This Week in Business

Bay Area Ventures welcomes a new weekly contributor, Owen Thomas, Business Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, host Doug Collom talks in depth with Owen to explore the current pulse of San Francisco, chatting about Unicorns and Exits among Bay Area companies, hypergrowth in the city, and homelessness and Proposition C on Bay Area Ventures. Owen's weekly contribution, "Bay Area Beat," will start this Monday 1/7/19 at 7PM Eastern with Bay Area Ventures, occurring the first ten minutes of every show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Anne Greenhalgh talks with David Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and Director of the Health and Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania,about his research into the history of the Lazaretto quarantine station (1799-1895) on the Delaware River outside Philadelphia—the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere and the seventh oldest in the world, on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts Eric Bradlow and Adi Wyner talk with Jeremy Lin, Guard for the Atlanta Hawks, about his basketball career which started in the Ivy League and about the role of personal and team analytics in basketball on Wharton Moneyball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Wharton School and World Bank Group have formed a partnership, Ideas for Action Initiative (I4A), to focus on growing entrepreneurship in Africa by connecting young leaders all around the world to help find solutions to local problems. Host Dan Loney talks with Djordjija Petkoski, Co-Chair of I4A and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, and Michelle Jaffee, current senior at Wharton studying Operations and Social Impact and Responsibility and leader of the I4A Accelerator at Penn, to learn more about this initiative. Ariane Umuringa, Rwandan social entrepreneur and Founder of Starlight, also joins us to discuss her mission to reduce use of kerosene lamps in Rwandan villages, helped by I4A, on Knowledge@Wharton. Learn more at http://www.ideas4action.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Looking for books to give as gifts this year? Host Dan Loney explores the "Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers List," an annual report published by the Penn Graduate School of Education, with author of the report Elizabeth Ebony Thomas, Associate Professor at Penn's Graduate School of Education, and doctoral student Christopher Rogers, on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust," leads a two-part discussion with blockchain experts on After the Blockchain Bubble. Guests this hour include: Tim Swanson, Founder of fintech advisory firm Post Oak Labs; Caitlin Long, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, former Chairman and President of Symbiont.io, the market-leading smart contracts platform for financial sector uses of blockchain technology; Tonya Evans, Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Chair of the Intellectual Property & Technology Online Programs; Marco Santori, President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain, the world's largest wallet and the leading software platform for digital assets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business Radio Special: Cryptocurrency prices have crashed and blockchain killer applications have not taken off yet. What comes next? Will we look back on this time as the end of an overhyped fad, or a speed bump in the development of a major technological revolution? What will the blockchain and cryptocurrency world look like going forward? Wharton Professor Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust," leads a two-part discussion with blockchain experts on After the Blockchain Bubble. Guests this hour include: Michael Casey, Senior Advisor at MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and Chairman of CoinDesk's Advisory Board; Jalak Jobanputra, Founding Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures, one of the first blockchain-focused VC funds; Amber Baldet, Co-Founder and CEO at Clovyr, a startup composed of a suite of tools for blockchain applications and services for development teams to deploy products to the cloud or on-site production environments, and former leader of the JPMorgan Blockchain Center of Excellence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Chambers, Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and former CEO and Chairman of Cisco Systems, joins host Mike Useem to discuss his book Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World, in which he shares the management, leadership and business principles that brought him and his teams unmatched success for decades on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Benoit Dube is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, Associate Vice Provost, and the inaugural Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dube joins host Stew Friedman to discuss what he's enacted his first few months in his role of Chief Wellness Officer at Penn, as well as the importance of creating a culture of wellness, decreasing the stigma associated with mental illness, and making it easier for people to ask for help on Work and Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dolly Chugh, a Psychologist and Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and NYU's Stern School of Business, joins hosts Anne Greenhalgh and Jeff Klein to discuss her new book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, about how and why most of us are still prone to race and gender bias on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.