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Recent episodes from Knowledge@wharton Audio Articles

  • Emerging Technologies, Part 3: New Tools For A Collaborative Environment
    Published: Aug 29, 08
    Part 3 of 3 -- Dr. Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, spoke with Wharton management professor Saikat Chaudhuri about about emerging enterprise equivalents of web 2.0 technologies.
     
  • Emerging Technologies, Part 2: Communicating Across Boundries
    Published: Aug 22, 08
    Part 2 of 3 -- Dr. Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, spoke with Wharton management professor Saikat Chaudhuri about about how TelePresence evolved from a need for high-resolution interaction in today's distributed workplace.
     
  • Emerging Technologies, Part 1: Incubating The Future
    Published: Aug 15, 08
    Part 1 of 3 -- Dr. Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, spoke with Wharton management professor Saikat Chaudhuri about internal venturing at Cisco, and how his group balances entrepreneurial innovation with corporate processes and controls.
     
  • Doha Debacle: What's Next For Global Commerce
    Published: Aug 13, 08
    Progress toward unfettered international commerce stumbled last week with the collapse of the World Trade Organization's Doha talks, a seven-year effort to establish new global trade rules. The lengthy talks were complicated by the rapid emergence of China and India as major economic powers with commercial and strategic interests to protect, and the clout to do so. Many observers say the talks' collapse is a setback for poorer nations, which need access to larger markets in order for their econ
     
  • Bcg-k@w Procurement Report: Part 8: Peformance-based Logistics
    Published: Jul 14, 08
    These days, when the U.S. Department of Defense buys a fighter jet from Lockheed Martin, it doesn't simply pay Lockheed for the physical product. Instead, the government has a "performance-based contract" with the defense supplier, according to Serguei Netessine, professor of operations and information management at Wharton. This contract says, in effect, that the government's reimbursement to Lockheed hinges on the jets' performance -- that is, how often the planes are able to fly. In this inte
     
  • Jeremy Siegel On The Bear Market, Sky-high Oil Prices And Other Bad News
    Published: Jul 9, 08
    The stock market's June swoon has carried into July, with key indicators pointing to a bear market weighed down by rising oil prices, the credit crisis and more bad news from Detroit, as the Big Three auto manufacturers reported substantial losses. Meanwhile, the G-8 gathered in Japan to discuss global warming and the economy, but didn't include the two largest emerging economies -- China and India -- in the talks. Knowledge@Wharton spoke to Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel about these de
     
  • Bcg-k@w Procurement Report: Part 7 -- Managing Commodity Risk
    Published: Jul 7, 08
    Managing commodity risk has emerged as a key issue in today's economy. Consider airlines, which have seen fuel costs rise seven-fold over the last few years, says Bob Tevelson, a partner and managing director at BCG. In this interview, Tevelson says commodity risks are associated with both price volatility and supply availability. More and more companies may wish to turn to hedging strategies to manage commodity risk, he notes, but such strategies can pose risks themselves unless they are proper
     
  • Bcg-k@w Procurement Report: Part 6 -- Subcontracting And Product Quality In China
    Published: Jun 30, 08
    Marshall W. Meyer, professor of management at Wharton, has made many trips to China to research the rapid growth of its economy and the successes and difficulties it has had in growing so quickly. In this interview, Meyer discusses the recent controversy surrounding China's exports of substandard toys and pharmaceuticals to the United States, and the implications for supply-chain management.
     
  • Jeremy Siegel On Ignoring Risks -- Subprime Special Report
    Published: Jun 26, 08
    The subprime crisis "was a wreck that could have been predicted," Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel says in this interview. Siegel is one of seven Wharton professors interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton for a special report on the subprime credit crisis. Please visit knoweldge.wharton.upenn.edu for the entire report.
     
  • Bcg-k@w Procurement Report: Part 5 -- China Sourcing
    Published: Jun 23, 08
    Multinational corporations have been sourcing from China for years, but that doesn't mean that all the questions have been answered about how to engage in procurement activities in the world's fastest-growing economy. In this interview, David Lee, a partner and managing director at BCG, says that plenty of challenges remain. Among them: finding good suppliers that offer products at relatively low costs, and being willing and able to outsource a sufficient volume of one's business to Chinese supp
     
  • Bcg-k@w Procurement Report: Part 4 -- Building Customer-supplier Relationships
    Published: Jun 16, 08
    In the never-ending quest for cost savings, many companies have reduced the number of suppliers they use, consolidated their purchases, and negotiated better prices. So, where can chief procurement officers and other managers now turn for savings? In this interview, Bob Tevelson, a BCG partner and managing director, says firms must segment suppliers to identify those that can deliver what he calls "partnership value" by establishing relationships that move beyond the transactional level. This is
     
  • Microsoft-k@w Open Source Evolution - Part 4
    Published: Jun 15, 08
    Tom Hanrahan, Director of Linux Interoperability at Microsoft, speaks with Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Professor Kevin Werbach about the value of open source development in today's marketplace.
     
  • Microsoft-k@w Open Source Evolution - Part 3
    Published: Jun 14, 08
    Tom Hanrahan, Director of Linux Interoperability at Microsoft, speaks with Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Professor Kevin Werbach about the value of open source development in today's marketplace.
     
  • Microsoft-k@w Open Source Evolution - Part 2
    Published: Jun 13, 08
    Tom Hanrahan, Director of Linux Interoperability at Microsoft, speaks with Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Professor Kevin Werbach about the value of open source development in today's marketplace.
     
  • Microsoft-k@w Open Source Evolution - Part 1
    Published: Jun 12, 08
    Tom Hanrahan, Director of Linux Interoperability at Microsoft, speaks with Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Professor Kevin Werbach about the value of open source development in today's marketplace.