Episodes (Page 18)
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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
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California's 1996 end to affirmative action in public universities created natural experiment showing how policy instantly reshaped university demographics and long-term outcomes
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Ivan Lozano Ortega discovered a black market in poisonous frogs being poached from Colombian rainforests and sold to collectors worldwide
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Pandemic created enormous natural experiments proving economic theories like the bullwhip effect, where supply chain volatility increases with distance from customers
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Mike Shanks started a moving business in Seattle in 1978 but was cited for operating without a permit by enforcement officers he calls 'the furniture police'
Mike The Mover
The Furniture Police
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Twin studies have been used since the 1800s to answer fundamental questions about how much genetics versus environment shape human behavior and traits
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Tech workers Aashka and Nilanjan face a 60-day deadline to find new jobs after layoffs at Amazon and Google or lose their visas
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New research indicates breakthrough innovations are more likely to come from smaller, younger companies rather than established corporations
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Economist Michael Kremer pioneered randomized controlled trials in development economics by testing school aid effectiveness in Busia, Kenya in the early 1990s
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Sony Pictures licensed Spider-Man film rights from Marvel in the 1990s when Marvel wasn't yet a movie studio, creating long-term complications
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Planet Money created first AI-written episode by feeding AI real research and interviews to generate original scripts
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Planet Money explored AI-generated voice technology that can convincingly imitate specific individuals, raising ethical and economic questions