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Putin's War Of Aggression, One Year In
Consequential - February 14, 2023 10:12 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHow we got here and what needs to happen next with Russia and Ukraine. In the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a cohort of young Westerners flocked to Moscow, including many idealists who were eager to support the evolution of a democratic Russia. Today, Russia is on the other ...
Next Steps for Gun Reform
Consequential - February 07, 2023 10:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn June, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law. While full of good news for gun-reform advocates, this law—which was inspired by mass shootings—has been criticized for not actually doing much to address them. In this episode, a closer look at gun-death statistics s...
Is AI Shrinking the Middle Class?
Consequential - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThere’s been a lot of anxiety lately about AI replacing workers. But what many economists are really worried about is not mass unemployment, but polarization. Emerging technology, they say, isn’t coming for all our jobs—it’s shrinking the middle class, specifically. Experts warn that we’ve seen ...
Economy, Rebooted
Consequential - January 24, 2023 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGee wiz, ever wonder why the 1950s were so swell for the economy? Technological advancements in things like telecommunications, transportation, and consumer electronics helped ignite the most expansive period of growth and productivity we’ve ever seen. For some time, economists have been watch...
Season 5 Trailer | Welcome Back, Congress. … Now what?
Consequential - January 13, 2023 13:58 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThis season on Consequential, we’ll ask experts about a range of pressing issues that are top of mind as policymakers get down to business: How to reboot our economy for the better; workforce polarization in the age of AI; next steps for gun reform; and how to think about Russia policy as Putin’...
Tepper Reads Fall 2022 Podcast #2 - Confessions of Two Recovering Marks
Tepper Reads - November 18, 2022 14:33 - 20 minutesIn this episode of the Tepper Reads podcast, Accelerate Leadership Center Academic Program Managers Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner discuss the character of Mark in Weike Wang's Joan is Okay. Topics covered include: how exposure to diversity and different cultures increases self-awareness an...
Tepper Reads Fall 2022 Podcast #1 - Cogs and Cars
Tepper Reads - October 28, 2022 13:35 - 21 minutesIn the first of two podcasts this fall about Weike Wang's Joan is Okay, Academic Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss how people don't always lead or influence in the same way, learning to empathize with characters you don't like, and...
Tepper Reads Spring 2022 Podcast #3 - The Ghosts of History
Tepper Reads - April 13, 2022 13:32 - 13 minutesIn the final podcast of the Spring 2022 Tepper Reads project, Academic Program Managers in Tepper's Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, continue their conversation about Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers. In this episode they talk about history and the importance of k...
Tepper Reads Spring 2022 Podcast #2 - America: Metonymy for More
Tepper Reads - March 17, 2022 15:44 - 19 minutesOur discussion of Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers continues in the second podcast of the Spring 2022 season. Academic Program Managers in the Tepper School of Business' Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about metonymy, how it's different from metaphor, and ho...
Tepper Reads Fall 2022 Podcast #1 - Why Gold Diggers?
Tepper Reads - March 02, 2022 18:21 - 17 minutesIn the first episode of the spring 2022 podcast season, academic program managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss why Gold Diggers is the Tepper Reads pick for this spring. In the discusssion they touch upon how the novel helps one understand the...
Tepper Reads Spring 2022 Podcast #1 - Why Gold Diggers?
Tepper Reads - March 02, 2022 18:21 - 17 minutesIn the first episode of the spring 2022 podcast season, academic program managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, discuss why Gold Diggers is the Tepper Reads pick for this spring. In the discusssion they touch upon how the novel helps one understand the...
Consequential Policymaking: What's Next?
Consequential - February 16, 2022 05:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAfter a bill as significant as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is signed into law, both regulators and the general public have important roles to play. In our season finale, we're discussing regulatory policymaking and the future of infrastructure investment, with guests Ramayya Krish...
Investing in our Future Workforce
Consequential - February 02, 2022 14:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe pandemic may have accelerated the future of work, but it is certainly not the only factor necessitating targeted investment in the workforce. This week's episode looks at legislation aimed at reskilling and workforce development, with guests Jose-Marie Griffiths and Joe Trotter.
The Infrastructure of Care
Consequential - January 19, 2022 05:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsCare is one of the most integral aspects of our society, and one of the most contentious aspects of infrastructure legislation. This week's episode looks at the role the care sector plays our workforce and economy, as well as the long-term effects of investing in care as infrastructure, with gue...
Transit of the Future
Consequential - December 22, 2021 05:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPublic transportation is one of the most critical aspects of our infrastructure, but it is also one of the most imperiled and underfunded. This week's episode looks at how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan's historic investment in public transit and other targeted policymaking can build the tra...
The World's Largest Machine
Consequential - December 08, 2021 05:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur electrical grid has been called the world's largest machine, but it's in need of some serious updates. This week's episode looks at a few areas of investment in our energy infrastructure that could make a strong, long-term impact, featuring Jennifer Hiller, Lori Bennear, Akshaya Jha, and Jo...
Intro to Infrastructure
Consequential - November 24, 2021 05:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhile infrastructure may have taken center stage in this year's policy discussions, the United States has been trying to figure out what to do about our infrastructure for a long time. This week's episode looks at the current state of our infrastructure, as well as past and future infrastructure...
Tepper Reads Fall 2021 Podcast #2 - Leanne Meyer
Tepper Reads - November 23, 2021 14:39 - 16 minutesIn the second and final episode of the Fall 2021 Tepper Reads podcast we speak with Leanne Meyer, Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business about Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown. Leanne talks about her immigrant experience, t...
Season 4 Trailer - Consequential Policymaking
Consequential - November 10, 2021 05:01 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhat are the long-term impacts of targeted investments in our physical and human infrastructure? Beginning November 24, Season 4 of the Consequential Podcast will examine how policymaking in such areas as public transportation, energy, and workforce development will affect our future.
Season 4 Trailer | Infrastructure
Consequential - November 10, 2021 05:01 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhat are the long-term impacts of targeted investments in our physical and human infrastructure? Beginning November 24, Season 4 of the Consequential Podcast will examine how policymaking in such areas as public transportation, energy, and workforce development will affect our future.
Tepper Reads Fall 2021 Podcast #1 - Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner
Tepper Reads - October 28, 2021 15:30 - 18 minutesIn the first episode of the Tepper Reads podcast for fall 2021, Accelerate Leadership Center program managers, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about the genre mashups of Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown, what white space on a page means, how something can be both funny and important, an...
Community Health & Equity with Erin Dalton from DHS
Heinz Radio - July 13, 2021 02:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode of Heinz Radio, we sat down with Erin Dalton to talk about the intersection of equity and community health and the role that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services plays in that space. We also spoke about the impact that COVID-19 has had public health, and concluded wi...
Tepper Reads Spring 2021 Podcast #5 - Leanne Meyer
Tepper Reads - April 09, 2021 16:08 - 21 minutesIt's our final podcast of the Spring 2021 Tepper Reads season, and it's a great one. For our final podcast we talk with Leanne Meyer, Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center at Tepper, about what she's reading, leadership and identity development, and how it relates to The Vanishi...
Creating Immersive Experiences with the Arts & Tech: A Conversation with ARTECHOUSE
Heinz Radio - March 29, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe arts and technology are often considered to be opposites of one another; however, they can also be merged to create immersive spaces that inspire wonder, creativity, and imagination. One such example is ARTECHOUSE, an immersive artspace that engages the audience in innovative hi-tech art bot...
Tepper Reads Spring 2021 Podcast #4 - Rhonda Fischer
Tepper Reads - March 26, 2021 13:22 - 32 minutesIn this episode, Accelerate lead for Tepper Reads, Matthew Stewart, talks with Rhonda Fischer, Tepper's Chief Operating Officer, about colorism, the depth of Stella's deception, why understanding passing is important to understanding the racial landscape of America today, and so much more.
Tepper Reads Spring 2021 Podcast #3 - Jane McCafferty
Tepper Reads - March 12, 2021 15:32 - 18 minutesIn this episode, Accelerate lead for Tepper Reads, Matthew Stewart, speaks with CMU School of English professor, Jane McCafferty about being seen vs. being unseen, the roles we play in families and society, the costs associated with changing your identity, imposter syndrome, and what all of this...
Is Amazon Evil? Part 2 Professor Ari Lightman & Attorney Michael A. Finio
Heinz Radio - March 09, 2021 08:26 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn the last episode, we spoke to two distinguished professors of economics at Heinz College, doctors Lowell Taylor and Martin Gaynor, to explore the economics of how a company like Amazon could grow so quickly to control half of the US online retail market, what the consequences could be for con...
Tepper Reads Spring 2021 Podcast #2 - Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner
Tepper Reads - February 26, 2021 18:05 - 18 minutesSHIFT Program Managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, dissect this spring's book, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half. They talk about the cinematic qualities of the book, community and place in the book, Bennett's clear and accessible writing style, its ...
Is Information Democratized?
Consequential - February 17, 2021 05:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn the age of the Internet, a lot of information is at our fingertips. But is it accessible, reliable and up-to-date? In the season finale of Consequential, we're discussing information inequality with guests Asia Biega, Stephen Caines, and Myeong Lee.
Is Amazon Evil? Part 1 with Dr. Lowell Taylor & Dr. Martin Gaynor
Heinz Radio - February 15, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week’s episode is the first in a special two-part series investigating the question, “Is Amazon evil?” We take a close look at the e-commerce giant and some of the most alarming warnings that have been raised about their meteoric rise to market dominance. In Part 1, we spoke with two distin...
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