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A new sensor that can be embedded into your smartphone will smell your breath and tell you how many calories you’re burning in real-time. It sounds like a gadget out of a sci-fi movie but it has the potential to advance modern day health care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In his new bestseller ’David and Goliath: Underdogs Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants ’ Malcolm Gladwell challenges our fundamental assumptions about power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Roni Einav one of Israel’s most successful software entrepreneurs believes in balancing instincts and education. You must not be afraid of making mistakes he tells Knowledge at Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sajan Pillai CEO of California-based IT company UST Global is trying to play a catalyst’s role in job creation in the U.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Feinberg co-founder of the Knowledge is Power Program -- better known as KIPP -- discusses the factors behind its success and how the organization has evolved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Land prices in China have been rising very rapidly. It will be difficult to maintain the pace but don’t expect a slump says Wharton’s Joseph Gyourko. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A new book by Stewart D. Friedman founding director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project reveals the surprising results of a 20-year study into men’s and women’s changing views on work and family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Often shareholder value trumps all when it comes to measuring corporate success. But focusing too much on the short term can hurt a business over the long run says Wharton’s Eric W. Orts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Honest Tea founders Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff discuss how they created a financially sustainable company that serves a mission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It’s been a good 10-year run for fast-growing emerging markets. But now many of them face severe economic imbalances and slowing growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Two of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics espouse theories that may appear to be polar opposites but Wharton’s Amir Yaron suggests they are in fact complementary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Former Revlon CEO Alan Ennis says the challenge today is reaching the right consumer at the right time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
President Obama and the Treasury Department have options available to help them avoid worst-case outcomes at least for the near term according to Wharton’s Franklin Allen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Reza Aslan’s new book ’Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth ’ paints Jesus as a revolutionary as well as a spiritual leader. Wharton professor G. Richard Shell talked with Aslan about Jesus’s leadership qualities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wharton professor G. Richard Shell’s new book Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success encourages readers to embrace major transitions in life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The eurozone’s economy has begun a fragile turnaround since European Central Bank head Mario Draghi announced late last year that the institution would do “whatever it takes” to backstop the euro. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A new start-up CommonBond is trying to revolutionize America’s student loan market by offering competitive loans via alumni investors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This second part of a two-part podcast on the new face of private equity (PE) in Africa looks at the areas of the economy most ripe for growth and also at some business models that PE firms are pursuing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The executive director of the Wilderness Foundation discusses his organization’s success integrating social programs into its mission and the important role that conservation has to play in Africa’s economic development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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According to the United Nations tourism organization there were one billion international trips taken during 2012 alone. In a new book titled Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism journalist ElizabethBecker traces the history of tourism and points to the challenges facing the fast-growing industry which currently contributes $6.5 trillion to the world’s economy. In an interview with Knowledge at Wharton Becker discusses the role that both individuals and countries must play as...
How did IBM General Electric and other companies become growth leaders? Why is it that some companies lag behind -- and stay behind? Those are the questions that Wharton marketing professor George S. Day asks and answers in his book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth. Recently Day spoke with David Heckman practice leader senior management at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education about why innovation prowess is the key to growth leadership. (V...
A Pew study last year confirmed that U.S. political partisanship has risen sharply. In the face of that trend is it possible for Democrats and Republicans to get along? Wharton professor Philip Tetlock recently spoke with Jonathan Haidt author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion to explore this question. Haidt breaks down why it is so hard for liberals and conservatives to understand one another and what can be done to change that. (Video with transcript) ...
In Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work bestselling authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that humans don’t have a particularly strong track record of making good choices -- whether it is about our careers business matters or our personal lives. Knowledge at Wharton recently had an opportunity to talk with Chip about how widening your options reality-testing your assumptions attaining distance before deciding and preparing to be wrong can make all the difference. (Podcast with ...
According to Barbara Kahn director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at Wharton the increasing popularity of social media has two implications for marketers: First customers now control the message and second companies must make sure that key elements of their brand can translate throughout the world. In a recent interview with Wharton MBA candidate Alexandra Idol Kahn discusses her new book Global Brand Power: Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth why the brand is a ”mechanism for growth”...
In their ebook The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook Ian C. MacMillan a Wharton management professor and James Thompson director of the Wharton Social Enterprise Program offer specific suggestions to strengthen the effectiveness of social enterprises. In the second of a two-part interview the authors discuss how two African social enterprises -- one in the chicken feeds business and the other in the sanitation industry -- used a five-step process to maximize the social and business impact of their ...
LEGO has built a global empire and become a household name thanks to the interlocking bricks that its founders developed half a century ago. But the company almost went belly up in the early 2000s due to an innovation binge that took it too far away from what LEGO did best. In a new book Wharton practice professor David Robertson details how thinking too far ”outside the box” almost bankrupted LEGO -- and how the company found a winning formula by turning to innovation ”inside the brick.” (Video...
Studies put the failure rate of organizational change at 70% or higher. Yet managers face increasing pressure to implement change to meet short- and long-term goals. Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon share their approach to dealing with this challenge in Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work. Jeff Klein director of the Wharton Graduate Leadership Program recently spoke with the authors about why we are not as good at change as we need to be and how we can get better at it. ...
In the past few years the United States government has issued fewer regulations and worked to eliminate or improve existing ones. Cass R. Sunstein led many of these changes as administrator for the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In his new book Simpler: The Future of Government Sunstein talks about how a more streamlined government can improve health lengthen lives and save money. Wharton operations and information management professor Katherine L. Milkman recently spo...
Social entrepreneurs -- those who try to tackle major social problems such as poverty and disease while generating revenues -- are often well-meaning people. But in their desire to make a difference to society they sometimes fail to subject their ideas to rigorous tests. Ian MacMillan a professor of management at Wharton and James Thompson who leads the Wharton Social Enterprise Program have just published an ebook titled The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook to help entrepreneurs do just that. (Vi...
