Monthly Special! CMO Spotlight is by CMOs, for CMOs - and everyone else who wants to know what today's Chief Marketing Officers are thinking and doing, including where they are investing their time, energy, and resources for the future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Denise Karkos, CMO of TD Ameritrade, joins host Dave Reibstein and guest host Suneal Bedi to discuss marketing strategies within the financial industry and how TD Ameritrade looks at metrics and analytics on Measured Thoughts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last week, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point citing a "strong" economy, its eighth increase since 2015. Fed Chair Jay Powell hinted at one more rate increase this year and at least three more in 2019. Host Dan Loney talks with Peter Conti-Brown, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, and Sebastian Mallaby, Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and Author of the book The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, to discuss the politics around the move and what this means for the economy on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.