This Week in Business

The Trump Administration recently announced that it will impose a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels. Host Dan Loney talks with Mauro Guillen, Director of Wharton's Lauder Institute, and Matt Gold, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, to discuss the tariffs which has some worried it will cost jobs in the solar energy industry and hurt the nation's push toward renewable energy on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Kingsbury, Head Coach of the Canadian Olympic Women’s Curling Team, joins hosts Cade Massey, Shane Jensen, Adi Wyner, and Eric Bradlow to discuss the sport of curling, from analytics to preparation for the Olympics on Wharton Moneyball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Donald Trump gave the keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, but the Europeans were trying to counterbalance the U.S. in the days leading up to this speech with messages against European growth. Host Dan Loney talks with Olivier Chatain, Professor at HEC Paris and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Steven Silvia, Professor of International Service at American University's School of International Service, to discuss what leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been promoting on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New York City filed a lawsuit against the distributors and manufacturers of opioid prescription drugs, including Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and McKesson. As the manufacturer-to-consumer pipeline is muddied, recent attention is focused on how the recent opioid crisis could have been prevented. Host Dan Loney talks with William Evans, Professor and Department Chair Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, and Ethan Lieber, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss their recent study "How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic” to take a look at some of the causes and potential remedies of this crisis on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Conference Board recently released it's "C-Suite Challenge™ 2018: Reinventing the Organization for the Digital Age", polling more than 1,000 CEO and C-Suite executives. Rebecca Ray, Executive Vice President of the Knowledge Organization at The Conference Board, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Iwan Barankay to discuss the results of the survey and what weighs heavily on CEO's minds for 2018 on In the Workplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author Daniel Pink joins host Dan Loney to discuss his latest book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" which helps people analyze their own perfect timing for productivity on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carl Schramm, a Professor at Syracuse University, joins hosts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Saikat Chaudhuri to discuss his new book "BURN THE BUSINESS PLAN: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do" on Mastering Innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joanna Barsh, Director Emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of the Centered Leadership Project, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss her book "Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges" to help people succeed in their careers when things don't pan out as expected on Work and Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Della Clark, President and CEO of The Enterprise Center, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss their mission to cultivate and invest in minority entrepreneurs to inspire working together for economic growth in communities on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon released a narrowed down list of the twenty potential candidates for its second headquarters. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeffrey Shulman, Professor of Marketing at the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, and Tom Buerkle, Associate Editor at Thomson-Reuters News Service, to discuss what cities made the list and why on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.