Episodes (Page 16)
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The Phillips Curve assumes an inflation-unemployment tradeoff, but recent inflation decline has occurred without significant job losses
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Photographer Lynn Goldsmith's 1981 Prince portrait was used by Andy Warhol for a Vanity Fair cover with proper credit and payment
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Indian economist Raghunath Mashelkar discovered turmeric wound-healing patent filed by U.S. scientists despite being traditional Indian medicine
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Planet Money Summer School 2023 graduation where students earn MBA degrees and participate in a pitch competition
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Hollywood studio lots have neutral gates designed for non-striking workers, allowing some employees to bypass picket lines
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Effective negotiation requires understanding BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement) to know when to stand firm or walk away
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The U.S. is the only wealthy nation that doesn't guarantee paid vacation, unlike the EU and other developed countries
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Operations management focuses on planning and backup planning to navigate inevitable bottlenecks in business processes
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Supreme Court struck down Biden's loan forgiveness plan, but the SAVE income-driven repayment plan remains alive and powerful
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The innovator's dilemma describes how successful companies face pressure to abandon existing advantages for disruptive new technology
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Three economic experts debate competing scenarios for the U.S. economy: soft landing, hard landing, or failure to control inflation
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Effective marketing requires a precision-crafted pitch showing how a product solves customer needs or creates new ones
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Medical debt in America totals $195 billion, but medical bills can often be negotiated or reduced rather than paid in full
Life Kit
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Behavioral scientists Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino face accusations that data in their famous honesty research may have been fabricated
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Accounting is introduced as a foundational MBA subject that reveals revolutionary ways to think about business and balance
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Planet Money launches 'Econ Paper Club' segment to share fascinating, clever economics research with listeners
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Summer School episode 2 focuses on competition strategy when entering crowded markets with new business ideas
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Online contracts are legally enforceable even when never explicitly signed, hidden in links and terms users rarely read
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Planet Money Summer School season 4 launches with MBA-level business education covering entrepreneurial fundamentals
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Economist Emi Nakamura pioneers empirical macroeconomics to answer big unsolved questions about growth, recession length, and inflation control