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Business professor Daniel Beunza spent years as an observer on the trading floors of Wall Street, and documents his journey in his award-winning book Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room. On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way?, Dr. Beunza shares his surprising findings about ethics, morality, and leadership in these highly intense and competitive settings, and how his ethnographic method of “living with the natives” and “going with surprises” can inform how we understand organizations and behaviors.

On this third episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partners Tim McCrystal and Adrianne Ortega discuss recent trends in partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit entities, as well as important business, structural, and legal issues for nonprofit/for-profit joint ventures. 

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series A Word for Our Sponsors, hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Ropes & Gray tax partner Kendi Ozmon as well as tax counsel Gil Ghatan to discuss a topic of increasing interest among fund sponsors: establishing a vehicle for implementing their philanthropic and charitable giving goals. 

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way?, Shannon Kirk returns to the podcast to share “Better Ways” from multiple perspectives: As a thought leader on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in litigation and internal investigations, she highlights the importance of metrics as evidence of effectiveness; and as an award-winning author and lawyer, she explains why words and precision matter.

Following up on Ropes & Gray’s recent article in Institutional Real Estate Americas, on this podcast, real estate and investment transactions partner David Kaye and counsel Pete Scherer discuss the emerging trend of institutional real estate investors looking beyond traditional real estate joint ventures to create expanded relationships with their operating partners, often through the use of hybrid investment structures.

On this second episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Jenn Romig discusses five key strategies to set up a health care joint venture for success. He talks about the important and everchanging regulatory requirements around these transactions, drafting tips, and key actions that stakeholders, principals, and businesspeople can take to ensure the success of their joint ventures.

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way?, co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen interview Nitish Upadhyaya, director of behavioral insights at R&G Insights Lab. Nitish is a lawyer and behavioral scientist whose research has focused on how humans interact with bots. Based on Nitish’s findings, the three discuss how technology might complement human strengths in the ethics and compliance world. They also touch on human-centered design and Nitish’s revolutionary way of thinking about effective training programs.

Introducing A Word for Our Sponsors, a new podcast series brought to you by the sponsor solutions group at Ropes & Gray. The podcast spotlights private equity leaders and the issues that matter most to our sponsor clients. On this first episode, hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Kase Jubboori, deputy general counsel and co-head of tax at Bain Capital, for a wide-ranging conversation on how Kase approaches important internal issues at Bain, and what advice he’s seeking from outside counsel in doing so.

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio, data, privacy & cybersecurity co-lead Rohan Massey sits down with technology, media & telecommunications co-lead Ed Black to discuss how he goes into crisis mode when his clients are hit with a ransomware attack and how he works in tandem with forensics experts, communications and crisis response teams to understand the scope of the breach and its impact on clients.

We are pleased to introduce a new Ropes & Gray podcast series, Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures. With increased regulatory scrutiny by state and federal regulators of mergers and acquisitions in the health care industry, joint ventures present a valuable alternative to traditional acquisition strategies for expansion and diversification of services, access to capital, and deployment of technological, business, and management resources. The series will examine recent trends, new developments, lessons learned and best practices for various types of joint ventures.

On this opening episode, health care partner Stephanie Webster moderates a discussion with health care partners Adrianne Ortega and Jenn Romig on why joint ventures have become increasingly popular in the health care industry as well as current trends in joint ventures.