This Week in Business

Renters made up the almost 43 billion US households in 2016. As demand for rentals is on the rise, price increases have outpaced median household income growth. According to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a third of renters are now spending over 30 percent of there income on rent. Host Dan Loney talks with Erin Currier, Director of Pew's Family Financial Security and Mobility Project and it's Student Borrower Success Project, to discuss these findings and more on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One for the World is a new organization that helps young professionals chose where their charitable donation can have the greatest impact using a rigorous data-driven selection process. Host Dan Loney talks with the two Wharton graduates who co-founded this organization, Josh McCann, Associate Syndications Officer at the International Finance Corporation, and Kate Epstein, Engagement Manager at L.E.K. Consulting, to discuss how they are growing their impact and making charitable giving easy and effective on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Northern Ireland's border with the Republic of Ireland is a major issue as Brexit negotiations continue. The customs union has become a important aspect to Prime Minister Theresa May's dealings with the House of Lords and with the European Union. Host Dan Loney talks with Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science 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 latest in the impending Brexit on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

French President Emmanuel Macron is the first leader to make an official state visit to the US under the Trump Administration. Host Dan Loney speaks with Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University, and Olivier Chatain, Associate Professor Strategy and Business Policy Department at HEC Paris and a Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, to discuss what goals Macron has in mind for his meetings with President Trump on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recently, Wells Fargo bank was recently fined a total of $1 billion dollars to two federal regulators. Host Dan Loney talks with David Zaring, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, Christopher Peterson, John J. Flynn Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Utah and former Special Advisor in the Office of the Director at the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Cindy Schipani, Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Business Law at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, to discuss whether these fines were too steep, or not steep enough, and how Wells Fargo got itself into hot water on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50 years ago, the United States Congress was trying to cut back on voting rights, housing and welfare regulations, and civil rights and entitlement programs. President, Lyndon B. Johnson was losing the Vietnam War, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Host Dan Loney speaks with Kyle Longley, The Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at Arizona State University, to discuss his new book, "LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval" on Knowledge@Wharton. Longley believes that no other year - except maybe 1929 - had hosted such turmoil and describes all the events and their affects on our society a half-century later in this new book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An entrepreneurial American Dream come true: Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac, Co-Founders of Cousins Maine Lobster, speak with host Dan Loney to share their story of growth and their new book Cousins Maine Lobster: How One Food Truck Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Christian Terwiesch talks about the current innovation in the insurance world and what the future of insurance could look like with Mark Pitchford, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at Esurance, and Kyle Nakatsuji, Co-Founder and CEO of Clearcover on Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave Johnson, Director for the Penn Relays, joins host George Perry to discuss the prolific Penn sporting event that features more than 15,000 participants from high schools, colleges, and track clubs throughout North America and abroad, competing in more than 300 events over three days on The Wharton Sports Business Show. Penn Relays 2018 is April 26-28; for more info: http://thepennrelays.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amol Navathe, Leonard Davis Institute Senior Fellow and Perelman School of medicine Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, joins host Dan Loney to discuss his new research looking at hospital savings in the first year of hip and knee surgery mandatory bundled payments, explaining how these findings affect health care organizations, clinicians and policy makers on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.