This Week in Business

Host Sam Chandan talks with Michael Fratantoni, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research and Industry Technology at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), to discuss the US mortgage outlook for 2018 on the Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been 6 months since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and knocked out all power, on top of many casualties. Is Puerto Rico back up and running? Host Dan Loney talks with Carlos Suarez Carrasquillo, Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies Program at the University of Florida and Carla Minet, Journalist and Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, to discuss the current state of Puerto Rico and it's restoration efforts so far on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The National Association for Female Executives (NFAE) released a report earlier this month listing the top 70 companies for executive women. Host Laura Zarrow talks with Subha Barry, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Working Mother Media, to shine a light on companies that promote and support female executives as highlighted in the report on Women@Work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Cade Massey is Live from the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2018, where he interviews attendees about what data influences organizations when making employee decisions such as hiring/firing, organizational structure, assessing culture, etc. Interviewees: Elena Botelho, Partner at ghSMART and Author of "The CEO Next Door"; Steve Kaplan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business; Brad Grant, VP of Baseball Operations, Strategy & Administration for the Cleveland Indians; and Michael Metzger, Senior Managing Director at Teach for America.Over two days, Wharton PAC’s speakers, panel discussions, and competitions provide a unique opportunity to learn from industry and academic leaders through thought provoking sessions. Learn how the latest research connects to organizational decision making and engage in discussions with leading practitioners.wpa.wharton.upenn.edu/conference/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Trump revealed a new plan to tackle the opioid crisis in the US: offering the death penalty to certain drug dealers responsible for hundreds of deaths via their illegal distribution of these drugs. Host Dan Loney talks with Dr. Evan Anderson, Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Senior Fellow at Penn's Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI), and Dr. Anita Gupta, Princeton University Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, to discuss Trump's plan and additional elements around this issue such as how current and future patients who may need opioids for pain relief will be treated on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wharton Finance Professor Jeremy Siegel, Host of Behind the Markets, leads a discussion with Janet L. Yellen, Distinguished Fellow at The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and Former Chair of the Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as brought to you by the Howard Crawley Memorial Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brad Grossman, Founder and CEO of Zeitguide, joins host Americus Reed to discuss marketing trends noted in this year’s Zeitguide report, including the potential end of the CMO, on Maketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Australia hasn’t had a mass shooting event since 1996, after a law was introduced to curb firearm deaths. Requirements owning a gun were strengthened, including a 28 days wait period, an extensive background check, and only handguns available to citizens. Host Dan Loney talks with Postdoctoral Researchers at Wharton’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ Ben Ukert and Elena Andreyeva, who are looking at long-term prevention of firearm injuries in their paper, “Association Between Gun Law Reforms and Intentional Firearm Deaths in Australia” on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Pfeffer, Stanford University Professor, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss this question and more, addressed in his new book "Dying for a Paycheck" on Work and Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Penn Wharton Budget Model's dynamic analysis of investment in public infrastructure was released following the White House release of President Trump's plans. Recently the administration criticized the PWBM's calling it "flawed" and suggesting "one cannot help but question whether the authors who produced it had any bias.” Host Dan Loney speaks with Kent Smetters, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School and Faculty Director of the PWBM, to discuss how PWBM has responded to this criticism and why they're confident in their model projections on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.