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We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the future of the auto industry. In 2018, car makers announced the end of many lines of sedans and coupes to focus on more popular SUVs and trucks. Companies like Ford, General Motors and Toyota are looking to spend more resources on autonomous vehicles and electric cars. The companies are also dealing with rising interest rates and trade tariffs that impact steel prices as well as sales in China. If the disappointing reviews coming out of the motor city are a sign, 2019 could be a rough year for the auto companies. Host Dan Loney talks about these contributing factors with John Paul MacDuffie, Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation at Wharton's Mack Institute, and Paul Eisenstein, Publisher and Editor of TheDetroitBureau.com on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Legendary investor and Vanguard founder John "Jack" Bogle passed earlier this month at the age of 89. Bogle is credited with making the investment industry accessible to millions of people because of his development of low-cost, low-fee indexed funds. Vanguard, which Bogle started in the late 1970s, now has over $5 trillion in investor assets. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeremy Siegel, Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, and Burton Malkiel, former Director of the Vanguard Group, Chief Investment Officer at Wealthfront, and Economics Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, about their memories of John Bogle and their insights on his legacy on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dingding Chen, Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean of Institute for 21st Century Silk Road Studies at Jinan University, joins hosts Jeremy Schwartz and Liqian Ren to discuss Chinese foreign policy, how Dingding was the first to predict Trump's victory 3 years ago, China's stance on the current trade war, emerging technology, and more on Behind the Markets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cris Collinsworth, game analyst for NBC’s Sunday Night Football and former wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, joins hosts Cade Massey, Shane Jensen, Adi Wyner, and Eric Bradlow to discuss his career in the NFL and as an analyst and broadcaster on Wharton Moneyball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Tracey Wilen, researcher and speaker on career trends, joins host Dr. Dawn Graham to discuss the shifts in the career landscape for 2019 on Career Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at climate change.  Several major studies, including the federal government's National Climate Assessment and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, showed that global warming is already having a deadly impact around the world and that all countries need to take "unprecedented" actions to cut carbon emissions over the next decade. Business leaders seem to be focusing more on the dangers posed by climate and environmental issues, and it's even a top issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos this month. But the US seems to be falling behind, with President Trump having pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord and reversing a lot of Obama era policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Host Dan Loney talks with  ERIC ORTS, Guardsmark Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School and faculty director of the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL), and FELIX MORMANN a Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, join us to discuss how we can deal with this urgent issue in the coming year.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at technology. The tech sector went through a lot of ups and downs last year: executives from several companies testified before Congressional committees regarding their use of customers personal data, employers were held accountable by their own workers over business decisions, and some tech moguls, like Elon Musk, found themselves facing unexpected legal issues. 2019 holds the promise of new technological advances, with the possible arrival of 5G, new Apple products, further development of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, and more. Host Dan Loney speaks with Saikat Chaudhuri, Executive Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at The Wharton School and co-host of Mastering Innovation, and Tucker Marion, Associate Professor and Group Chair for Academic Programs, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the real estate markets. Mortgage interest rates are easing after rates passed five percent in 2018 for the first time in eight years, making consumers uncertain about either buying a new home or refinancing an existing loan. But at the same time, changes in the tax law hit mortgage interest deductions, home equity loans, and property tax deductions with a new state and local tax limit of $10,000. To further examine these effects, host Dan Loney talks with Susan Wachter, Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School and Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, and Benjamin Keys, an Assistant Professor in Wharton’s Real Estate Department, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at trade issues. The U.S. and China recently held another round of trade talks, which ended with both sides reportedly feeling positive. The U.S. is also preparing for talks with the European Union later this year, with agriculture being one of the tougher, negotiating issues. To help understand these many moving parts of international trade, host Dan Loney is joined by Mary Lovely, an Economics Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, as well as a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Peterson Institute, and Matt Gold, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University and a former Deputy Assistant US Trade Representative for North America.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at impending changes to US tax law and policy. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect in 2018 and the majority of us will feel its impact when we file our taxes in the coming weeks or months. However it's already left a mark on the federal budget deficit. Although the Trump administration said the tax plan would "pay for itself," that has not happened, instead the deficit went up by 17 percent from the year before. The small boost it gave to the economy may be a temporary effect. In the meantime, the IRS is dealing with the partial government shutdown and it's unclear whether tax refunds will be sent out on time, even though the deadline to file remains the same. Host Dan Loney is joined by Michael Knoll, Co-Director of the Center for Tax Law and Policy as well as Law Professor at the Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School, and Daniel Hemel, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, to discuss how these tax policies might play out in 2019. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're featuring a series this month called “2019: A Look Ahead” and continue with a look at the future of Latin America. In the last 12 months leadership has changed in Latin American countries including Brazil, Cuba and Mexico. Brazil elected a far right president, Jair Bolsonaro, while Mexico has its first leftist president in seven decades, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. And for the first time in over 50 years, the leader of Cuba is not a Castro, it's Miguel Diaz Canel. In the meantime Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in last week for his second term, even though his reelection is being called illegitimate and the country is in economic turmoil. Host Dan Loney examines many of these issues with William Burke White, Director of The Perry World House and Law Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Benjamin GEDAN, Senior Advisor to the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University and a former South America Director of the National Security Council at The White House.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ruth Zukerman, Co-Founder of SoulCycle and FlyWheel and current Creative Director at FlyWheel, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her inspirational founders story and journey from dance to cycling on Women@Work. Ruth's new book is called "Riding High: How I Kissed SoulCycle Goodbye, Co-Founded Flywheel, and Built the Life I Always Wanted". Book: https://www.amazon.com/Riding-High-SoulCycle-Co-Founded-Flywheel-ebook/dp/B072DTR4GX See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vikram Dewan, CEO of the Philadelphia Zoo, President of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, and Wharton alum, joins hosts Sandi Hunt and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss the Philadelphia Zoo's many impact programs that span from the community here in Philadelphia to the wildlife all over the world with efforts in Conservation, Sustainability, Social Impact, Education, and more on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Charles Best, Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, joins host Nicolaj Siggelkow to talk about how the nonprofit website, which enables anyone to help a classroom in need, is making a real life impact in education on Mastering Innovation. To date, teachers at more than 80% of all the public schools in America have created classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org, and more than 3 million people have given to those projects! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Few books can credibly claim to offer a way to save the world, but this one does." That's the eye-catching first sentence in forward to the new book A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and The Rest Can Follow. The authors, Joshua Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at American University, and Staffan Qvist, Energy Engineer, join host Dan Loney to discuss how they believe a combination of nuclear and renewable energy is the path to slow down climate change on Knowledge@Wharton. Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CWQ65FG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.