Wharton Business Daily

Individual tax cuts as outlined in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, are set to expire at the end of 2025. The newly released Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) analyses what would happen if they are extended to 2040, projecting over $5 trillion increases in government debt and reductions in GDP during the first 10 years and beyond. Host Dan Loney speaks with Kimberly Burham, Managing Director of Legislation and Special Projects at The PWBM, and Alan Auerbach, Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California Berkeley, to discuss the impact of the tax cuts and the potential impact on the national debt on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Starbucks is trying to get past the fallout from the arrests of two black men who were waiting for a friend, then arrested, in a Philadelphia location last week. The coffee giant announced it will close eight thousand U.S. stores for racial-bias training for its employees. Host Dan Loney speaks with Stephanie Creary, Management Professor at the Wharton School, Mary Gilly, Senior Associate Dean at the University of California Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, and Henry Boyd, Marketing Professor at University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, to discuss Starbucks' response to this issue and the move to mandate bias training on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What grade does Wharton Marketing Professor Americus Reed give Starbucks in their brand crisis management strategy? Last week, two African American men were arrested at a local Philadelphia Starbucks on the grounds of trespassing while waiting for a 3rd man to arrive for a business meeting. Starbucks declined to press charges and the men were released, but a national conversation has been ignited over racial discrimination by Starbucks at large. Professor and host Americus Reed dissects the incidents and resulting steps taken by Starbucks to make the situation right on Marketing Matters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joel Flory, CEO and Co-Founder of VSCO, joins host Doug Collom to discuss his Oakland-based photography and social network app on Bay Area Ventures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chris Heck, President of the Philadelphia 76ers, joins host George Perry to discuss his role of overseeing content, marketing and branding, ticket sales and service, sponsorship sales and activation, innovation strategy and business development for the Philadelphia 76ers on The Wharton Sports Business Show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Katie O’Reilly, Chief Marketing Officer of the Philadelphia 76ers, joins host Dave Reibstein and guest host Suneal Bedi to discuss marketing strategies for the 76ers on Measured Thoughts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Many of us want to die peacefully alone at home, but since the advent of medical procedures elongating the human life span, our elder population die, often painfully, in cold institutions. Host Dan Loney speaks with retired physician Sam Harrington, who lays out alternative and practical end-of-life steps for older patients’ health care in his new book "At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life" on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bruce Feldman, Reporter for FOX Sports and Author of "The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks", joins hosts Cade Massey, Eric Bradlow, Shane Jensen, and Adi Wyner to discuss quarterback evaluations of the NFL Draft on Wharton Moneyball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women@Work brings you a special interview with Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors, live from the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2018! Host Laura Zarrow and co-host Adam Grant talk with Mary about her career, (which started at GM as an 18 year old intern!), how GM uses data to help manage employees, and how she supports diversity in the workplace. Barra is one of three women that presented at this year’s Wharton People Analytics Conference.More info: https://wpa.wharton.upenn.edu/conference/https://www.gm.com/company/leadership/corporate-officers/mary-barra.html See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brendon DeSimone, Real Estate Expert and Author of "Next Generation Real Estate", joins host Kent Smetters to discuss Spring 2018 real estate trends and traps on The Real Estate Hour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Christina Terwiesch speaks with Steven Dominguez, Vice President of Global Brands for Hyatt Place and Hyatt House, and Jeff Hurst, Chief Commercial Officer at HomeAway, about the future innovations of the hospitality industry on Work of Tomorrow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A new study shows that about 36% of college students go hungry and an equal number lack adequate housing. Host Dan Loney speaks with researches W. Joel Schneider, Professor of Psychological Studies in Education at Temple University and Daphne Hernandez, Professor of Health and Human Performance at University of Houston, to discuss why this happening and what can be done to help feed and house these students on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Since 1952, The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany began its work negotiating payments to the remaining elder survivors and their families. The healthcare and other support has been necessary for the life extension of some of these families. Host Dan Loney speaks with Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and Kristine Donly, Deputy Chief Program Officer as well as the Interim Director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC., to discuss justice for the war crimes against Jewish Holocaust victims in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Karl Ulrich hosts a very special episode of Launch Pad, speaking to eight semi-finalists from the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge. If you’re not familiar, this is where our students spend the year building a company, and then enter our competition where they pitch their company to accomplished investors. They will be competing for 135-thousand dollars in cash and prizes. In Part II, we speak with: Rui Jing Jiang, Avisi Technologies; Philip Williams, Spectrum Scores; Federika Longinotti-Buitoni, Collecto; and Thomas Cavett, POWTI Innovations. More Info: https://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/startup-showcase/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Karl Ulrich hosts a very special episode of Launch Pad, speaking to eight semi-finalists from the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge. If you’re not familiar, this is where our students spend the year building a company, and then enter our competition where they pitch their company to accomplished investors. They will be competing for 135-thousand dollars in cash and prizes. In Part I, we speak with: Haley Russell, Chipper Pet Food; Seth Neel, Welligence Energy Analytics; Michael Wong, Instahub; and Shanel Fields of MD Ally. More Info: https://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/startup-showcase/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.