This Week in Business

Consumers today have a strong preference for messaging as their primary mode of communication. Helpshift has designed an intelligent customer service platform around providing B2C brands with the most seamless digital messaging experience on web and mobile. Linda Crawford, CEO of Helpshift, joins host Doug Collom to discuss her leadership of Helpshift and in other prior customer-service based companies on Bay Area Ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A report published by the Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD) and Deloitte, "Missing Pieces", shows that the number of women and minorities on boards at Fortune 500 companies was at an all-time high in 2018. In fact, well over half of Fortune 500 boards have reached diversity levels of at least 30 percent women and minorities on their boards. That’s progress, but the flip side is that means 70 percent of the board is made up of white males. So what can we do? Deb DeHaas, Vice Chairman and National Managing partner of the Center for Board Effectiveness at Deloitte, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss the implications of this report of Women@Work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is currently a race between the Earth’s rapidly warming temperature and humans discovering ways to fight and adapt to climate change. Jeremy Grantham, Chief Investment Strategist and Chairman of the Board at GMO, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss his mission to help humans "win" the race against climate change, how his generous donations to various research organizations will make an impact, and why not taking this race seriously will be deadly on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Janet Alvarez, Executive Editor of Wisebread and an anchor for WHYY/ NPR, joins host Prof Kent Smetters to discuss her recent Wisebread article called “How to Pay Off These 4 Types of Debt”, including strategies for tackling credit card debt, student loans, and more on Your Money.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When people find out they have a serious illness, it’s natural that they think of doing whatever it takes to prolong their lives. But the very methods of prolonging life sometimes means more pain and suffering for the patient. Host Dan Loney talks with Dr. Sunita Puri, Medical Director of Palliative Care and Support Care Services at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center at the University of Southern California, about her mission to bridge medical care for devastating diseases and providing comfort and relief for the patient. Her new memoir, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in The Eleventh Hour, reflects on her own journey and examines how the field is evolving as patients and family members are looking forward to quality of life over quantity of time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How often do you order delivery for a meal? According to data from research firm NPD Group Inc. and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, around 82 percent of meals were prepared at home last year, which is up by two percent from a decade ago. But there has also been a huge increase in people getting food delivered for meals. Now, you can get food from just about any type of restaurant and thanks to services like Grubhub, Seamless and Caviar, as well as online ordering systems, it's an option that’s spreading to all parts of the country. Host Dan Loney talks with Heather Haddon, Food and Retail Policy Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, to discuss her reporting on this shifting food delivery industry on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Rebecca Newton, Organizational and Social Psychologist and Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, joins hosts Mike Useem and Anne Greenhalgh to discuss her new book, "Authentic Gravitas: Who Stands Out and Why", which explains how you can be an effective leader without having to change who you are as a person on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Host Joey Zwillinger, Wharton Alum and Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Allbirds, talks with Nick Leschly, CEO of Bluebird Bio, about their mission to heal people on a genetic level with targeted gene therapy on Purpose Built.Tune in on Business Radio SiriusXM 132 and Insights SiriusXM 121 for more great content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keith Wardrip, Community Development Research Manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, discusses his research on opportunity occupations — employment opportunities for those without a bachelor's degree — on Behind the Markets, hosted by Jeremy Schwartz. You can find the report here: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/community-development/publications/special-reports/identifying_opportunity_occupations/opportunity_occupations_revisited.pdf?la=en.You can check out our special podcast collaboration with the Philadelphia Fed here: https://shows.pippa.io/philadelphia-fed-on-whartonPhiladelphia Fed on Wharton Business Radio airs as a special series of interviews on Business Radio, SiriusXM Channel 132. This podcast is brought to you by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Business Radio, powered by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Business Radio broadcasts LIVE each year from MBA Reunion Weekend at Wharton. In this special edition of Knowledge@Wharton, host Dan Loney speaks with Wharton Alum Adam Slohn, VP of Production Systems, Warner Bros. Technology, about his career journey from Wharton to Warner Bros. and how he uses innovative technology to support live action and animated films all around the world! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.