Now, What’s Next?
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWe’re hearing a lot about supply chains right now. But how did we get here? Journalist Sonari Glinton meets the people who make and transport our stuff to find out how we’re all connected and why that matters. Now, What’s Next? explores the human stories behind the big, sometimes hidden economic forces that shape how we live, what we value and how we make choices.
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Can a Building Save Energy, Money and Maybe Your Job?
September 15, 2017 21:37 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBCan a building be great for the environment, great for the people inside, great for the bottom line and even great for the economy? In this episode, we visit Seattle's Bullitt Center, one of the greenest commercial buildings in the world. Morgan Stanley analyst Faty Dembele shares her research on the opportunities and impacts of sustainable building solutions, while University of Washington researcher Heather Burpee explains what it takes to design a building that goes far beyond a ...
What Do You Need for a Team to Succeed?
August 18, 2017 19:09 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBYou might assume that building great teams only requires hiring smart people who get along and can work toward a common goal, but that isn’t necessarily what the data tells us. Carnegie Mellon professor Anita Williams-Woolley shares her research on how to maximize collective intelligence, or the type of intelligence that emerges from effective collaboration. We learn about the importance of having cognitive diversity on a team, and the critical step of creating the right environment...
How Can You Avoid Thinking Like the Herd?
July 21, 2017 20:22 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBSmart decision-making takes more than intelligent people and good data. The theories of behavioral economics inform how businesses, and the rest of us, can try to avoid the irrational responses that may work against our best interests.
When Software Drives the Car, Who Pays the Insurance?
July 06, 2017 20:39 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBThis week we're focusing on what may be a blind spot in all the excitement over autonomous vehicles: the future of car insurance. How will it work if there are no actual drivers to insure? We get a glimpse of the not-too-distant future by traveling to Mcity, a leading self-driving car test site at the University of Michigan and we hear from Jon Hocking, who covers the auto insurance industry for Morgan Stanley Research, as well as Hilary Rowen, a legal insurance expert who keeps clo...
Want Better Profits at Less Risk? Hire More Women
June 30, 2017 13:05 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBThis week we're looking at gender diversity in the workplace. Ashley talks with Jana Rich, an executive recruiter in Silicon Valley, who has spent years working through the thorny issues of changing the gender mix in big firms. Plus, you'll hear from Eva Zlotnicka, whose work on the Sustainable + Responsible Investment team within Morgan Stanley Research has produced results that have even the quants paying attention to how workplace gender diversity can impact investment results. ...
Is Alternative Energy Really Alternative Anymore?
June 22, 2017 19:08 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBThis week we travel to Arizona to see how alternative energy, solar power investment, and utilities are taking what was on the fringes of science 30 years ago and turning it into the norm.