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This Week in Business

Bringing together top leaders, innovators and renowned faculty from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania discussing topics that matter to consumers and the business world.

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Founding Reddit with CTO Chris Slowe Feb 02, 2018

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Chris Slowe, Chief Technology Officer and Founding Engineer at Reddit, joins hosts Doug Collom and Irina Yuen to discuss his career and how Reddit was founded on Bay Area Ventures.

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Amazon Go with Barbara Kahn and Ryan Hamilton Feb 02, 2018

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Last week, Amazon Go opened its doors in Seattle with cameras and sensors instead of cashiers, shopping carts or checkout lines. Host Dan Loney talks with Barbara Kahn, Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, and Ryan Hamilton, Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University to discuss how this store could define the future of retail on Knowledge@Wharton.

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Applying Design Decisions to Solve Health Care Challenges with Jefferson University's JeffDESIGN Feb 01, 2018

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Dr. Bon Ku, Assistant Dean for Health and Design at Jefferson University and TEDx Speaker, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss how JeffDESIGN (College Design Track) teaches students to apply design thinking to solve healthcare challenges and redesign healthcare systems, services, spaces and medical devices on Dollars and Change.

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Tax Law: Corporations and Give Bonuses with Alan Auerbach and Daniel Hemel Feb 01, 2018

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Home Depot became the latest business to offer its employees bonuses allegedly in response to the tax overhaul. Host Dan Loney talks with Alan Auerbach, Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California Berkeley, and Daniel Hemel, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School to discuss why corporations are passing out bonuses instead of raising wages and the financial impact of the new law on Knowledge@Wharton.

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All About Workplace Wellness Programs with Damon Jones Feb 01, 2018

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Damon Jones, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Ivan Barankay to discuss his latest study "What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do?" on In the Workplace.

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Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes with Adam Leventhal and David Savitz Feb 01, 2018

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A new comprehensive report by the national Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, concludes vaping e-cigarettes containing nicotine can be addictive. It also states this may put teenagers who use them at a high risk of smoking. Host Dan Loney talks with Adam Leventhal, Author of this report and Director of the University of California's Health, Emotion & Addiction Laboratory, and David Savitz, Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health who helped put this report together, to discuss the findings on Knowledge@Wharton.

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Solar Panel Tariffs with Mauro Guillen and Matt Gold Jan 31, 2018

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The Trump Administration recently announced that it will impose a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panels. Host Dan Loney talks with Mauro Guillen, Director of Wharton's Lauder Institute, and Matt Gold, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, to discuss the tariffs which has some worried it will cost jobs in the solar energy industry and hurt the nation's push toward renewable energy on Knowledge@Wharton.

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Real Estate Outlook 2018 and Amazon HQ2 with Zillow's Aaron Terrazas Jan 31, 2018

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Aaron Terrazas, Senior Economist at Zillow, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss what’s ahead for the real estate market in 2018, some of the barriers to continued growth—including a lack of inventory, and his thoughts on Amazon HQ2's city selection process on The Real Estate Hour.

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Olympic Curling With Canadian Women's Coach Adam Kingsbury Jan 31, 2018

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Adam Kingsbury, Head Coach of the Canadian Olympic Women’s Curling Team, joins hosts Cade Massey, Shane Jensen, Adi Wyner, and Eric Bradlow to discuss the sport of curling, from analytics to preparation for the Olympics on Wharton Moneyball.

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EU Leaders at Davos with Olivier Chatain and Stephen Silvia Jan 30, 2018

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President Donald Trump gave the keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, but the Europeans were trying to counterbalance the U.S. in the days leading up to this speech with messages against European growth. Host Dan Loney talks with Olivier Chatain, Professor at HEC Paris and Senior Fellow at Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Steven Silvia, Professor of International Service at American University's School of International Service, to discuss what leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been promoting on Knowledge@Wharton.

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