This Week in Business

Nicholas Davis, Head of Society and Innovation and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum, talks with Host Mike Useem about the World Economic Forum’s work on “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”, focusing on how emerging technologies could disrupt industries, labor markets, societies and governments, and how technology can be used to empower communities to create a human-centered future on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Mitch Goldman leads a panel discussion on Apple's recent partnership with major health systems, allowing patients to download their medical records to their iPhone. We discuss what this means for the patient, for the hospitals, and our health care system as a whole on The Business of Health Care. Panelists include: Michael Restuccia, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Penn Medicine; Dr. William Hanson, Chief Medical Information Officer at Penn Medicine; and Aneesh Chopra, President of Care Journey and Former United States Chief Technology Officer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

*NEW* 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. Hosts Catharine Hays and Jenny Rooney talk with Elizabeth Rutledge, CMO at American Express, and Jay Livingston, CMO at BARK/Bark Box, about what it's like for a new CMO's first 100 days in the role on CMO Spotlight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jenny Schuetz, David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss the latest Brookings Institution Report she co-authored, looking at the current housing shortage and how it's influencing home prices and thus people's capacity to become homeowners on The Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Renters made up the almost 43 billion US households in 2016. As demand for rentals is on the rise, price increases have outpaced median household income growth. According to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a third of renters are now spending over 30 percent of there income on rent. Host Dan Loney talks with Erin Currier, Director of Pew's Family Financial Security and Mobility Project and it's Student Borrower Success Project, to discuss these findings and more on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One for the World is a new organization that helps young professionals chose where their charitable donation can have the greatest impact using a rigorous data-driven selection process. Host Dan Loney talks with the two Wharton graduates who co-founded this organization, Josh McCann, Associate Syndications Officer at the International Finance Corporation, and Kate Epstein, Engagement Manager at L.E.K. Consulting, to discuss how they are growing their impact and making charitable giving easy and effective on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Northern Ireland's border with the Republic of Ireland is a major issue as Brexit negotiations continue. The customs union has become a important aspect to Prime Minister Theresa May's dealings with the House of Lords and with the European Union. Host Dan Loney talks with Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Michelle Egan, Professor in the School of International Service at American University and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, to discuss the latest in the impending Brexit on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

French President Emmanuel Macron is the first leader to make an official state visit to the US under the Trump Administration. Host Dan Loney speaks with Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University, and Olivier Chatain, Associate Professor Strategy and Business Policy Department at HEC Paris and a Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, to discuss what goals Macron has in mind for his meetings with President Trump on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recently, Wells Fargo bank was recently fined a total of $1 billion dollars to two federal regulators. Host Dan Loney talks with David Zaring, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, Christopher Peterson, John J. Flynn Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Utah and former Special Advisor in the Office of the Director at the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Cindy Schipani, Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Business Law at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, to discuss whether these fines were too steep, or not steep enough, and how Wells Fargo got itself into hot water on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50 years ago, the United States Congress was trying to cut back on voting rights, housing and welfare regulations, and civil rights and entitlement programs. President, Lyndon B. Johnson was losing the Vietnam War, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Host Dan Loney speaks with Kyle Longley, The Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at Arizona State University, to discuss his new book, "LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval" on Knowledge@Wharton. Longley believes that no other year - except maybe 1929 - had hosted such turmoil and describes all the events and their affects on our society a half-century later in this new book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.