Guests Betty-Sue Flowers Host Michelle Harven Writing and Production Written by Keith Schumann with input from Felicia Davis, Nancy McGaw, Miguel Padró, and the Business & Society Team. Recorded by Ben Eyler, Amina Akhtar, and Rachel Wheeler and edited by Jesse Krinsky. The Business & Society team wishes to thank the audio technicians and everyone …

Guests Matthew Tadeschi Hora, Lynn Perry Wooten, Pierre Gentin Host Michelle Harven Writing and Production Written by Keith Schumann with input from T.A. Frank, Miguel Padró, Felicia Davis, and the Business & Society Team. Recorded by Ben Eyler and Amina Akhtar and edited by Jesse Krinsky. The Business & Society team wishes to thank the audio techn…

Guests Maureen Conway, Rana Foroohar, Adam Winkler Host Michelle Harven Writing and Production Written by Keith Schumann with input from T.A. Frank, Miguel Padró, Felicia Davis, and the Business & Society Team. Recorded by Ben Eyler and edited by Jesse Krinsky. The Business & Society team wishes to thank the audio technicians and everyone involved …

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Episode Summary September 11th, 2001, was a day of horror that changed our sense of self and our place in the world. It also changed the US economy, shaping everything from government policy to how businesses operate. This episode explores the decades-long aftershock of that day, alongside those of another day in 2001: December 11th, when China joi…

In most tellings, the 2000 tech crash is a straightforward story: the music stopped and unprofitable dot-com companies failed, paving the way for the more innovative companies of the Web 2.0 era. This episode explores a very different view of the tech crash: as a key turning point where the idealism of early web entrepreneurs gave way to new busine…

In 2019, a global trade war fueled by populist nationalism has raised fears of recession and is forcing businesses to re-think decades-long supply chains. If businesses want to understand this backlash to globalization, they first need to understand it’s been decades in the making. Academics and protesters warned of it in the nineties, culminating …

Launching soon, the Business 20/20 podcast is a series that explores the changing relationship between business and society from 1999 to today. Each episode unpacks a key event—from the Seattle WTO protests to the global financial crisis and beyond—to find insights for the future. Produced by the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program and hos…