This Week in Business

Host Laura Zarrow speaks to Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group (which owns OkCupid, Match.com and Tinder, and others), Live at the 20th annual Wharton Women in Business Summit 2018. Mandy discusses how she's navigated her leadership career amidst "bro culture" and gender stereotypes on Women@Work.Wharton Women in Business (WWIB) is a professional organization that strives to expand career, leadership and networking opportunities for women studying at Wharton. Their annual conference brings together some of the country’s sharpest female business leaders to discuss relevant issues, in addition to creating a unique networking space for students to engage with employers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cat Hoke, Founder of nonprofits Defy Ventures and Prison Entrepreneurship Program, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss her new book "A Second Chance: For You, for Me, and for the Rest of Us" and how people with convictions can move forward to find employment on Career Talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dune Thorne, Head of Client Experience at Brown Advisory and Founder of Invest in Girls, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sandi Hunt to discuss impact investing and advocating for financial literacy on Dollars and Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jenna Behrer, Senior Director of Innovation at Heineken USA, joins host Nicolaj Siggelkow to discuss innovation strategies behind the brand on Mastering Innovation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, Senior Writer at Inc. Magazine and award winning journalist who has covered culture, emerging technologies and entrepreneurship for the past 15 years, joins hosts Jeff Klein, Mike Useem, and Anne Greenhalgh to discuss her new book "We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, The Internet’s Culture Laboratory," taking a deep look at the formation and history of Reddit on Leadership in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts and Wharton Professors Christian Terwiesch and Nicolaj Siggelkow take a deep dive into the world of digital payments and money transferring to look at how innovations have already shifted the landscape with Kamila Chytil, COO of MoneyGram, and Michael Todasco, Director of Innovation at PayPal, on Work of Tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon just announced they would raise the minimum wage for their employees to $15 an hour, after public criticism of the richest man in modern history employing workers earning an average of $28,000 a year. This increase more than doubles the national hourly wage at $7.25, which many people question if it even qualifies as working wage today, and affects about $350,000 people a year, including about a third of which are seasonal employees. Host Dan Loney talks with Marshall Meyer, Emeritus Professor of Management at the Wharton School, Matthew Bidwell, Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School, and Matthew Johnson, Research Scientist at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, to look at how higher wages may attract and retain workers in a service economy on Knowledge@Wharton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lynn Branigan, President and CEO of She Runs It, joins host Wharton Prof Americus Reed to discuss her work with women in in marketing careers, and her panel at Advertising Week 2018 in NYC this week on Marketing Matters. She Runs It is formerly Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, joins host John Barkett on The Business of Health Care to discuss the rise and shocking collapse of the once-heralded blood-testing startup, Theranos. Carreyrou was the first to break the story and pursued it to the end. He chronicles the collapse of Theranos in his book called "BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts Wharton Prof Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara dive into the world of HR Analytics on In the Workplace. They speak with Dan Shapero, Vice President of Talent Solutions, Careers, and Learning at LinkedIn about the rise of analytics in HR, then speak with Claire McTaggart, Founder and CEO of SquarePeg, about how those HR analytics are being used at SquarePeg to help match business professionals to jobs based on fit, not just resumes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.