This Week in Business

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIPs Cory Bray and Hilmon Sorey, Co-Founders of Clozeloop, a knowledge management platform for sales teams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIP Fahad Jalal, the Founder and CEO of SitterFriends, a childcare service that provides on-demand nannies and babysitters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doug Collom and Irina Yuen host a special Bay Area Ventures interviewing teams that recently graduated from the Wharton Venture Initiation Accelerator Program (VIP) for Bay Area startups. Wharton VIP Joanne Jiang, Co-Founder of LadyMarry, a virtual wedding planner app that helps you plan your big day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Slowe, Chief Technology Officer and Founding Engineer at Reddit, joins hosts Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss his career and how Reddit was founded on Bay Area Ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, Amazon Go opened its doors in Seattle with cameras and sensors instead of cashiers, shopping carts or checkout lines. Host Dan Loney talks with Barbara Kahn, Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, and Ryan Hamilton, Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University to discuss how this store could define the future of retail on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new comprehensive report by the national Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, concludes vaping e-cigarettes containing nicotine can be addictive. It also states this may put teenagers who use them at a high risk of smoking. Host Dan Loney talks with Adam Leventhal, Author of this report and Director of the University of California's Health, Emotion & Addiction Laboratory, and David Savitz, Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health who helped put this report together, to discuss the findings on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Bon Ku, Assistant Dean for Health and Design at Jefferson University and TEDx Speaker, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss how JeffDESIGN (College Design Track) teaches students to apply design thinking to solve healthcare challenges and redesign healthcare systems, services, spaces and medical devices on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Home Depot became the latest business to offer its employees bonuses allegedly in response to the tax overhaul. Host Dan Loney talks with Alan Auerbach, Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California Berkeley, and Daniel Hemel, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School to discuss why corporations are passing out bonuses instead of raising wages and the financial impact of the new law on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Damon Jones, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Ivan Barankay to discuss his latest study "What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do?" on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aaron Terrazas, Senior Economist at Zillow, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss what’s ahead for the real estate market in 2018, some of the barriers to continued growth—including a lack of inventory, and his thoughts on Amazon HQ2's city selection process on The Real Estate Hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.