The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: July 2, 2014) – How fair is our criminal and civil justice system to people of color and the poor? Do minority groups in Utah have access to equal representation to navigate the legal system in court? The 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act offers an…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: July 1, 2014) – Jana Francis is the Co-Founder and President of the daily deals site, Steals.com. Francis started her company in 2008 with just 160 email addresses and $5,000 dollars from her personal Amex card. Since then, Steals.com has grown to over $15 million dollars a year in revenue,…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: June 25, 2014) – Dr. Juliet Schor is professor of sociology at Boston College, and she taught economics at Harvard University for 17 years. She has published several best selling books about work practices, wellbeing, and the environment including, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1992),…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: June 24, 2014) – Interview with Eric Morgan, CEO of AtTask. Morgan describes the cloud-based work-management platform that AtTask provides. He says their online program gives corporate teams a single, central place to manage and control the chaos of a large organization’s work. He talks about AtTask’s goal to push…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: June 18, 2014) – Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, have appeared on the digital landscape promising to make education more efficient, convenient, and cheaper. Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offer free education through MOOCs, although they still struggle to find an effective business model. Needless…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: June 11, 2014) – In recent years different speakers at the Hinckley Institute have contributed to a discourse on current U.S. national security, the justification or morality of the U.S. drone policy, and the long-term consequences of American security actions. This program highlights some of the complex moral…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: June 10, 2014) – Rick Alden, Founder and Director of Skullcandy, continues his conversation with host Doug Wells, sharing how Skullcandy re-energized the concept of earbuds. Alden talks about his decision to hire his father – who had helped popularize snowboarding – to help him manage Skullcandy’s manufacturing operations in…
Producer Ross Chambless reports on Governor Herbert’s 2014 Energy Summit and his response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to cut carbon pollution from power plants by 2030. Meanwhile environmentalists criticized Utah’s slow embrace of renewable technologies and the governor’s energy policy, and energy policy expert Ted Norhaus said the proposed regulations simply codify a…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: June 4, 2014) – Eileen Appelbaum is a Senior Research Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington D.C., and Visiting Professor in the Management Department, University of Leicester, UK. This past March she co-authored Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street. Appelbaum’s…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: May 27, 2014) – Lance Clark is the President and CEO of Spillman Technologies, based in Salt Lake City. Spillman Technologies began in 1982 as a Utah State University computer science class project. The company has since come to serve over 1,000 clients in 40 states, and is ranked among…
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