Wharton Executive Education Podcast

Wharton Executive Education Podcast

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Wharton Executive Education Podcast episodes

  • How Integrity, Intelligence and Intent guides President, TedX Speaker and Author Abhishek Agarwal

    Abhishek Agarwal is the President of the Judge Group India, a TedX speaker and the author of the book The 3I Effect. In this episode we dive into how Mr. Agarwal went from starting his career in India to now being able to work on some of the most innovative projects for Fortune 500 companies.


    TedX Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=MXsID_wdT6c&t=2s

    LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/abhishekhapur/

    The 3I Effect Book: agarwalabhishek.com

    33 min
  • Investing in private companies with Marc Radasky

    Marc Radasky is Managing Partner of Clarity Capital. The company provides frictionless capital to private companies that want to grow. There are multiple criteria that Marc will look at when it comes to making investment decision and, in this episode, we dive into what is important.

    41 min
  • Bridging the divide, in service to kids mental health with Naren Balasubramaniam

    Naren Balasubramaniam is a healthcare executive and entrepreneur with 23 years of expertise leading and supporting business and service delivery transformations, strategy and business development, growth, and product development across multiple functional domains in health systems across the country. His passion centers around creating and sustaining societal good and public benefit by creating commercially viable products and solutions. Specifically, he is now looking at solutions for children struggling with mental health.

    34 min
  • How everyone can learn to implement AI and Machine Learning with Brad Flaugher

    Brad Flaugher has been working on AI projects since 2008 and

    is now a AI and Machine Learning Educator. He authored the book AI Harmony and is an Advisor to the seed capital fund NextFab Ventures where he gets into the technical diligence of AI startups.

     

    Brad shares how ChatGPT and AI are already at a place where

    we should not be waiting for the user experience to get better. The time to implement AI is now and those that do not will get beat by their competition. There are some basic things people will need to learn in order to benefit from the powers that AI has to offer. We get into the resources that are available to all of us in order to benefit from the magic that AI has to offer.

     

    Some resources Brad recommends are:

    The AI Harmony Book by Brad Flaugher

    The bootcamp he offers on bradflaugher.com

    Rewired – Book by McKinsey

    oneusefulthing.org

    47 min
  • How to move from corporate life to starting a global consulting firm with Manuel Gallegos

    Manuel Gallegos is the Managing Partner of MG Global Consulting Group. Manuel now lives in Argentina but previously had a corporate career in finance in New York. In New York, he would live and breath finance and he took his expertise to start his own Consulting Company. MG Global Consulting does consulting in M&A and project management for several companies. This conversation dives into the path Manuel took to start his own Global Consulting firm.

    The company website is www.mg-globalconsulting.com

    37 min
  • How Generative AI can create a billion-dollar company with only 1 employee featuring Davinder Kohli

    Davinder has a track record of transforming Fortune 500 and midsize organizations across healthcare, education, financial, and insurance industries to achieve scalability and growth. He has broad multi-industry experience in digital strategy, product innovation, and advanced analytics to grow the customer base, increase customer lifetime value, and achieve operational excellence. His experience has allowed him to see what companies are working on and what might be coming next. In this episode we will talk about purpose built companies and how companies in the future might reach a billion valuation with only 1 employee as a result of the assistance of generative AI.


    Davinder Kohli is currently Cief Digital Officer at Creospan Inc and Board Member of the Sikh Human Development Foundation Inc. Prior to this he was also a co-founder Xent Studios. At Xent he launched an omnichannel SaaS retail platform to help home improvement brick-and-mortar retailers increase customer conversation and reduce the sales cycle by showcasing products in virtual spaces using an in-store HTC VR station. Xent was nvited to the World Economic Forum 2018, Tianjin, China, to discuss how VR reshapes brick-and-mortar retailers.


    33 min
  • From a Successful Interventional Spine Physician to Starting and Running a Hedge Fund: A Journey with Dr. Anil Sharma, MD

    Dr. Anil Sharma has performed over 80,00 spinal procedures and changed the lives of many people. His brilliance however does not stop at medical procedures. He has a gift when it comes to multiple choice testing as he sees things differently. He discovered this gift at a young age and was able to make the most of it. After growing his medical practice in New Jersey and New York with the Spine & Pain Centers, he took some of his proceeds and started the hedge fund "Third Eye Capital Management". So how does a Spinal Doctor also end up being a hedge fund manager? Check out this episode and find out.

    34 min
  • Working on complex transformation projects India, Japan, and USA with Deepak Rana

    Deepak Rana grew up in India and moved around India in his youth. When he later moved to Tokyo, Japan, he was entrenched in a culture that was very respectful and placed value on details. Deepak, worked on various complex transformation projects for institutions like the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and others. When moving to the United States, Deepak recognized how the culture within a country can vary which helped him with his post-merger integration work. Deepak has 21+ years of experience of successfully securing and leading complex, large-scale, multiyear, multimillion dollar (over $90 million budget) “global business transformation programs” enabled by SAP S/4HANA & ECC, Ariba, Coupa, Curam, and other ERPs.

    34 min
  • The path to working at some of the most prominent institutions in the world with Michael Wolf

    Michael Wolf served at the U.S. Navy for 14 years and ultimately ended up being a Lieutenant Commander, Senior Reginal Flight Surgeon. After his tenure at the U.S Navy he was recruited by the Mayo Clinic to be a Consultant and Assistant Professor of Medicine.

    The Department of Defense is the executive branch of the US federal government and one of the largest global employers. While at the U.S. Navy, Michael published a white paper which ended up persuading the Director of the Defense Health Agency and U.S. Navy Surgeon General to change and improve the health insurance policy for 2.15 million Department of Defense beneficiaries.

    The Mayo Clinic is one of the most renowned medical institutions in the world attracting people from all over the world that are looking for an expert opinion when it comes to medical care. Michael spends a lot of time on complex projects for the institutions he works on tackling projects that are in the billions of dollars.

    37 min

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