Now, What’s Next?

By Morgan Stanley

What's Now, What’s Next? about?

We’re hearing a lot about supply chains right now. But how did we get here? Journalist Sonari Glinton meets the people who make and transport our stuff to find out how we’re all connected and why that matters. Now, What’s Next? explores the human stories behind the big, sometimes hidden economic forces that shape how we live, what we value and how we make choices.

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Now, What’s Next? episodes:

05.11.2022
Host to Host: A Conversation with Carla Harris
On this special episode, Sonari Glinton sits down with 33-year Wall Street veteran and fellow Morgan Stanley podcast host Carla Harris to discuss their careers, the roles they play in fostering opportunity and their experiences around equity in the economic...
02.02.2022
Trouble Brewing Along the Coffee Supply Chain
How will climate change impact farmers, shippers, distributors, roasters and ultimately the price we pay for a cup of joe?
01.19.2022
Your Pet's Supply Chain Woes
Changes in our eating habits and a surge in pet ownership are making it more difficult and expensive to feed our animals.
01.06.2022
Jobs Go Begging on the Open Road
There’s a serious shortage of truck drivers just when we need them most. Recruitment efforts and technology could change the face of the job for good.
12.16.2021
The Great Kettlebell Shortage
When overseas manufacturing contributed to a kettlebell shortage, onshoring and diversification helped meet demand, but are far from simple solutions.
12.01.2021
Trouble in Toyland
How shipping chaos is wreaking havoc on the busiest buying season, and what some toymakers and toy stores are doing to save the holidays.
11.17.2021
When Just-in-Time is Too Late
How the just-in-time supply chain model left healthcare workers scrambling for PPE, and how supplier relationships and innovations filled the gaps.
11.03.2021
Stuck on the Ever Given
Sonari Glinton begins a season-long series on the supply chain by exploring how different people were impacted by the cargo ship that clogged up the Suez Canal for six days.
07.21.2021
Revaluing the Essential Work of Childcare
The pandemic pushed working mothers to a breaking point. As the U.S. recovers from a “she-cession,” we look at the past and future of childcare.
07.07.2021
Caring for Our Elders
The pandemic has taken a terrible toll on elderly people and their caregivers. Host Sonari Glinton talks to families and caregivers finding new ways to take better care of the elderly.
06.24.2021
Searching for Balance: How and Why We Work
Industrialists like Henry Ford made the 40-hour work week popular in the 1920s. A hundred years later, we look at how it’s working out for us.
06.09.2021
The Re-Education of Higher Learning
How is the pandemic changing higher education? We meet people rethinking online teaching, what students need to succeed and why a campus matters.
05.26.2021
Meet Me at the Mall
Host Sonari Glinton meets people around the world who are reimagining shopping malls, what they mean to a community, and how to build them for a sustainable future.
05.12.2021
Back to the Big Screen
Host Sonari Glinton explores how this past year changed the ways we watch movies, who gets to tell stories, and how box office and production power is shifting.
05.05.2021
Coming Soon: A New Season of Now, What's Next?
After nearly two decades of reporting on culture and the economy, host Sonari Glinton meets people who are looking for solutions to the cracks exposed by the pandemic. From how we care for our children and elderly, to what to...
02.03.2021
Mental Health: The Other Pandemic
With the strain of the pandemic, many of us are admitting that we need help. It’s an opportunity to finally take mental health seriously.
01.20.2021
New Lessons for Remote Education
Students and teachers were forced to adapt to online learning this past year. The pivot gave them a chance to rethink how we teach, and how we learn.
01.06.2021
Recipes for Restaurant Resilience
In the wake of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of restaurants have gone bankrupt. For those holding on, radical new ideas are key to survival.
12.16.2020
Working Together, Remotely
The pandemic splits the workforce into those who can and can’t work remotely. That trend may have a shelf life... and what do we mean by remote anyway?
12.02.2020
Reimagining Travel
The pandemic could deal a one trillion dollar blow to the tourism industry. How does that create opportunities to rethink how and why we travel?
11.18.2020
The City is Dead, Long Live the City
Many forecast doom for the world's cities in the pandemic era, but could this instead be a moment of renewal for the world’s most populous places?
11.13.2020
Introducing... Now, What’s Next?
Making sense of life after the pandemic and the opportunity for change. Hosted by Sonari Glinton.
07.12.2019
Fishing for Data in a Sea of Stars
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. In 1969, Neil Armstrong’s first steps inspired advancements that led to everything from modern kitchen appliances to the Internet. But 50 years later, space exploration isn’t limited to...
06.26.2019
Shopping for the Future
The summer bestseller you read on the way to work, a flower delivery for your sister’s birthday, dinner made fresh from your weekly meal kit— today you can have every part of your day ordered online and delivered to you...
06.20.2019
"Thoughts on the Market" Preview - Mike Wilson: 3 Summer Surprises Investors Could Be Missing
On this preview episode of the new Morgan Stanley podcast "Thoughts on the Market", Chief Investment Officer Mike Wilson says markets are typically savvy on how and when to price news events. But are markets overlooking some potential bad news?
06.05.2019
Living Together, Separately
In the future, we’ll all still need a place to live. But as rents continue to rise and the housing market changes, we might need to adjust our vision of home. Instead of living in a tiny, expensive apartment or...
05.14.2019
Inventing Flavors: A Taste of the Future
Have you ever tasted a habanada pepper? An upstate abundance potato? A Robin’s Koginut squash? These new vegetable breeds, all created by Row Seven Seed Company, are bursting with new flavors that come straight from the earth. But what about...
04.22.2019
Potatoes into Polymers
As you walk down the street, sit in your office, or even make yourself a cup of coffee, take a look around and consider what everything is made of. More often than not, the answer will be: plastic. Our world...
04.08.2019
Darting into the Future
You many have imagined a future of transit where we all blast off to work strapped into personal jetpacks or shuttle our kids to and from school in flying cars. But the future is now, and the innovative transportation systems...
03.18.2019
No Cash On Hand
Rummaging through your pockets in search of change and crumpled bills to pay for your morning coffee may still feel routine, but in some parts of the world, this familiar scene is just a memory. The cashless economy is already...
03.01.2019
Coming Soon: Season 4, Where the Future is Now
Ever wonder what your life might be like 5, 10, 20 years from now? This season, we’re taking you around the globe -- everywhere from Tanzania to Sweden to Japan -- to catch a glimpse of what the future might...
09.26.2018
Climate Change and ESG Research
Season four of the Ideas Podcast will be starting soon, but in the meantime, we’re kicking things off with a bonus episode in honor of Climate Week NYC: an annual summit where scientists, government officials, and CEOs come together to...
07.13.2018
You Can Play Video Games for a Living?
The word “sports” may conjure images of athletes barreling down a football field or burying a three-pointer, but the latest stadium-rousing athletes rarely if ever have to leave their chairs. Welcome to the world of professional video-gaming, or eSports. Around...
06.29.2018
What Does It Mean to Retire Now?
After long careers and years of saving, many of today’s retirees have decided not to set sail on an exotic cruise or spend their days on the golf course. They’re changing what it means to retire by re-entering the workforce—and...
06.22.2018
When Baseball’s Free Agents Struck Out
For the past 40 years, Major League Baseball’s off-season has been dominated by a frenzied bidding war to sign available free agents. But this year, everything changed—the free-agent market froze. For months, almost none of the 200 free agents were...
06.15.2018
What Do Banks, VR, and the Mars Rover Have in Common?
Virtual reality is popping up in almost every industry, doing things that were once unimaginable. How did it grow from the stuff of Sci-Fi into a real world revolution? As with so many things, it began with a language. In this...
06.08.2018
Distraction, Tech’s Frankenstein Moment?
Tech promised us more productivity and better lives via perpetual connectivity. Now, it seems impossible to stop looking at our screens. Can we disrupt distraction? In this episode of the Ideas podcast, we’re diving deep into the solutions-to-digital-distraction market. We talk...
05.31.2018
Can You Buy a Bagel With It?
As our lives become more digital, our money is becoming increasingly digital too. There are more than a thousand cryptocurrencies floating around and new ones seem to launch every day. But is this new form of money, one that only...
05.25.2018
Coming Soon: Season 3, Unexpected Markets
Get ready, the new season of the Morgan Stanley Ideas Podcast is almost here! This time around we’re making sense of a slew of surprising markets: cryptocurrency, virtual reality, baseball free agency, and many more. New episodes start in June!
01.29.2018
What is the Value of Art? | Michelangelo at The Met
On this special episode of the podcast we visit an exciting new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along the way we talk with Art Historian Diana Gisolfi of the Pratt Institute, and with Morgan Stanley’s Ferdousi Islam, an employee...
12.01.2017
Will Electric Cars Take Us Back to the Future?
A rapid shift in the auto industry is coming. Electric vehicles, the long-anticipated cars of the future, are poised to dominate global markets in the next few decades. What impact will they have on how we live our lives? In this...
11.13.2017
Are You Ready for Your Digital Afterlife?
We know to make sure our heirs can access our online bank accounts, but what about the rest of our digital selves? As more and more meaningful parts of our lives enter the virtual world, how do we value the...
10.27.2017
Are Two Bottom Lines Better Than One?
Finding the rare unicorn startup that both disrupts an entire industry and changes the world for the better has been the mission for Nancy Pfund of DBL Partners. These double bottom line businesses are changing the way many are thinking...
10.14.2017
Why Is It Difficult to Give Away $1 Million — and Make It Count?
When businessman Ron Harrington turned his attention and considerable fortune toward philanthropy he, like many others, confronted the issue of how to make the biggest impact. In this episode we explore the challenges of effective philanthropy, hear stories from Bill...
09.29.2017
Why Is It Hard for a Robot to Make Sneakers?
Can consumers get the same quick turnaround on new styles from the sneaker industry that they’ve come to expect for sportswear? This episode, we travel from a sneakerhead haven on New York’s Lower East Side to a state of the...
09.15.2017
Can a Building Save Energy, Money and Maybe Your Job?
Can a building be great for the environment, great for the people inside, great for the bottom line and even great for the economy? In this episode, we visit Seattle's Bullitt Center, one of the greenest commercial buildings in the...
08.18.2017
What Do You Need for a Team to Succeed?
You might assume that building great teams only requires hiring smart people who get along and can work toward a common goal, but that isn’t necessarily what the data tells us. Carnegie Mellon professor Anita Williams-Woolley shares her research on...
07.21.2017
How Can You Avoid Thinking Like the Herd?
Smart decision-making takes more than intelligent people and good data. The theories of behavioral economics inform how businesses, and the rest of us, can try to avoid the irrational responses that may work against our best interests.
07.06.2017
When Software Drives the Car, Who Pays the Insurance?
This week we're focusing on what may be a blind spot in all the excitement over autonomous vehicles: the future of car insurance. How will it work if there are no actual drivers to insure? We get a glimpse of...
06.30.2017
Want Better Profits at Less Risk? Hire More Women
This week we're looking at gender diversity in the workplace. Ashley talks with Jana Rich, an executive recruiter in Silicon Valley, who has spent years working through the thorny issues of changing the gender mix in big firms. Plus, you'll...

What's Now, What’s Next? about?

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Now, What’s Next? episodes:

Host to Host: A Conversation with Carla Harris

Trouble Brewing Along the Coffee Supply Chain

Your Pet's Supply Chain Woes

Jobs Go Begging on the Open Road

The Great Kettlebell Shortage

Trouble in Toyland

When Just-in-Time is Too Late

Stuck on the Ever Given

Revaluing the Essential Work of Childcare

Caring for Our Elders

Searching for Balance: How and Why We Work

The Re-Education of Higher Learning

Meet Me at the Mall

Back to the Big Screen

Coming Soon: A New Season of Now, What's Next?

Mental Health: The Other Pandemic

New Lessons for Remote Education

Recipes for Restaurant Resilience

Working Together, Remotely

Reimagining Travel

The City is Dead, Long Live the City

Introducing... Now, What’s Next?

Fishing for Data in a Sea of Stars

Shopping for the Future

"Thoughts on the Market" Preview - Mike Wilson: 3 Summer Surprises Investors Could Be Missing

Living Together, Separately

Inventing Flavors: A Taste of the Future

Potatoes into Polymers

Darting into the Future

No Cash On Hand

Coming Soon: Season 4, Where the Future is Now

Climate Change and ESG Research

You Can Play Video Games for a Living?

What Does It Mean to Retire Now?

When Baseball’s Free Agents Struck Out

What Do Banks, VR, and the Mars Rover Have in Common?

Distraction, Tech’s Frankenstein Moment?

Can You Buy a Bagel With It?

Coming Soon: Season 3, Unexpected Markets

What is the Value of Art? | Michelangelo at The Met

Will Electric Cars Take Us Back to the Future?

Are You Ready for Your Digital Afterlife?

Are Two Bottom Lines Better Than One?

Why Is It Difficult to Give Away $1 Million — and Make It Count?

Why Is It Hard for a Robot to Make Sneakers?

Can a Building Save Energy, Money and Maybe Your Job?

What Do You Need for a Team to Succeed?

How Can You Avoid Thinking Like the Herd?

When Software Drives the Car, Who Pays the Insurance?

Want Better Profits at Less Risk? Hire More Women