This Week in Business

Retail isn’t all store closings and bankruptcies. Legacy retailers and direct-to-consumer startups alike are transforming their businesses through innovative technology, partnerships and more. Wharton Marketing Prof and Baker Retailing Center Academic Director Tom Robertson, and Baker Retailing Center Managing Director Mina Fader, discuss the challenges and opportunities retailers face in a time of transformation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wharton Professor Kent Smetters discusses the Penn Wharton Budget Model's analysis of Senator Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax. They found that Warren's proposal would shrink the economy between .09 and 2.1 percent by 2050, and raise roughly $1.0 to $1.4 trillion less than Warren's campaign estimate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates founded their pathbreaking companies when they were still in their teens. Steve Jobs founded Apple at 21. Their stories, which get a lot of media attention, have many believing that younger entrepreneurs are the most successful. However, research from Wharton management professor Daniel Kim shows they are exceptions to the rule, and that the average age of successful entrepreneurs is actually a lot older.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh Hermsmeyer, Writer for FiveThirtyEight and Founder of AirYards.com where he works on all things football analytics, joins hosts Cade Massey, Shane Jensen, Eric Bradlow, and Adi Wyner to discuss his predictions for the current NFL season and the analytics backing him up on Wharton Moneyball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Safi Bahcall, pysicist and biotech entrepreneur, joins host Harbir Singh on Mastering Innovation to discuss his book “Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries”, which explores groundbreaking innovations that almost never saw the light of day! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patrick Harker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a former Wharton dean, joins Mukul Pandya of Knowledge@Wharton to discuss the July 2019 decrease of the Federal Interest Rate and the current state of the US economy in this special podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nir Eyal has been dubbed "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology" by the MIT Technology Review. Nir joins host Americus Reed to discuss his best-selling book on consumer behavior "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" on Marketing Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexis Stenfors joins host Dan Loney on Knowledge@Wharton to discuss how he went from being a currency trader at Merrill Lynch in London to being banned from trading after he tried to cover up huge mistakes, costing him around $456 million USD. His story is documented in his book, "Barometer of Fear: An Insider’s Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History." Alexis is now a lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, teaching economics and finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Despite the fact that 55% of our time is spent listening, deep listening is a skill that only 2% of people really grasp. Oscar Trimboli, Professional speaker, mentor, and author, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Greg Shea on In the Workplace to discuss his book on how we can practice and apply deep listening, and how doing so can prevent miscommunications and their effects in the workplace such as job turnover and lost sales. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many security experts believe that the next world war will most likely involve cyberspace. Considering the numbers of hacks and cyber attacks we read about in the news, as well as attacks that impact critical infrastructure like hospitals and banks. All of these events carry real world impact. This activity is taking place in what the Pentagon calls “The Fifth Domain.” A new book called "The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats" looks how we must think about protecting all of these critical elements. Richard Clarke, co-author of the book, joins host Dan Loney to discuss these considerations on Knowleddge@Wharton. Clarke spent 30 years in the U.S. government, including as White House counter terrorism coordinator under President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. And he was the first White House Official to be in charge of U.S. cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.