

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.