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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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

New York City filed a lawsuit against the distributors and manufacturers of opioid prescription drugs, including Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and McKesson. As the manufacturer-to-consumer pipeline is muddied, recent attention is focused on how the recent opioid crisis could have been prevented. Host Dan Loney talks with William Evans, Professor and Department Chair Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, and Ethan Lieber, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss their recent study "How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic” to take a look at some of the causes and potential remedies of this crisis on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Conference Board recently released it's "C-Suite Challenge™ 2018: Reinventing the Organization for the Digital Age", polling more than 1,000 CEO and C-Suite executives. Rebecca Ray, Executive Vice President of the Knowledge Organization at The Conference Board, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Iwan Barankay to discuss the results of the survey and what weighs heavily on CEO's minds for 2018 on In the Workplace. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joanna Barsh, Director Emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of the Centered Leadership Project, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss her book "Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges" to help people succeed in their careers when things don't pan out as expected on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author Daniel Pink joins host Dan Loney to discuss his latest book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" which helps people analyze their own perfect timing for productivity on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carl Schramm, a Professor at Syracuse University, joins hosts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Saikat Chaudhuri to discuss his new book "BURN THE BUSINESS PLAN: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do" on Mastering Innovation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Earlier this month it was revealed that potentially every personal computer, mobile device and other electronics are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre digital attack now and perhaps for years to come. Host Dan Loney talks with Andrea Matwyshyn, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, and Mike Chapple, Academic Director of the Master of Science Program in Business Analytics at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss what lead to this vulnerability, the anticipated risks, and what's being done to mitigate them on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon released a narrowed down list of the twenty potential candidates for its second headquarters. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeffrey Shulman, Professor of Marketing at the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, and Tom Buerkle, Associate Editor at Thomson-Reuters News Service, to discuss what cities made the list and why on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Della Clark, President and CEO of The Enterprise Center, joins hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss their mission to cultivate and invest in minority entrepreneurs to inspire working together for economic growth in communities on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ashley Dombkowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Before Brands, joins host Karl Ulrich to discuss her consumer-focused product platform focused on health and wellness for parents and families on Launch Pad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A new study shows that the expansion of Medicaid keeps rural hospitals from closing in states like Colorado, which added some four hundred thousand people to their program. Thirty two states expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, not only cutting the the uninsured by huge margins but making hospitals six times more likely to keep open with the increase in insured patients. Host Dan Loney talks with Richard Lindrooth and Gregory Tung, Authors of the study and Professors in the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy in the University of Colorado's Colorado School of Public Health, and Robert Field, Lecturer at The Wharton School and Professor of Law at Drexel University, to discuss the study's findings and how they may play into the future of Medicaid on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Trump Administration recently said it will allow states to compel people to work or prepare for jobs as a requirement to get Medicaid, allowing states to cut off people unless they prove they have a job, are students, caregivers, volunteers, or participate in another approved form of "community engagement", or are severely disabled. Host Dan Loney talks with MaryBeth Musumeci, Associate Director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, and David Super, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, to discuss what this means for those who currently depend on this program on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is the NFL plateauing as a business? Daniel Roberts, Sports Business Writer at Yahoo! Finance and Hosts of the video and podcast series Sportsbook, joins hosts George Perry and Ken Shropshire to discuss how various events over the past year such as athlete protests have affected public opinion of the NFL and it's subsequent impact on weekly viewers on The Wharton Sports Business Show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On a recent Saturday morning, people in Hawaii received a cellphone early warning alert: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” The message was a mistake allegedly caused by an employee hitting the wrong button and it took 38 minutes for the system to send out a new message to let people know of the error. Host Dan Loney talks with Jeannette Sutton, Director of the Risk and Disaster Communication Center at the University of Kentucky, and Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Denver's Department of Communication, to discuss how emergency alert systems, the distrust this mistake could create, and what can be done to both ensure the system works well and reassure people whose lives may depend on it on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.