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Knowledge at Wharton

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The Knowledge at Wharton Network Acast feed serves as a curated showcase highlighting the best content from our podcast collection. Each week, we feature one standout episode from each show in the Wharton Podcast Network, giving listeners a comprehensive sample of our diverse business and academic content. This rotating selection allows audiences to discover new shows within our network while experiencing the depth and variety of Wharton's thought leadership across different topics and formats. It's your monthly gateway to explore the full spectrum of insights available through the Wharton Podcast Network.

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Episodes

Sold to the Highest Bidder: Why Sotheby’s Is Going Private

The sale of Sotheby’s will ultimately benefit the firm and it underscores the increasing importance of new markets online sales and AI in the art auction business experts say. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 25, 201927 min

The Science of Breakthroughs: What Holds Some Ideas Back?

New Wharton research looks at the spread of breakthroughs in the life sciences offering new insights on why some ideas take off and others fade away. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 25, 201918 min

Trade War Casualty: Why the Days of Cheap Chinese Goods Are Over

Hundreds of businesses are calling on President Trump to cancel his threat to increase tariffs on Chinese goods. Regardless of the outcome an ongoing trade war will result in permanent adjustments of supply chains and prices experts say. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 24, 201925 min

How Localization Can Help Overcome Extreme Poverty

The World Bank Group’s Mahmoud Mohieldin believes innovative financing and partnerships are needed to meet the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 20, 201928 min

Who Can Stop Facebook? Limiting the Power of Social Media

In his new book early Facebook investor Roger McNamee sounds the alarm about the platform’s growing economic and political power and offers suggestions for stopping it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 20, 201920 min

Is Your Team Culturally Competent?

In his new book series consultant Dean Foster offers practical advice for companies on how to gain cultural competency in a global marketplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 20, 201926 min

What’s the Next Chapter for Barnes & Noble?

A hedge fund wants to buy the bookstore chain for $683 million including debt. Will the deal work? Experts from Wharton and elsewhere share their insights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 201923 min

Opioid Settlements: Why Insys Is the Tip of the Iceberg

Drug manufacturers who face large settlements from the opioid crisis could follow the Insys example and file for bankruptcy protection experts say. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 201925 min

Why Automakers Are Driving for Uniform Fuel Efficiency Standards

Having more than one fuel efficiency standard in the U.S. puts automakers in a bad position in terms of planning investments and adopting new technologies. Is there a middle ground that will work for regulators and auto companies alike? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 14, 201927 min

How to Curb Workplace Incivility

Penn Medicine’s new Campaign for Professionalism is designed to curb workplace incivility through a clear code of conduct and an open channel of communication for employees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 13, 201923 min

Can Wearables Convince Patients to Be More Proactive?

Johnson & Johnson has partnered with Apple to research whether the tech company’s smartwatch can be used to help with early detection of atrial fibrillation a dangerous heart condition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 12, 201923 min

When and How Entrepreneurs Pivot

Wharton’s Jacqueline Kirtley studied seven early-stage firms in the energy and cleantech sector to learn how strategic changes actually play out in the startup world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 11, 201931 min

Regulating Big Tech: Is a Day of Reckoning Coming?

Big Tech firms like Facebook Amazon and Google have unorthodox business models and the law has to catch up to protect consumers and small businesses say experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 11, 201927 min

How You Can Use Conflict to Build a Better Team

In her new book psychologist and business strategist Liane Davey extols the virtues of office conflict and explains how to use friction as a force for good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 06, 201926 min

How to Reduce the Ballooning U.S. Debt -- With Bipartisan Support

Reducing the $22 trillion U.S. debt is critical to the nation’s future but politics have been a hindrance. Brookings’ William Gale has a plan that might be able to get bipartisan support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 04, 201924 min

Using Public-private Partnerships to Tackle Extreme Poverty

Early experiences in Asia and Africa show that finding a voice for development issues in corporate strategies is a precursor to raising money say experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 31, 201935 min

Anger at Work: How Negative Emotions Cloud Judgment

New Wharton research reveals that angry people often lose the ability to see problems from another point of view. This can hamper efforts to resolve conflict. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 31, 201922 min

How to Jumpstart U.S. Innovation and Job Creation

R&D properly coordinated among businesses universities and government is a powerful force for innovation and job creation notes this new book co-authored by former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 31, 201923 min

How Financial Regulators Can Better Protect Consumers

Richard Cordray the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first director describes the state of consumer protection today and what should be done to strengthen it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 30, 201925 min

Why Manufacturers Should Embrace Digitization

Digitizing operations brings big advantages to manufacturers and will become the de facto way of competing says Jonathan Van Wyck of the Boston Consulting Group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 30, 201924 min

Health Care’s Compassion Crisis: Caring Makes a Difference

There is clear evidence in biomedical literature that compassion drives better outcomes for patients doctors and business notes author and physician Stephen Trzeciak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 29, 201927 min

Under Modi 2.0 Will India Embrace Tough Economic Reforms?

Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies won India’s elections by a landslide last week. Will the Modi government use this “second chance” to strengthen India’s economy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 28, 201929 min
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