What Does It Profit Podcast
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsWhat does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Spoiler alert: Nothing.
This bible verse has endured over the centuries as a reminder that we can't put our price tag on what matters most. Yet, time and again, businesses have put profits above all -- leading our world to the brink of a climate catastrophe, an inequality crisis, and the greatest extinction of other creatures since the dinosaurs (except this time, the meteor is us).
Can we align growing returns with the greater good? Former investment banker turned business ethicist Dr. Dawn Carpenter believes we can -- and that figuring out how just might save the world.
In What Does It Profit, Dawn talks with the world's leading thinkers and researchers, entrepreneurs and executives, exploring the most innovative ways we can reconcile capitalism's demand for profit with the long term well-being of people and the planet. From socially responsible investing to conscious consumerism to business ethics in this age of extremes, Dawn is your guide to the cutting-edge ideas and experiments driving the purpose-driven business revolution. What Does It Profit?
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S4.E6: Beyond Belief |How AI is Reshaping Religion
December 27, 2023 13:00 - 13 minutes - 29.9 MBIn the final episode of the fourth season of the What Does It Profit? Podcast, Dr. Dawn explores the impacts of artificial intelligence on religion . Dr. Dawn speaks to Josh Franklin, a rabbi at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in New York, who used the chatbot ChatGPT to help write one of his sermons. Rabbi Franklin tells us his thoughts on how he hopes AI can be used as a tool for people to become more spiritual. We also hear from Mark Graves, a researcher and director with t...
S4.E5: Express Lane | AI's Journey to Better Transportation?
December 06, 2023 10:12 - 10 minutes - 25.1 MBOn this episode of the What Does It Profit? podcast, hitch a ride along with Dr. Dawn as she explores the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on public transportation in the U.S. In this episode, we hear first from Bill Domanico, a retired New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) driver, who talks about the ways technology changed during his career. We then turn to Barry Wilson and Anthony Garland with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, which represen...
Thanksgiving Blend: Brewing Change at Starbucks | BONUS
November 22, 2023 05:00 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBThis Thanksgiving week on the What Does It Profit? podcast we’re taking a break from this season’s AI theme to extend some thank you-s. Listen in for a re-air of our award-winning Season 3 episode, “Brewing Change: Labor Organizing at Starbucks.” Loyal listeners know that in this episode we left off with the story of the triumph of unionizing efforts in Buffalo, New York, which is where Starbucks Workers United got started. We also left off anticipating the annual shareholder meeting w...
S4.E4: POTUS IRL| Public Trust and AI Priorities
November 08, 2023 03:43 - 12 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this unexpected mini-episode, Dr. Dawn pivots from our regular programming to reflect on President Biden’s sweeping executive order on AI. The executive order, passed on October 30, 2023, is the Biden Administration’s attempt to reconcile tech companies’ demand for profit and unchecked innovation while ensuring the public trust of Americans given the rapid rise of AI in just the past year. To better understand the executive order, Dr. Dawn speaks to Ben Winters, the Electronic Priva...
S4.E3: Hard Hats to Hard Drives | How AI is Revolutionizing Construction
October 25, 2023 04:00 - 10 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. Dawn examines the newest addition to the construction industry’s toolbox: AI technology. In this episode, we learn that AI is like a double-edged sword: While AI technology certainly threatens jobs in the construction industry, it’s also ushering in a new era of efficiency and safety. We begin this episode in conversation with Bella McCann, the president of the woman-owned and Washington, D.C.-based construction company, Cann Construction. McCann takes us to a reno...
S4.E2: Entertaining AI: Disrupting the Creative World
October 11, 2023 09:30 - 12 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this episode, Dr. Dawn heads straight into the scene of the action, Paramount Studios in Hollywood, where writers and actors are fighting an existential battle that stems in large part from AI. We look beyond the glitzy Hollywood sets to learn more about how AI threatens the livelihoods of creatives in an industry where most struggle to even make ends meet. We set the stage for what feels like a David and Goliath story as we spotlight the battles writers and actors have been fighti...
S4.E1: California Dreaming | AI in the Heart of San Francisco
September 27, 2023 15:29 - 18 minutes - 42.9 MBWelcome to Season 4. In this kick-off episode, we travel with Dr. Dawn to the hometown of tech, San Francisco. We start the season this way because we feel that it's important to start in the real world before we venture into the virtual one. Dr. Dawn shares her observations of fear, hope, and heart. Special thanks in this episode to the Faithful Fools, the quirky souls in the Tenderloin who remind us all to keep it real. WDIP is powered by the Solidarity Economy Workshop at Georgetown ...
S4 Trailer | AI and the World of Work and Wealth
September 06, 2023 04:00 - 3 minutes - 8.51 MBWelcome to Season 4 of What Does It Profit. In this season, we're bringing you six stories about the hottest topic on the planet-- artificial intelligence (AI). Wanting to see firsthand what all the hype is about, Dr. Dawn packs up the WDIP production team and heads to Silicon Valley. In Season 4, we connect the dots between AI and the social and moral value of economic life. We dive into the impacts of AI in the entertainment industry, corporate management, public transportation, enginee...
WDIP | Summer School: Benefit Corporations
August 17, 2023 23:40 - 6 minutes - 15.4 MBWe've reached WDIP Summer School 2023. Our final lesson might seem a bit technical, but attention to this detail can make all the difference to the success of a social purpose enterprise. In class today, we learn that how a business is incorporated has a real impact on how a business venture can manage a social mission. Benefit Corporations provide entrepreneurs with a tool to change the culture of business investment and operations. We urge you to rewind to Season 3, Episode 4 (April 13...
WDIP | Summer School: Circularity
August 02, 2023 07:00 - 5 minutes - 12.2 MBWelcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who want to get ahead. Every two weeks throughout the summer, we’ll look back on lessons learned from Season 3 which was all about making change… right where you are. In class today, we explain the circular economy– a vision for a more sustainable, stable, and resilient economic system. As it gains steam in cities and towns across America, we ...
WDIP | Summer School: Child Labor
July 21, 2023 00:53 - 5 minutes - 12.4 MBWelcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who want to get ahead. Every two weeks throughout the summer, we’ll look back on lessons learned from Season 3 which was all about making change… right where you are. In class today, we explain modern child labor. We are not talking about cutting the lawn or doing the dishes, or even the retail or food service work we associate with first...
WDIP | Summer School: Greenwashing & Social Washing
July 05, 2023 18:46 - 5 minutes - 12.9 MBWelcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who want to get ahead. Every two weeks throughout the summer, we’ll look back on lessons learned from Season 3 which was all about making change right where you are. In class today, we explain “Greenwashing” and “Social Washing”– two ethically similar ideas that are important to understand for anyone who believes that there is a social an...
WDIP | Summer School: ESOPs
June 21, 2023 20:25 - 5 minutes - 12.5 MBWelcome to WDIP Summer School. It’s not summer school for those who have failed. It’s summer school for those who want to catch up, and for those who want to get ahead. Every two weeks throughout the summer, we’ll look back on lessons learned from Season 3 which was all about making change right where you are. In class today, we explain the ESOP– the employee stock ownership plan and how it is an important tool for creating community wealth. We urge you to rewind to Season 3, Episode ...
Fair Ball: A Living Wage for Minor League Baseball
May 10, 2023 16:19 - 19 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. Dawn wraps up Season 3 by sliding into home plate. She takes us on a journey inside professional baseball. We hear the incredible story of how an inspiring group of athletes, allied with social justice advocates, finally took a stand to demand that the work of minor league baseball players was worth a living wage. Remarkably, and without much fanfare outside the world of baseball, a collective bargaining agreement was reached between the minor leaguers and Major L...
Industrial Roots: Designing a Circular Economy and Creating Homespun Wealth
April 26, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode, Dr. Dawn takes us on a trip to find her roots in rural North Carolina. She is the granddaughter of an orphan who worked in the NC textile mills in the 1940s. Without much to go on, Dr. Dawn leans on insights from James Benton, author of Fraying Fabric, and Jimmy Warlick, historian and documentarian of the Workers’ Legacy Project to fill in the gaps. Dr. Dawn gives us the context of the industrial past only to introduce us to the inspiring efforts of a new generation of...
Solar Holler: Mining the Sun in West Virginia
April 13, 2023 23:41 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode, we are headed to West Virginia to flip the script on what we know about the energy business in the heart of coal country. We introduce you to a new type of energy and a new type of business. Meet Solar Holler, the “benefit corporation” that addresses some of the toughest economic issues in West Virginia. Joseph “Joe” and Elizabeth Opoke are father-and-daughter descendants of miners who came to Marion County, WV in the turn of the 20th century. Their immigrant kin ca...
Dangerous Business: The Human Cost of the Meat We Eat
March 29, 2023 06:59 - 19 minutes - 44 MBIn this episode, we head to Crete, Nebraska, America's heartland, in our quest to gain insight into the human cost of the meat we eat. We tell the extraordinary story of the "Children of Smithfield," the adult children of meatpacking workers at Smithfield Foods who stood up to Big Meat, the governor, and others in positions of power and authority to proclaim that their parents were not "expendable." These brave children stood up to meat producers whose callus and irresponsible response to C...
Brewing Change: Labor Organizing at Starbucks
March 15, 2023 04:20 - 23 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode, we tell an almost surreal story. It is the origin story of “union busting” at Starbucks, one of the country’s best-known progressive and socially-conscious companies, and the highest ranking food service company on the list of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies. Our host Dr. Dawn Carpenter, a Starbucks shareholder, is encouraged by activist shareholder efforts to seek intervention at the board-level to remedy what a New York administrative law judge recently ruled to...
Recovery Hardware: Retooling the Human Spirit
March 01, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes - 57.4 MBIn our Season 3 kickoff, we celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit. We step into the psyche of Gina Schaefer, the founder and CEO of A Few Cool Hardware Stores in-and-around Washington, DC. Gina combined her entrepreneurial spirit and love of community into a space for people recovering from substance use disorder to rebuild their lives. One of Gina’s former employees, Shane, shares a deeply personal story of being the gay son of a Pentecostal minister with broken dreams and a he...
Season 3 Trailer
February 07, 2023 19:57 - 2 minutes - 2.88 MBTo the loyal WDIP tribe, welcome back! We've missed you. Thanks for your patience as we re-vamped the show. We hope you like the changes. For those who are just finding us, thanks for giving us a listen. We're the podcast for those who think that there is a social and moral value in economic life. We believe in the power of the human spirit. Ultimately, we believe that each of us has choices to make. And we think one question can help. In the work we do, in the things we buy, in the investme...
SPECIAL EDITION | Whistling At the Fake: The Value of Truth in Science
March 09, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 49.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. Dawn is in conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Bik and Dr. Ivan Oransky. Dr. Elisabeth Bik is a microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant who has worked to call out fraudulent scientific papers. She became renowned in her fight against the bad science behind hydroxychloroquine as an effective therapy against COVID-19 that resulted in a global Twitter assault. Dr. Ivan Oransky is an accomplished journalist, editor, and educator who founded Retraction Watch, the w...
Off-Season | Meme Stocks vs. Short-Selling for Good-- Revisited
June 30, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBAs we head into the 4th of July holiday weekend, we dig into the WDIP back catalog to revisit a conversation from October 2020 with The Assassin, famed short-seller Fahmi Quadir. Now that meme stocks are a thing and short-selling and hedge funds have made their way into social media lexicon, we thought it was time to take another listen. We'll be back in two weeks to share with you a conversation with Dr. Dawn and the folks at Hustlers for a Cause-- talking entrepreneurship an...
Off-Season | Finance Justice: Promoting Lives of Greater Economic Success
June 09, 2021 04:00 - 17 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this off-season episode, we dig into the WDIP back catalog to revisit a conversation with Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) CEO, Lisa Mensah where we talked about the idea of "finance justice." The original conversation was released in December 2020. The work keeps pressing forward as OFN seeks to build coalitions of investors that believe that investing in people pays rich dividends by building lives of greater economic success. Special thanks to Peter Collins for sharing his soulful r...
Off-Season | About WDIP and Dr. Dawn w/Uncertain Things
May 25, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 50.8 MBThis weekend is Memorial Day weekend-- the unofficial start of summer... at last! At What Does It Profit, we are officially in the "Off-Season" and busy cleaning house, tuning up, and otherwise getting ready for Season 3. During the off-season, we wanted you to get to know more about our host and the ethics work behind the show. We also want to introduce new listeners to insights from our back catalog in mini-episodes beginning in June. This week, we introduce you to our friends, Adaam...
Capitalism In Service to Human Rights
April 28, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 59.4 MBWe’ve reached the end of our second season. This is the time when we take a pause and look back. In today’s episode, it means looking back to our pilot episode about shareholder activism and our Season 1 bonus episode called The Price of the Ecuadorian Chernobyl. This is the story of Chevron and the decades of oil dumping in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In this episode, we jump back into this epic David and Goliath story and get to know Steven Donziger, the human rights lawyer at the center of ...
The Economic Value of Dignity
April 14, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBWe’ve reached the last regular episode of Season 2. Hold on to your passport. We’re still travelling. We start in New York and then head to India with Megha Desai. Megha is the former ad agency protégé, who after a decade in the business, answered the call of the ancient Indian philosophy of Dharma. She has energized a newly transformed family foundation into a leading voice for economically and socially marginalized women in India. Megha’s amazing work has empowered women in ways that bre...
A New Soul for the Global Economy - The Economy of Francesco
April 07, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBDespite being in the midst of a global pandemic, we’re going to take a trip around the world. We're talking about the Economy of Francesco (EoF) with Paulo Santori, an economic historian in Rome and with Myrian Castello, a “human-right-to-dream” activist and facilitator in Brazil. EoF is a global youth movement inspired by Pope Francis and Saint Francis of Assisi whose members and their co-operators believe that now is the time to be bold and build an economic future worthy of our humanity.
Time: The Most Valuable Commodity (Roberta MacDonald)
March 31, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 52.6 MBThis week we stay in the co-op space a little longer and get a two-for-one. As an homage to Women’s History Month, we talk with one of the most celebrated marketer of co-ops-- and one of less than a handful of women responsible for driving the development of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, DC. We talk with Roberta MacDonald, Senior Vice President for Brand Strategy at the Cabot Creamery Cooperative about life and the story behind of one of America’s most beloved agricultural co...
Shared Economic Benefits: Intro to Co-ops (Casey Fannon)
March 24, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week, we’re going to switch things up a bit. We are going to talk about the idea of inclusion, but from a slightly different perspective. We are going to learn all about economic structure called a co-op. Sure you likely have heard of housing co-ops, maybe even grocery co-ops… but do you know just how common they are? Let’s talk co-ops with Casey Fannon, President of the National Cooperative Bank. Meet the WDIP Team at www.whatdoesitprofitpodcast.com, and meet our host at www.daw...
The Diversity of Superheroes (Logan Scott)
March 17, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week, we talk with Logan Scott, Manager for Diversity and Inclusion at The Walt Disney Company. Logan's work during Black History Month on the New York Times' 1619 Project inspired us. Logan talks about superheroes, diversity, equity, inclusion, and what it all means for business.
Diversity as a Superpower in Business (Logan Scott)
March 17, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week, we talk with Logan Scott, Manager for Diversity and Inclusion at The Walt Disney Company. Logan's work during Black History Month on the New York Times' 1619 Project inspired us. Logan talks about superheroes, diversity, equity, inclusion, and what it all means for business.
The Power of Superheroes
March 03, 2021 07:42 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBThis week, we take storytelling to a whole new level. We learn that each of us is a “superhero” at something. We talk to the man whose Instagram feed has selfies with the Hollywood Superhero A-LIST. In some ways, we think of our guest today as a kind of superhero himself, building community where it's needed. Today, we talk with the legendary Gareb Shamus, former Chairman and CEO of Wizard Entertainment, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Ace Comic Con. #KamalaHarris #ReadAloud
The Power of Superheroes (Gareb Shamus)
March 03, 2021 07:42 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBThis week, we take storytelling to a whole new level. We learn that each of us is a “superhero” at something. We talk to the man whose Instagram feed has selfies with the Hollywood Superhero A-LIST. In some ways, we think of our guest today as a kind of superhero himself, building community where it's needed. Today, we talk with the legendary Gareb Shamus, former Chairman and CEO of Wizard Entertainment, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Ace Comic Con. #KamalaHarris #ReadAloud
Corporate Democracy from the Inside Out (James McRitchie)
February 24, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBThe winds of change are blowing in corporate governance. Where will they take us? Time will tell. This week we have a shareholder perspective from a man whose name is well-known in the investor relations offices of many of the most well-known corporations in America. We like to call him a dean of the Shareholder Rights Movement, others like to call him a corporate gadfly. You decide: corporate gadfly or an inside progenitor of the next generation of capitalism. Shareholder Activist, James Mc...
Business Roundtable: Re-conceptualizing the Corporation? (Jessica DiNapoli)
February 17, 2021 05:22 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBIn 2020, JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon’s tenure at the helm of the Business Roundtable expired. But what about this whole new way of doing business? In 2021, shareholder activists put the stakeholder governance paradigm to the test, and JP Morgan said, no. The whole issue got us thinking. It’s time for an update on this new vision for a stakeholder approach to corporate governance. We talk with someone very familiar with what’s been going on, Reuter’s corporate governance reporter, Jessica DiN...
Transcending Robinhood: Finance for Good? (JC de Swaan)
February 10, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBIn this episode, we're not talking about bulls or bears. We're talking about the big, fat elephant in the room. The finance industry is ethically-conflicted. We talk with JC de Swaan, hedge fund investor and Princeton finance ethicist, about Robinhood, Wirecard and a few other notable companies-- as a way to frame how to do finance better. The hope is to inspire the idea that finance can be a force for good.
Democratizing Asset Management (U.S. Rep. Andy Levin)
February 03, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBIn this episode, we explore the idea that everyone who has retirement assets should have the ability to know where their money is invested and how it has an impact in the world. With knowledge comes power-- the power to make sound economic and moral decisions. Our guest is Congressman Andy Levin, Vice Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee and author of legislation that could make that happen.
What is Life Worth? (Ken Feinberg)
January 27, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBIn this episode, we’re going to a difficult place. How do we as a society express-- or dare we say-- determine the value of a human life? The question itself forces us to make an important distinction between economic value and moral value. And to help us sort through this, we couldn’t think of anyone better than the Special Master of the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund-- Ken Feinberg. He is arguably the world’s leading expert mediator between the bank and the tragedy.
Los Muchachos: Ride or Die (Jorge Valdes)
January 20, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 90 MBWe start our second season with one of the most notorious narco money men in US history, Jorge Valdes. We hear the story of how a 10-year old Cuban refugee becomes the youngest person to work at the Federal Reserve Bank in Miami and who then goes on in the '70s and '80s to run the international operations of the Medellin drug cartel. Jorge is one of only a handful of the leadership from that era who is still alive to tell the tale-- and Jorge's story has lessons for all of us.
Season 1 Bonus Episode: The Price of the Ecuadorian Chernobyl
January 13, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBIn this special bonus episode, we revisit an issue we explored in the first episode of the season and talk with Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams about her work to engage with Chevron at its 2020 annual shareholder meeting, using her activist shareholder voice to urge for Chevron shareholders to be able to call special meetings to discuss significant issues affecting shareholder value. In this case, it happens to be the over $3 billion the company has spent evading is over $9 billion obli...
Season 2 Trailer
December 30, 2020 23:46 - 3 minutes - 4.25 MBWelcome to those who have just found us... and welcome back to our loyal WDIP listeners. This three minute trailer takes a tour through some of what we learned in Season 1 on our quest to explore the moral and social value of business. Season 2 promises introductions to voices you might never imagine on a business show. Think of it as Business Talk 2.0-- listen with your conscience. Join us for new episodes on Wednesdays. Season 2 launches January 20 2021.
The Family Business: Italian-Style
December 23, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode, we rewind the clock to pre-COVID days and take an "audio" vacation to the Amalfi Coast of Italy. We talk with culinary entrepreneur Chiara Lima of the famed Mamma Agata Cooking School in Ravello. Family businesses can be found all over the world, and here in Italy the "happy hands" of the entire family are involved. Buon Natale... Saluti!
Green Swans & Regenerative Capitalism
December 16, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBIn this episode, we talk with CSR and sustainability legend, John Elkington. John takes us beyond his "people, planet, and profit" to the "U-bend" and on to the green swans that bring us regenerative capitalism. John is one of the world's leading futurists and is here with us to share his hopeful vision for the future.
Finance Justice & Finance First Responders
December 09, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBIn this episode, we talk with Lisa Mensah, President and CEO of the Opportunity Finance Network about "finance justice." We talk about how the struggle for justice in our country has much to do with money. We talk about the work of CDFIs (Community Develop Financial Institutions) and the role that they play in fostering economic justice in some of our nation's most challenged and disinvested communities. She offers a vision for a path forward and celebrates and encourages participation wi...
Idle Savings - An Opportunity for Change
December 02, 2020 05:00 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBIn this episode, we talk with Cat Berman, CEO and co-founder of CNote, a specialty investment firm that seeks to turn idle savings into resources for change. Cat left her role at Charles Schwab to use her finance and investment skills to bring high-quality financial products to underserved markets. Cat discusses the transformative power of finance and the multiplier affect of strategic investments.
Patriotic Millionaires and the "S" word
November 25, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBIn this episode, we talk with former BlackRock executive, Morris Pearl, about his crusade to enlist his fellow millionaires to support the idea that even the rich see it in their interest to pay more taxes. Capitalist to the core, Pearl warns critics not to conflate paying taxes and civic duty with the naughty scare-word: socialism.
Corporate Mismanagement: Bad Apples, Barrels, and Orchards
November 18, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBIn this episode, we talk with business ethicist Kirk O. Hanson about corporate misbehavior. He and co-author Marc Epstein posit a theory that not only are there bad apples, but there are also bad barrels-- and some industries are just ripe with bad orchards. In their book, Rotten: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues and What to Do about It, they tell the tales that end up inspiring corporate scandal documentaries on Netflix. But what they do that the documentaries don't is give a prescript...
Whistleblowers: Forward Indicators of Risk
November 11, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBIn this episode, we talk with one of the world’s leading lawyers for whistleblowers, Mary Inman of Constantine Cannon. Mary tells us the story behind the famous whistleblowers at Theranos and Boeing and offers insight on the often-heroic sacrifices of those who see it as their duty to the common good to stand up for better behavior in business. Mary challenges us to rethink how we view whistleblowers and inspires us to see them as she does—forward indicators of risk.
The Corporate Civil Rights Movement
November 04, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBIn this episode, we talk with UCLA corporate law historian Adam Winkler about that other civil rights movement-- the corporate civil rights movement. Its seems like an apt conversation to have on a business show amidst these dynamic times and this generation's civil rights movement. Move over Pete Seeger, Beyonce, and Z-Ro and make room for Roy Zimmerman. Corporations as people... corporations with civil rights? It is an old story. In fact, you might be surprised just how old.
Politics - Corporate Style
October 28, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBIn this episode, our guests talk corporate politics—but not the back-biting, ladder-climbing politics kind. We talk with Dan Ekstein, a leading corporate political strategist and muse about Levi's and Patagonia's call to political action. We also talk with Gabe Rissman, co-Founder of yourstake.org—a data management company that works with investment advisors to help them identify the ESG metrics of portfolios—including the political dimensions. Big surprises when Gabe takes a look at our h...