Business (Audio)

A real live rocket scientist turned entrepreneur, Neal Bloom is the talent advisor for Hired.com, a site that connects companies with technical talent.

  Series: "The Career Channel" [Show ID: 32426]

Andy Kieatiwong shares his journey from student to CEO. As the founder and CEO of the Additive Rocket Corporation, he leads a team that leverages 3D metal printing to create reliable and affordable propulsion solutions for space exploration. He speaks with a group of high school seniors about the field of aerospace engineering as well as how to leverage your college experience to find your ideal career. Series: "The Career Channel" [Show ID: 32397]

Don Howard, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how Irvine’s strategic investments are creating opportunity across California, followed by a panel of employers leading solutions to connect youth and young adults in successful career paths. Panelists include: Alex Castellanos, HR Manager, SeaWorld San Diego, Susie Harborth, Co-Founder, General Partner & CFO, BioLabs, and Mitch Mitchell, VP of State Governmental Affairs and External Affairs, San Diego Gas & Electric. Series: "The Career Channel" [Show ID: 32399]

How do we create inclusive communities that support job opportunities for young people entering the working world? Andy Hall, VP and Chief Program Officer of San Diego Workforce Partnership shares results from the San Diego opportunity youth research report and unveils a regional “BHAG” (big, hairy, audacious goal) for reducing and preventing youth disconnection in San Diego County by the end of 2020. Series: "The Career Channel" [Show ID: 32248]

Blending climate science with economic modeling, Emilie Mazzacurati offers clients strategic advice on how to protect local communities by integrating climate risk into business decisions. Mazzacurati, an alumna of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, talks with fellow alumnus Jonathan Stein how she founded her company, Four Twenty Seven Climate Solutions, to build climate resilience through social innovation.

Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Show ID: 32257]

Finding your path to stability and success can be challenging. Young adults from around San Diego county share their stories of growing up and finding their place in the workforce and the world. Leaders of some of San Diego’s largest public systems respond. Series: "The Career Channel" [Show ID: 32398]

The 2017 Ignite@UC San Diego Conference for Innovators and Entrepreneurs features a mindfulness exercise by Anthony Zolezzi of Pegasus Capital Advisors; a pep talk on San Diego’s future from Mike Krenn of the San Diego Venture Group; and a “fireside chat” with Jon Belmonte of Spoutable and Scot Chisholm of Classy on how to recognize and act on opportunities to build companies that will contribute to the public good.

Series: "The Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 32114]

Serial entrepreneur and newly elected San Diego City Councilmember Barbara Bry leads a discussion on the future of the region’s innovation economy with panelists Greg McKee, CEO of CONNECT; Albert Pisano, dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego; John Cabeca of the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Paul Roben, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Innovation and Commercialization at UC San Diego; and Nicole Truitt, the founder of Metamer Materials. This program is presented as part of the 2017 Ignite@UC San Diego Conference for Innovators and Entrepreneurs.

Series: "The Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 32115]

Economist Robert Reich, the Clinton-era Labor Secretary and prominent Democratic pundit, gives a rousing talk on how the intersection of politics and economics led to the rise of Donald Trump and describes the concerns he shares with Republicans who fear that Trump’s way of governing is harming American institutions. Reich is the featured speaker at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy’s Board of Advisors Dinner held in March 2017.

Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 32116]

Colleges and universities of all types educate and train a diverse workforce. Michael Kirst and Richard Scott explore the mismatch between higher education and the Bay Area economy. The two developed under different conditions, with different pressures, for different purposes and so it is not surprising that they differ substantially in their values, norms, and pace of change. Series: "Center for Studies in Higher Education" [Show ID: 32126]