Conversations with Mike Milken
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsCOVID-19 has changed the way we work and live. In response to the public health emergency, Milken Institute Chairman Michael Milken is engaging a range of industry leaders and medical experts to help us better understand and confront a crisis that has not only altered our current day-to-day but will change the course of how we work, socialize, and fight disease for years to come.
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Ep. 75: Economic Justice, with Vista Equity Partners’ Robert F. Smith
July 02, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MB“The Wall Street Journal last week reported that 41% of the African American businesses have stopped transacting and stopped conducting business and have closed up, which is a true tragedy. They don't have the banking systems, which limited their ability to actually process the Payroll Protection Program loans through the CARES Act.” With the pandemic revealing greater inequities in existing economic systems, Robert F. Smith is determined to make a difference. He authorized one of Vista Equit...
Ep. 74: Lifelines, with IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva
July 01, 2020 14:30 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB“Our policy engagement is very strong everywhere, but … the same way people with preconditions are more vulnerable to the virus, weakened economies are more vulnerable to the economic shock we experience today. So, they need more of our help.” For struggling economies around the world, the IMF is a lifeline. Since 1944, it has promoted financial stability and sustainable growth to its 189 member countries with zero percent loans and reserves of more than one trillion dollars. As the Fund’s Ma...
Ep. 73: Big Gaming, with Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick
June 30, 2020 17:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB“Each day you have to answer a series of questions so that you can electronically access the office. If you don't, we'll either send you to one of our testing labs or to a telemedicine doctor. … We have these huge UV chambers. You put all your outerwear, your phones, your shoes, and we can actually UV disinfect, almost anything.” As CEO of one of Fortune’s "100 Best Companies to Work For," Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick will do whatever is necessary to keep his workforce healthy. After al...
Ep. 72: Positive Energy, with Chevron’s Mike Wirth
June 29, 2020 16:30 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB“It can feel like the world is a colder and riskier place, [but] we've been through these things before, and we generally know that society comes through. We learn lessons. We become stronger over time and create opportunities for personal growth and societal learning that can continue to make the world a better place.” Chevron has been weathering the vicissitudes of cultural and industrial shifts around the world since it was founded 141 years ago to provide a substitute for whale oil used i...
Ep. 71: Gratitude, with Infosys’ Ravi Kumar S.
June 26, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB“Six out of the seven jobs of the future have not been created yet. The future of workplaces and workforces are going to change significantly. The change was gradual, but with the pandemic and in the post‐pandemic era, the changes will be all of a sudden.” As the world struggles with the vagaries of a pandemic, Ravi Kumar S. is already planning for a transformed workplace. As President of Infosys, his effort begins with finding a new pipeline of formerly underserved workers and then training ...
Ep. 70: The Conversation, with the World Bank’s Jingdong Hua
June 25, 2020 15:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB“I certainly hope this is a unique moment where we will have profound conversations, not only about our own lessons or our own challenges, but about the future of humanity. … This lockdown gives us the opportunity to have long conversations that otherwise would not have happened.” Last year, the World Bank Group was busily working on two ambitious goals for its 189 member nations: ending extreme poverty within a generation, and boosting shared prosperity. This year, it has announced it will p...
Ep. 69: Cashless, with Visa’s Al Kelly
June 23, 2020 17:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB“In the last three months we’ve probably have had five years’ worth of acceleration in terms of e‐commerce. … People are realizing that cash is a way that germs get transmitted. Currency is dirty.” When the pandemic hit in January, Al Kelly made a vow to have zero layoffs at Visa. Fortunately, as one of the world’s foremost purveyors of e-commerce, they soon found that 97% of their 20,000 employees were able to work from home, and they shuttered all but five of their 130 international offices...
Ep. 68: Outcomes, with Helmsley Charitable Trust’s David Panzirer
June 18, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB“The whole premise that where you live dictates your access to specialty care, dictates your outcomes, dictates your access to tools to manage your disease. That's absurd in this day and age. … We have to seize this opportunity to level the playing field and really begin to truly give equal care no matter where you live. When David Panzirer was named a Trustee of the Helmsley Charitable Trust thirteen years ago, he knew little about being a philanthropist. Today, he helps to direct that fund’...
Ep. 67: Healing, with Children’s National Hospital’s Joelle Simpson
June 17, 2020 16:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB“I will be honest in saying that I never imagined the degree of exhaustion and the multitude of issues that have come about with this crisis: on a personal level, on an institutional level, on a community level, on a national level.” For 150 years, Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC has been a beacon of pediatric excellence. With Dr. Joelle Simpson as its Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness, they have partnered with philanthropists to provide free drive-through care and CO...
Ep. 66: Teachable Moment, with IAC’s Barry Diller
June 16, 2020 18:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB“Local travel, meaning travel 100 to 600 miles from where you live by car, is fairly robust and is almost back to pre‐COVID levels. … We're not seeing and won't see air travel, certainly not international air travel. … We’re not seeing it yet because people feel unsafe. Travel is probably one of the last to actually get back the robust growth.” As Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia Group – which includes a dozen top online booking sites – Barry Diller knows travel trends. As Chairman an...
Ep. 65: Across Sectors, with MasterCard Foundation’s Reeta Roy
June 15, 2020 15:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB“In Africa the economy is also a patient. … We have a consortium in Ethiopia, for example – 12 businesses run by women who are pivoting and using their skills to now manufacture PPE. We’re doing the same in Ghana, working through a coalition … to get to 12,000 small businesses the financing they need.” Relatively new to the world of nonprofits, the MasterCard Foundation has had an outsized impact, especially in Africa. Led by President and CEO Reeta Roy, the organization has focused on financ...
Ep. 64: Struggle, with Ariel Investments’ Mellody Hobson
June 12, 2020 16:15 - 28 minutes - 26 MB“I thought a lot about it from the perspective of being a person who walks around with brown skin, a woman, a mother, but also someone who runs a company. … My mother used to tell me, ‘Mellody, you could be or do anything.’ … There's going to be a struggle. It's going to be super hard. People aren't going to treat you fairly, but you can still be or do anything. I actually believed her.” As president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson is responsible for more than $10 billion in i...
Ep. 63: Madame Chairwoman, with U.S. Representative Maxine Waters
June 11, 2020 14:15 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB“I negotiated directly with Mr. Mnuchin. … He was fair. He was easy to communicate with. … Working with him, I was able to carve out and direct to these minority institutions, a sum of money that would give them the liquidity that they needed.” Rep. Maxine Waters has always been a champion of the underserved: as an assistant teacher in 1966 with the Head Start program in Watts, California; as a state legislator in the 70s and 80s, pushing for divestment in South Africa; and as a current 15-t...
Ep. 62: Sprinting, with The Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein
June 10, 2020 17:15 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB“The COVID-19 crisis has made me realize that if there's anything I really want to get done in my life, I need to get it done sooner. I am ratcheting up my activity. I'm doing what I call sprinting to the finish line now because I realize how fragile life really can be and this crisis brought it home to me.” After achieving financial success by co-founding and co-chairing the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein is now redefining philanthropic success. His approach is what...
Ep. 61: Paying It Forward, with PayPal’s Daniel Schulman
June 09, 2020 15:15 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB“We immediately went from working 100% from the office to 100% work from home; we’ll remain working from home at least through October as we see how the virus progresses and how we protect the health and safety of our employees as we start to reopen.” For PayPal president and CEO Dan Schulman, the health and wellbeing of his 25,000 global employees comes first. They, in turn, are then better able to provide for the 300 million consumers and 25 million merchants using PayPal’s platform. They w...
Ep. 60: Sea Change, with Nasdaq’s Adena Friedman
June 08, 2020 14:15 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB“It's really, to me, a trust factor. … Companies at that moment had huge, huge needs for capital to manage through the beginning of what they were seeing was going to be a significant downturn in their business. If we had closed the markets, they would not have been able to gain access to that capital when they needed it the most.” Early in the coronavirus crisis, Adena Friedman, president and CEO of Nasdaq, focused her energy on making sure companies and investors had uninterrupted liquidit...
Ep. 59: Taking Flight, with Delta’s Ed Bastian
June 04, 2020 17:32 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB“We're working well as an industry, not just within the airline industry, but across the hospitality sector. We want customers to feel confident. … People want to move; people want to get out. There's a cabin fever … and we want to make sure we're serving it safely.” Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines, remembers all too well how 9/11 affected his industry and his airline, which had to restructure and make difficult cost-cutting decisions. The coronavirus crisis posed a greater threat, but he’...
Ep. 58: Care for the Caregivers, with Cleveland Clinic’s Tomislav Mihaljevic
June 03, 2020 16:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB“The unfortunate, almost-tragic, paradox of this situation is that 1.2 million healthcare professionals in the United States have lost their jobs because of the financial strains that have COVID pandemic put on healthcare organizations.” For the 99-year-old Cleveland Clinic, the care of their patients is equaled only by the emphasis they place on the health of their own workforce. Their thorough preparation and procedures have resulted in a less than 1% infection rate, compared to roughly 20%...
Ep. 57: Like Family, with Wynn Resorts’ Matt Maddox
June 02, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MB“In Macau, we put together a plan that when we would reopen, it would be one of the safest places people could go. Everything from thermal cameras to … PPE. Every customer's given a mask. … UV technology in public bathrooms. Electro‐mist spray throughout the facility. And lots of training for our people.” For Matt Maddox, CEO of Wynn Resorts, the safety and security of employees and customers is paramount. And thanks to the company’s global operations, he was able to learn what works in China...
Ep. 56: The Analyst, with Two Sigma's David Siegel
June 02, 2020 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB“This experience is a grand experiment in online work, online education, online shopping. You really couldn't have created a better experiment, and we're learning an awful lot. Not everything is working so well, and some things are working really well.” Ever since tinkering with punch-card computers at age 10, David Siegel has had a fascination with data. He co-founded and co-chairs Two Sigma, a data-focused financial services company, and he’s also chairman of the Siegel Family Endowment, wh...
Ep. 55: Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer
May 29, 2020 18:25 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB“The fundamental decision that every society has to make is, can we suppress this virus forever if necessary? Can we afford to do that? … If you know that you're going to give up, there's no point to suppress for a while.” Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer is accustomed to seeing the big picture of a problem – and offering big solutions. In the case of COVID-19, he proposes a comprehensive “test and isolate” policy that would keep the infection rate low while allowing the economy to ra...
Ep. 54: In Translation, with NCATS’ Christopher Austin
May 28, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MB“Are we going to require the same level of evidence for a vaccine … before it is approved? Could we potentially begin to use it at the same time we're still studying it? Normally we would never do that, but it's this kind of translational innovation that this COVID crisis is making not only possible, but needed.” How do simple scientific observations – from the laboratory, clinic, or the community – become therapies and cures? It’s called translation, and since 2012, one of the 27 institutes ...
Ep. 53: Helping Hand, with Brent McIntosh
May 27, 2020 22:30 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MB“In America, we don't look to the government alone to develop the solutions. We look to the creativity and ingenuity and vitality of the private sector, whether it's corporations or philanthropic organizations for many of those solutions.” In normal times, Brent McIntosh’s charge at the Treasury Department is to advance America’s economic interests abroad. Today, that mission includes extending a helping hand: McIntosh was instrumental in getting the G7, the G20, the World Bank and the IMF to...
Ep. 52: The Stakes, with Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa
May 26, 2020 16:15 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MB“Public health will not be able to cope with this pandemic if it becomes a major crisis of the scale that we have seen in the West and in China. There's almost nothing we can do about it because we just don't have time. But it has been a massive wake-up call.” Strive Masiyiwa is in a race against the clock. The Zimbabwean-born businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist is working to shore up medical and food supply chains so African nations can manage a possible surge of coronavirus cases....
Ep. 51: Service, with Former Congressman Henry Waxman
May 26, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB“Explain things in a credible way so that the public understands why they're being asked to do things. You can't force people – especially Americans – to do things they refuse to do.” When he retired from the U.S. House of Representatives after four decades of service, Henry Waxman was considered one of the most influential and effective legislators of his era. He championed such issues as the environment, clean energy, and government oversight, sponsoring 48 bills that made it into law. The ...
Ep. 50: A Special Episode with PCF And FasterCures
May 22, 2020 15:35 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBA Special Episode on Potential Breakthroughs in COVID-19 Research Coming from Cancer Research by the Prostate Cancer Foundation and FasterCures A video recording of this episode – with helpful graphics – is also available at http://www.mikemilken.com/ (mikemilken.com). For our 50th recording, Jonathan Simons (President and CEO, Prostate Cancer Foundation) and Esther Krofah (Executive Director, FasterCures) join Mike for a special discussion about how breakthroughs in cancer laboratories are ...
Ep. 49: Time Equals Lives, with FasterCures’ Esther Krofah
May 22, 2020 15:30 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB“We spend numerous hours a day updating that tracker because what is critical is real-time information that researchers and scientists can respond to. … As I've been speaking to colleagues, ranging from NIH to these large companies, they're using that daily in their prioritization exercises to determine what they can accelerate and what the potential opportunities are.” Keeping track of rapid-pace global developments in treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 may seem to be an uphill battle. Bu...
Ep. 48: Commencement, with UCLA’s Gene Block
May 21, 2020 15:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB“Normally about 14,000 students live on our campus in our dormitories and that's down to I think less than about 900 students. … The campus has taken on an eerie feeling of really being abandoned.” Big changes are afoot at UCLA, America’s #1-rated public university. Chancellor Gene Block has already seen an 85% reduction of his on-campus workforce, and with a record of 5,000-plus classes currently being taught online, he anticipates further, more permanent alterations to the way students obta...
Ep. 47: Unprecedented, with UCLA Health’s John Mazziotta
May 20, 2020 15:15 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB“One day, for the first time in my 39 years, there were no patients in the emergency department. It was a Sunday morning. Never seen that in my life. … Heart attacks, strokes, mental illness – these people were not coming in. … There are a lot of deaths that are indirectly going to be associated with COVID-19 even though the patients never had the infection.” As the vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and the CEO of UCLA Health, John Mazziotta helms one of the crown jewels of California’s...
Ep. 46: Stewardship, with DBS Group's Piyush Gupta
May 19, 2020 19:12 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB“Most times your right or your requirement for personal privacy trumps other kinds of needs. But a pandemic is … when it becomes quite clear that sometimes the needs of the collective, the needs of society, trump the needs of the individual.” As the CEO and Director of DBS Group, a financial services firm operating in 18 countries throughout Asia, Piyush Gupta is known for anticipating and staying ahead of current trends in banking. When the pandemic hit, DBS quickly built upon the digital pl...
Ep. 45: Anchored, with Admiral James Stavridis
May 18, 2020 16:15 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB“The US and China, particularly in 2020, are on something of a collision course....We should confront where we must, we should cooperate where we can, and we should be clear-eyed that we're in for a period of real tension.” A retired 4-star, Admiral James Stavridis has not lost his focus on the future of geopolitics and American national security. Recently, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO has turned his attention to how a pandemic will alter the world order and how America might n...
Ep. 44: The Virus and the Clock, with Moderna’s Tal Zaks
May 15, 2020 16:15 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB“In this fight, where we are today—this is May of 2020—there's a lot of other companies and a lot of other approaches that are trying to generate vaccines. I wish them all success, and we all need to be successful here. I have only two competitors in this race: the virus and the clock.” If developing a COVID-19 vaccine were a race, Tal Zaks and Moderna Therapeutics won the first leg. It took them only 63 days from the time the virus was sequenced until they had a new vaccine in human clinical...
Ep. 43: Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett
May 13, 2020 16:30 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB“When I was working at ground zero, I saw a level of cooperation and willingness for everybody to sort of check their egos at the door because we knew that we were all facing an external threat. And that's exactly what we're seeing today. We're all in this together.” For Richard Hatchett, 9/11 changed everything. While serving as an oncology fellow in New York City, he quickly found himself on the front lines tending to the injured. He never looked back, shifting his focus to public health an...
Ep. 42: Foresight, with WorldQuant Predictive’s James Golden
May 12, 2020 16:15 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB“We knew that some kind of pandemic has always been inevitable….What we didn't really predict was the magnitude of the impact, the stress on the healthcare system, shocks to markets and economies….How do we predict the new normal at speed and at scale?” Predicting the future isn’t what it used to be, especially with the inherent variables of a pandemic. For WorldQuant Predictive CEO James Golden, the current crisis means putting his company’s artificial intelligence, machine learning, and qua...
Ep. 41: Play, with Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz
May 11, 2020 19:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB“Play is never canceled. You can cancel school, you can suspend retail stores or close movie theaters, but you cannot cancel play.” For Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz, taking the helm of one the world’s iconic companies two years ago was a privilege and a responsibility. In the age of COVID-19, he views the company’s mission as more important than ever to help children—and their parents—navigate the challenge. The company has even launched a special line of action figures called Thank You Heroes, whic...
Ep. 40: Can-Do, with MassMutual’s Roger Crandall
May 08, 2020 01:16 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB“You start by taking care of your people. Your people then can take care of their families and loved ones. That's how communities get taken care of. And that's kind of the building blocks that we see as being critical here.” For MassMutual’s Roger Crandall, leadership in times of a pandemic means more opportunities to help policyholders and employees create virtuous cycles. Under his stewardship, the venerable life insurance company has offered $3 billion of free life insurance to frontline ...
Ep. 39: Trial by Fire, with Credit Suisse’s Thomas Gottstein
May 08, 2020 00:55 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MB“I was deeply impressed. They managed much bigger volumes than in any normal period, and we were really very proud and still are very proud how our fixed income and equity traders managed these challenges, because it was certainly not an easy environment.” Thomas Gottstein became CEO of Credit Suisse on February 14, 2020. Within three weeks, the world had changed, and he found himself leading the storied firm through the uncharted waters of a pandemic. Moreover, Credit Suisse took a leading r...
Ep. 38: Disparities, with Freda Lewis-Hall
May 06, 2020 23:19 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB“One of the other things that has come to light with regards to COVID-19 are health disparities….in the infection rates and the hospitalization rates and in the death rates of certain communities.” As a young African American girl growing up in the early 1960s, Freda Lewis-Hall was accustomed to people telling her that she would never attain her dream of becoming a doctor. Today, she can look back at a 35-year career that included serving as Pfizer’s Executive Vice President and Chief Medic...
Ep. 37: Resilience, with Hospitality Icon Stephen J. Cloobeck
May 06, 2020 01:06 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB“The consumer is resilient. Vacations are mandatory. I believe the cruise business within a year will be back. I truly believe that. And I believe the [Las Vegas] Strip will be back within that period of time too.” As the founder of Diamond Resorts International and the former chairman of Brand USA—the nation’s first public-private partnership to promote tourism—Nevada native Stephen J. Cloobeck has led the hospitality industry through good times and bad. As he consults with companies and go...
Ep. 36: The Pioneer, with the National Cancer Institute’s Steven Rosenberg
May 04, 2020 23:48 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB“We're perhaps working now at 10% of where we were working before the COVID infections. It's heartbreaking to think what cancer patients are going through as they're watching their cancers grow, and yet have to deal with this threat of the virus and problems in getting access to care.” When Steven Rosenberg joined the National Cancer Institute more than 45 years ago, he was determined to prove that a patient’s own immune system could be used to fight cancer. His interleukin-2 therapy was appr...
Ep. 35: Access, with Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon
May 02, 2020 01:01 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB“This is a demand shutdown in the economy that's affecting all businesses….If you're a small business, your access to capital in some cases can be limited, [so] that's why getting resources to these small businesses that employ so many is so, so important.” For David Solomon and Goldman Sachs, helping small enterprises navigate the crisis requires access—to expertise, education, and capital. The firm continues its 10,000 Small Businesses program and has pledged more than half a billion dolla...
Ep. 34: Upside Down, with Vivek Ramaswamy
May 02, 2020 00:01 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBVivek Ramaswamy Founder and CEO, Roivant Sciences “Seeing my own family members in New York go through what they're going through has...not only turned our personal life upside down, but also has turned upside down...the near-term priorities of our company to help do our part in addressing this pandemic.” When Vivek Ramaswamy was only 28, he founded the pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences. When COVID-19 hit New York City, his wife was a frontline medical worker—and pregnant with their son...
Ep. 33: Public-Private Partners, with DFC’s Adam Boehler
May 01, 2020 00:11 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBAdam Boehler CEO, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) There are places in the United States now with little to no cases, and if the states have the ability to do contact tracing with some testing to ensure that if there's a flare we can move quickly, then I think it's fine to open up now as long as one could take very quick action. “We're testing 200,000 Americans a day. That's an 80x increase, and we've done 5.2 million tests to date. That's not only number one in...
Ep. 32: Sequencing, with Illumina’s Francis deSouza
April 30, 2020 23:24 - 17 minutes - 16 MBFrancis deSouza President and CEO, Illumina “The first genome sequence of the virus that was published on January 12th online was done on Illumina machines, and so we have been working on this outbreak [since] well before it became a pandemic.” Sequencing DNA quickly and cheaply has revolutionized medicine with new cures and therapies that have extended and saved lives. As president and CEO of Illumina, Francis deSouza has been at the forefront of these advances and is leading his company t...
Ep. 31: Backstop, with the Veterans Administration’s Richard Stone
April 29, 2020 23:41 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB“As we began to see in January the evolution of this virus...we began reorienting ourselves to our inpatient responsibilities and to the potential that the nation would need us to be its backstop in a healthcare system.” Dr. Richard Stone’s job title is as clear and direct as the man who occupies it. As the executive in charge of the Veterans Health Administration, the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system, he carries the awesome responsibility of protecting the health of more than...
Ep. 30: Values, with Kroger’s Rodney McMullen
April 28, 2020 23:56 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBRodney McMullen Chairman and CEO, The Kroger Co. “We made the decision to share publicly all the work that we were doing internally in case it could be helpful….We're trying to pay it forward just like others paid it forward to us.” When Rodney McMullen took a high school job bagging groceries at his local Kroger, he had no way to know he’d go on to lead the company—now one of America’s largest employers. Another surprise in his American Dream story: that his associates would one day be...
Ep. 29: Powerhouse, with Siemens USA’s Barbara Humpton
April 28, 2020 23:20 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBBarbara Humpton President and CEO, Siemens USA “We often talk about Siemens as being a company that was built to serve society. And that mission really hasn't changed….We have real expertise in electrification, automation, and digitalization. And that's all coming into play right now as the nation wrestles with COVID-19.” Hospitals. Factories. Data centers. Government facilities. If it’s an essential service or industry in this country, chances are Siemens USA is helping to power and ma...
Ep. 28: Triage, with Ray Dalio
April 28, 2020 00:49 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBRay Dalio Founder, Co-CIO and Co-Chairman, Bridgewater Associates “A financial bomb has gone off. And then you have to say, okay, who are you going to help first?...Choices have to be made. The real question is whether we can do that together in a bipartisan way, in a skillful way, because there's enough money and credit to go around and this can be done.” For master investor Ray Dalio, COVID-19 presents a unique opportunity to create greater fairness in our system. The founder of Bridg...
Ep. 27: Reaching Out, with Humana’s Bruce Broussard
April 28, 2020 00:20 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBBruce Broussard President and CEO, Humana “Many of our members are alone and in their homes, and that can become quite an impact on their mental health. Having a phone call and being able to talk to somebody sounds so simple, but has been so impactful.” As president and CEO of one of America’s largest health insurance companies, Bruce Broussard considers every aspect of care for Humana’s more than 20 million members. These days, he’s especially focused on making sure his 65-and-over mem...
Ep. 26: Greenlight, with Alibaba’s Joe Tsai
April 25, 2020 00:28 - 16 minutes - 15 MBJoe Tsai, Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Alibaba Group; Governor, Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty - “When we reopened, we were very tentative about letting people back into the office….You have to show your health code, which is attached to the Alipay app. It'll show a green, yellow, or red code; basically it reflects a lot of data—where you've been, who you've been with.” If you’ve never heard of Alibaba, chances are you aren’t one of the 700 million active annual consumers livin...