Wharton Business Daily

Ben Falk, Former VP of Basketball Strategy and Owner of CleaningTheGlass.com, joins hosts Cade Massey, Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen to discuss his experience working with the 76ers during the early stages of "The Process" and making the transition to running a statistical NBA database with cutting edge analysis on Wharton Moneyball. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Open enrollment started last week for the Affordable Care Act, and it may be one of the toughest in the last five years. The enrollment period has been shortened to 45 days, advertising for the law has been cut drastically as has staffing for those helping people understand which plans are best for them, and rates for those who don't qualify for subsidies have gone up significantly. Host Dan Loney talks with Mark Paul, Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, and Katherine Hempstead, Senior Advisor at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to discuss what these changes mean for those who get their insurance on the private market on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney broadcasts LIVE from the First Annual Forbes Small Giant Conference 2017 in New York City, a celebration of America’s Best Small Companies, 25 privately owned companies that have chosen to be great instead of big. In this hour, he speaks with Nancy Traversy, Co-Founder and CEO of Barefoot Books, Ted Castle, President and CEO of Rhino Foods, Nawal Motawi, Founder and Owner of Motawi Tileworks, and Salvatore Melilli, National Audit Leader for Private Markets Group KPMG, on this special edition of Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business Radio Special: Host Dan Loney broadcasts LIVE from the First Annual Forbes Small Giant Conference 2017 in New York City, a celebration of America’s Best Small Companies, 25 privately owned companies that have chosen to be great instead of big. In this hour, he speaks with Loren Feldman, Senior Editor for Entrepreneurship at Forbes and host of Mind Your Business on Business Radio, Bo Burlingham, Forbes Contributor and author of "Small Giants: Companies that Chose to Be Great Instead of Big," Zawadi Bryant, CEO of NightLight, Glen Tripp, Founder and CEO of Galileo Camps, on this special edition of Knowledge@Wharton.https://www.forbes.com/forbes-live/event/small-giants/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Constance Hunter, Chief Economist of KPMG LLP, and Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, join hosts Jeremy Schwartz and Jeremy Siegel to discuss the markets' reaction to recent Fed Chair nominee, current proposed GOP tax plan, the jobs report, and much more on Behind the Markets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

President Trump has chosen Federal Reserve governor Jerome Powell to replace Janet Yellen as the next chairman of the central bank. Host Dan Loney talks with Peter Conti-Brown, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, and Krista Schwarz, Finance Professor at the Wharton School, to discuss what Powell is expected to bring to the position and the reactions from financial markets to this decision on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In September, Iraqi Kurds voted for independence. Host Dan Loney talks with Brendan O'Leary, Constitutional Advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss what this means, what has happened in the region since then, and what could happen next on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont remains in Brussels, as Spain seeks to charge him and over a dozen ministers with rebellion and sedition. The European Union has largely tried to stay out of the conflict as at the region attempts to declare independence from Madrid. Host Dan Loney talks with Joao Gomes, Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, and Becquer Seguin, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss the situation and the long term political and financial impact on Spain and the E.U. on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Lo, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, joins hosts Jeremy Schwartz and Jeremy Siegel to discuss his new book, "Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought" with a recent market update on Behind the Markets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mitch Roschelle, Partner and Business Development Leader at PwC, joins host Sam Chandan to discuss the recently released Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the annual market forecast co-published by Mitch, on The Real Estate Hour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Green Carmichael, Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and host of the HBR IdeaCast podcast, joins host Stew Friedman to discuss research that shows overworking is actually LESS productive, and that time off is important on Work and Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adam Waytz, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, joins hosts Peter Cappelli and Dan O'Meara to discuss his recent Harvard Business Review Article "The Dangers of "Mandatory Fun" on In the Workplace, including listener calls with anecdotes of what "fun" has worked and not worked for their companies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Zogby, Pollster and Founder and Senior Partner of John Zogby Strategies, joins host Anne Greenhalgh to discuss the art of polling and “Tribal Analytics”, which is his firm’s approach to predicting human behavior, on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ellen Ullman, Former Software Engineer, joins host Laura Zarrow to discuss her new book "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" describing the social, emotional, and personal effects of technology as viewed by her time in the field on Women@Work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Are drug prices really too high, as President Trump implies? Robert Zirkelbach, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), and Steven Pearson, Founder and President of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), join host John Barkett to discuss whether the prices we pay for prescription drugs represent the value those drugs provide and what could be done to possibly lower prescription drug prices on The Business of Health Care. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.