Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Roben Farzad
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May 3, 2019 • 59min

Building Panera

Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich on growing the hit restaurant chain. He now manages Act III Holdings, a $300 million fund that invests in brands focused on long-term results.
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Apr 26, 2019 • 59min

Lesson Plan

Richmond Public Schools superintendent and former teacher Jason Kamras on bridging the educational opportunity gap faced by low-income and minority children -- 65 years after the Supreme Court ruled to desegregate schools.
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Apr 18, 2019 • 59min

Overcrowded, Under-Led

A year and a half ahead of its hotly anticipated rematch against Donald Trump, the Democratic Party abounds with presidential hopefuls -- but lacks one clear leader who can rally coalitions the way Barack Obama did. A roundtable of party activists discusses the road ahead.
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Apr 10, 2019 • 59min

Corporate Affairs

Bestselling author and screenwriter T.J. English (Havana Nocturne, The Westies, NYPD Blue) on the bolita mafia's emergence from the wreckage of the Cold War -- the subject of his book, The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban-American Underworld.
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Apr 3, 2019 • 59min

Media Folk

NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on all things streaming, ATT-Time Warner, newspapers, Apple News+, CNN, Fox News, "login fatigue" -- and Elmo taking his talents to HBO.
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Mar 28, 2019 • 59min

What a Waste ...

Recycling's Rude Reckoning: With China turning away Americans' bottles and cartons, the stuff is piling up and increasingly being landfilled or incinerated. Kate Daly of the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners and James McGoff of TemperPack, a sustainable packaging startup, on the hard choices needed to dig out.
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Mar 22, 2019 • 59min

Ad-venturous Mom

Kristen Cavallo, the first female CEO of the Martin Agency, on leading the 52-year old advertising shop out of its #MeToo crisis. We discussed the work-life juggle of single motherhood; the ad industry's nagging existential doubts; and getting brands to actually stand for (or against) something.
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Mar 14, 2019 • 59min

Juice Journey

A single mother, family tragedy and the grit she and her community tapped to build her small juice business into what she hopes will become a national chain.
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Mar 7, 2019 • 59min

Bizzy Times

NY Times business editor Ellen Pollock on the headlines: the bull market at age 10; Facebook and Tesla's latest pivots; AT&T and Jeff Bezos trying to do Hollywood; GE's lost decades; the huge trade deficit; the hiring binge across biz news ... and much more.
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Feb 26, 2019 • 59min

Seed Capital

Can you do right by local farmers and the earth and do well for yourself? Livestock farmer Erica Hellen of Free Union Grass Farm and microlender Hunter Hopcroft ("Microcroft") of Slow Money Central Virginia explain how.

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