This Week in Business

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.

Lauren Smith Brody, Founder of The Fifth Trimester movement, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her new book "The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity and Success After Baby" on Women@Work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One and a half years ago, CHOP surgeons separated conjoined twins, who are doing very well home in North Carolina. Host Dan Loney speaks with Dr. Gregory Heuer, Attending Neurosurgeon in the Division of Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Dr. Alison Perate, Anesthesiologist with the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who were on the case to discuss how 3D printing was used in this successful surgery on Knowledge@Wharton. Gregory and Alison were speakers at this year's TEDxPenn talks last week.More Info: https://www.tedxpenn.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Dave Reibstein and guest host Suneal Bedi talk with Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Director of the Boehm Gallery and Professor at Palomar College, and Jennifer Zwilling, Curator of Artistic Programs at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, about marketing the arts on Measured Thoughts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Harbir Singh talk with the authors of the new book “Managing Discovery in the Life Sciences: Harnessing Creativity to Drive Biomedical Innovation” on Mastering Innovation. Authors are: Philip Rea, Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, Mark Pauly, Professor of Health Care Management and of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, and Lawton R Burns (Rob), Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.