This Week in Business

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the future of the Affordable Care Act. In the first two years of the Trump Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, the ACA was challenged on a variety of fronts including the tax bill. Passed just over a year ago, the bill removed the health insurance mandate leading to the recent ruling by a federal judge in Texas that the ACA was unconstitutional. A coalition of 17 Democratic State Attorneys General is appealing that ruling and the new Democrat-controlled House is looking at ways to protect the healthcare law. Host Dan Loney examines all sides of the arguments with Mark Pauly, Health Management Professor at Wharton, Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at Wharton, and Robert Field, Professor of Law and of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University, on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the current situation in China. The second biggest economy in the world is in the midst of a trade war with the United States that's starting to have a palpable impact as recently Apple reported its iPhone sales were lower than expected in China. And auto sales declined in 2018, which demonstrates the first retreat for that sector in two decades. And numerous other companies are pulling back on their growth forecasts as well. The U.S. and China called a 90-day ceasefire on imposing new tariffs that started in December, and have announced they will hold ministerial level talks in Beijing next week. If no agreement is reached by the March deadline, the U.S. could proceed with new tariffs and China will likely retaliate. Host Dan Loney talks with Minyuan Zhao, Associate Professor of Management at Wharton, and Jacque DeLisle, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at University of Pennsylvania, about where China is headed in the New Year on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the Mueller Investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election. Thirty-three people have either been indicted or have pled guilty so far, including five former advisers to the president. We don't yet know whether President Donald Trump himself, or anyone within his inner circle, colluded with Moscow. Media outlets report that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is almost done with his investigation and could turn in his report to the Justice Department within the next several weeks. Host Dan Loney talks with Philip Nichols, Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Legal Studies in Business the Wharton School, and William Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, white collar criminologist and former financial regulator, about what impact this report could have on the White House and where the investigation may lead on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Knowledge@Wharton on Business Radio is featuring an interview series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and begin with a look at Brexit, the United Kingdom's move to leave the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May had worked out a deal with the EU but couldn't get a majority within her own party to support it, particularly among the hardline “Brexiteers.” A new vote is expected in the coming weeks. Host Dan Loney talks with Brendan O’Leary, Political Science Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Michelle Egan, Professor in the School of International Service at American University and Global Fellow at The Wilson Center, to discuss the current trajectory of Brexit in 2019 on Knowledge@Wharton.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bay Area Ventures welcomes a new weekly contributor, Owen Thomas, Business Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, host Doug Collom talks in depth with Owen to explore the current pulse of San Francisco, chatting about Unicorns and Exits among Bay Area companies, hypergrowth in the city, and homelessness and Proposition C on Bay Area Ventures. Owen's weekly contribution, "Bay Area Beat," will start this Monday 1/7/19 at 7PM Eastern with Bay Area Ventures, occurring the first ten minutes of every show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Anne Greenhalgh talks with David Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and Director of the Health and Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania,about his research into the history of the Lazaretto quarantine station (1799-1895) on the Delaware River outside Philadelphia—the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere and the seventh oldest in the world, on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts Eric Bradlow and Adi Wyner talk with Jeremy Lin, Guard for the Atlanta Hawks, about his basketball career which started in the Ivy League and about the role of personal and team analytics in basketball on Wharton Moneyball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Wharton School and World Bank Group have formed a partnership, Ideas for Action Initiative (I4A), to focus on growing entrepreneurship in Africa by connecting young leaders all around the world to help find solutions to local problems. Host Dan Loney talks with Djordjija Petkoski, Co-Chair of I4A and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, and Michelle Jaffee, current senior at Wharton studying Operations and Social Impact and Responsibility and leader of the I4A Accelerator at Penn, to learn more about this initiative. Ariane Umuringa, Rwandan social entrepreneur and Founder of Starlight, also joins us to discuss her mission to reduce use of kerosene lamps in Rwandan villages, helped by I4A, on Knowledge@Wharton. Learn more at http://www.ideas4action.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Looking for books to give as gifts this year? Host Dan Loney explores the "Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers List," an annual report published by the Penn Graduate School of Education, with author of the report Elizabeth Ebony Thomas, Associate Professor at Penn's Graduate School of Education, and doctoral student Christopher Rogers, on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust," leads a two-part discussion with blockchain experts on After the Blockchain Bubble. Guests this hour include: Tim Swanson, Founder of fintech advisory firm Post Oak Labs; Caitlin Long, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, former Chairman and President of Symbiont.io, the market-leading smart contracts platform for financial sector uses of blockchain technology; Tonya Evans, Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Chair of the Intellectual Property & Technology Online Programs; Marco Santori, President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain, the world's largest wallet and the leading software platform for digital assets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.