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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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Amazon's New Urban Grocery Store Mar 22, 2019

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Two years ago, Amazon entered the grocery market with its purchase of Whole Foods. Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the e-commerce giant is planning to launch urban grocery stores separate from the Whole Foods chain. Host Dan Loney talks with Barbara Kahn, Marketing Professor at the Wharton School, and Mark Cohen, Director of Retail Studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, to look at what makes these urban grocery stores different than the existing Whole Foods and Amazon Go models, and why Amazon is choosing to expand down this route of retail on Knowledge@Wharton.

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A Look Inside GoFundMe Mar 21, 2019

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Kim Wilford, General Counsel for GoFundMe, joins host Doug Collom to discuss how she's helping to advance corporate initiatives to improve the world's largest social fundraising platform on Bay Area Ventures.

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The Turmoils of Tesla: Elon Musk v. the SEC Mar 20, 2019

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Elon Musk is under fire from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yet again for his "reckless" use of Twitter regarding Tesla company updates. The SEC is currently questioning tweets the chief executive of Tesla sent out last month about the car company’s production levels. Musk says his tweets are covered by free speech. The SEC disagrees and wants him held in contempt for violating a 2018 settlement that restricts his social media posts regarding his company. In 2018 Musk got into trouble for falsely tweeting that he was taking his company private, which caused stocks to soar. This lead to the SEC settlement in which Tesla and Musk were each fined $20 million and he had to step down as chairman of the board. Host Dan Loney talks with John Paul MacDuffie, Management Professor at the Wharton School and Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation at The Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Charles Elson, Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, to discuss more about this recent legal turmoil and how it is affecting Tesla in the eye of the consumers on Knowledge@Wharton.

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Huawei Sues the US Government Mar 19, 2019

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Chinese tech giant Huawei is suing the U.S. government, alleging the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act prohibiting government agencies from buying its equipment or contracting with other companies violates the Constitution. Huawei argues US Congress doesn't have a good reason for this ban to be put in place, and that they are being singled out. US official allege that Huawei equipment could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Americans - Huawei denies such an accusation. Currently, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer and daughter of the founder, Meng Wanzhou, continues to be held in Canada and faces extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges. Host Dan Loney takes a deeper look at these allegations with Regina Abrami, Senior Fellow in Management at Wharton, Director of the Global Institute at The Lauder Institute, and Head of its International Studies Faculty, and Richard Dasher, Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University, on Knowledge@Wharton.

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TechSoup: Technology for Non-Profits Mar 18, 2019

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Rebecca Masisak, CEO of TechSoup, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss how TechSoup organized a nonprofit international network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provides technical support and technological tools to other nonprofits, and where they see their business growing in the next few years on Dollars and Change.

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10 Current Tax Breaks for the Middle Class Mar 15, 2019

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If you believe that tax breaks are reserved only for the ultra-wealthy, you might be paying too much to the IRS! Sandra Block, Senior Editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, joins host Kent Smetters to discuss her recent piece "10 Tax Breaks for the Middle Class" on Your Money. Listen in to see if you qualify for any of these current tax breaks!

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Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores Mar 14, 2019

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Philadelphia has become the first major U.S. city to ban “cashless” stores. The city is making this move, in part, to protect those "unbanked" consumers who may not have credit cards and only use cash. The law, which goes into effect on July 1st, exempts some businesses including parking structures, rentals requiring a security deposit, and those with a membership model. Amazon, for example, was informed they could work around the law, as long as membership is required. So are restrictions on cashless businesses ultimately good for consumers and for the municipalities and will other metropolitan areas follow Philly's lead? To discuss more on this complex issue, host Dan Loney is joined by William Greenlee, Democratic Philadelphia City Councilman-at-large and co-sponsor of the bill, Mehrsa Baradaran, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the Robert Cotten Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and author of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, and Jay Zagorsky, Economist and Senior Lecturer of Markets, Public Policy and Law at Boston University’s School of Management on Knowledge@Wharton.

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Turning Data Into Action - WCAI/Working Nation Town Hall Special Part Three Mar 13, 2019

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Business Radio Special: Today we are featuring speakers from the recent Wharton’s Customer Analytics and Working Nation’s Town Hall, “The Future is Now: Closing the Data Analytics Skills Gap.” In this segment, we hear from the event's key speaker, Allen Blue, Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Allen joins host Dan Loney to discuss how LinkedIn partners with Working Nation to help identify new types of data analytics job roles and share them across the platform's network in hopes of finding new workers to be trained across their own skills gap and into data analytics on Knowledge@Wharton.

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The Rise of Data Analytics in Companies - WCAI/Working Nation Town Hall Special Part Two Mar 13, 2019

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Business Radio Special: Today we are featuring speakers from the recent Wharton’s Customer Analytics and Working Nation’s Town Hall, “The Future is Now: Closing the Data Analytics Skills Gap.” In this segment, we discuss how data analytics are solving today's real world problems. Ravi Kandikonda, SVP of Marketing and Strategy & Planning at Comcast, and Steve Kern, Deputy Director of Quantitative Sciences at the Gates Foundation, join host Dan Loney to discuss how their companies are using data to piece together solutions and strategic advances on Knowledge@Wharton.

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The Importance of Data Analytics in Early Education - WCAI/Working Nation Town Hall Special Part One Mar 13, 2019

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Business Radio Special: Today we are featuring speakers from the recent Wharton’s Customer Analytics and Working Nation’s Town Hall, “The Future is Now: Closing the Data Analytics Skills Gap.” In this segment, we discuss how data analytics skills can be integrated into standard education. Wharton Marketing Professor and host of Wharton Moneyball Eric Bradlow and Melanie Harris, Chief Information Officer for the School District of Philadelphia, join host Dan Loney to discuss how we can encourage student to learn 'digital literacy' and data analysis on Knowledge@Wharton.

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