This Week in Business

Host Christina Terwiesch speaks with Steven Dominguez, Vice President of Global Brands for Hyatt Place and Hyatt House, and Jeff Hurst, Chief Commercial Officer at HomeAway, about the future innovations of the hospitality industry on Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new study shows that about 36% of college students go hungry and an equal number lack adequate housing. Host Dan Loney speaks with researches W. Joel Schneider, Professor of Psychological Studies in Education at Temple University and Daphne Hernandez, Professor of Health and Human Performance at University of Houston, to discuss why this happening and what can be done to help feed and house these students on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since 1952, The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany began its work negotiating payments to the remaining elder survivors and their families. The healthcare and other support has been necessary for the life extension of some of these families. Host Dan Loney speaks with Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and Kristine Donly, Deputy Chief Program Officer as well as the Interim Director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC., to discuss justice for the war crimes against Jewish Holocaust victims in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Karl Ulrich hosts a very special episode of Launch Pad, speaking to eight semi-finalists from the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge. If you’re not familiar, this is where our students spend the year building a company, and then enter our competition where they pitch their company to accomplished investors. They will be competing for 135-thousand dollars in cash and prizes. In Part II, we speak with: Rui Jing Jiang, Avisi Technologies; Philip Williams, Spectrum Scores; Federika Longinotti-Buitoni, Collecto; and Thomas Cavett, POWTI Innovations. More Info: https://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/startup-showcase/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Karl Ulrich hosts a very special episode of Launch Pad, speaking to eight semi-finalists from the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge. If you’re not familiar, this is where our students spend the year building a company, and then enter our competition where they pitch their company to accomplished investors. They will be competing for 135-thousand dollars in cash and prizes. In Part I, we speak with: Haley Russell, Chipper Pet Food; Seth Neel, Welligence Energy Analytics; Michael Wong, Instahub; and Shanel Fields of MD Ally. More Info: https://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/startup-showcase/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on Capital Hill last week where he was grilled by Senators and Congressmen over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Host Dan Loney speaks with Lyle Ungar, Professor of Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering, and Jennifer Golbeck, Director of the Social Intelligence Lab and an Information Studies Professor at the University of Maryland, to discuss the information revealed at the hearing and whether regulation is inevitable for social media giants on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Trump is expressing interest in rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he walked away from last year. The president's trade and tariff battle with China has raised fears and criticism from corporations, farmers and others. However, the rest of the members of the TPP have moved on and it may be too late for the US to rejoin. Host Dan Loney talks with Ian Sheldon, Professor of Agricultural Economics and International Trade at Ohio State University, and Joshua Meltzer, Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, discuss the current landscape on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gayle Jennings-O’Byrne, Founder and CEO of Intent Manifesto, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Katherine Klein to discuss how her company is now here to educate, inform and raise awareness and support for Women of Color startups to help tap into tremendous opportunities for investors and communities on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Philip Reed, Automotive Writer at NerdWallet.com, joins host Kent Smetters to discuss his recent article "Car Negotiating Secrets for People Who Hate Haggling" on Your Money. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Dan Loney talks with two 2018 Eisenhower Fellows on what issues they're tackling this year on Knowledge@Wharton. William Hurley (US), Founder & CEO of Strangeworks, is utilizing quantum computing to help businesses process and make sense of large amounts of data; Temitayo Etomi (Nigeria), General Manager of Operations at the Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency is focusing on youth empowerment marketing - helping students work and learn while they're young to be prepared for life after education. More information: https://www.efworld.org/meet-our-fellows Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.