Business Talk With Chalfin

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Kevin Kaiser about value versus price. 
Kevin is Senior Director of the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program and Adjunct Full Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was Professor of Management Practice and on the finance faculty at INSEAD since 1992.
Kevin’s research has focused on private equity, corporate restructuring and financial distress, more recently oriented around corporate governance and management for value creation. In addition to his research in academic and practitioner journals and newspapers, he has co-authored two books, The Blue Line Imperative, with David Young, and Becoming a Top Manager, with Michael Pich and I.J. Schecter.

In honor of the start of baseball season, this week's podcast episode of Business Talk with Chalfin is Baseball: How the National Pastime Paralleled US History with Tony Morante.
 
With a professional journey intertwined with the iconic Yankees franchise, Tony's expertise extends far beyond the confines of the diamond.
As the former head of the Yankee Stadium tours department and a proud inductee into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame for his insightful book, Baseball, the New York Game: How the national pastime paralleled US History, Tony possesses a wealth of baseball knowledge that listeners are sure to find captivating.
 
 

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Lauren Knausenberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of SAIC, a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation’s technology transformation, with annual revenues of $6.9 billion and approximately 24,000 employees.

During this podcast episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Thomas Vladeck, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gradient Metrics and Recast.
 
Recast is built by scientists, for marketers and is committed to using the world’s most advanced techniques and technologies to solve the most important problems in marketing measurement.

For this podcast episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Billy O'Neill and Sean McIlroy, '23-'24 Club Board Co-Presidents about The 2024 Wharton EtA Summit
 
The Wharton ETA Summit brings together MBA students, search fund entrepreneurs, investors, faculty, and other participants in the ETA ecosystem to connect and exchange insights. This year’s conference will feature more networking opportunities and panel topics ranging from all areas of searching, investing, and operating.

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Andrew Brenner, the Head of International Fixed Income at National Alliance Securities, about central bankers and the economy. Andrew is frequently interviewed on Fox Business, Bloomberg, Schwab, and CNBC.
 

With over 35 years of SBA lending experience and the past 9 years focused solely on Mergers and Acquisition lending, Bruce Marks helps buyers finance lower middle market M&A transactions. Bruce works with financial buyers, searchers, and corporate buyers seeking financing for business acquisition transactions. He specializes in transactions with enterprise values between $3 and $8 million dollars and has closed over 1,200 SBA transactions.

For this conversation, Bob talks with Gad Allon, the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
He received his PhD in Management Science from Columbia Business School in New York and holds a Bachelor and Master degree from the Israeli Institute of Technology.
Gad is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling operations and operations strategy. He has also been an innovative leader in many educational technology initiatives. He is the co-founder of ForClass, a platform that enables professors to drive higher student engagement and accountability in their classrooms. Professor Allon regularly consults firms both on service strategy and operations strategy.

During this episode, Bob talks with Jeff Buzen about using insurance to hedge merger and acquisition risk.
Jeff is a Partner in McGill and Partners’ Mergers and Acquisitions group and the leader of the United States Mergers and Acquisition team. Jeff focuses on the structuring, marketing, negotiation and broking of representations and warranties insurance, tax liability insurance and other bespoke contingent liability insurance solutions. 

For this episode, Bob talks with Martin Hershy about small business insurance considerations.
Martin Hershy is the Senior Vice President of Property and Casualty Operations at Lockton Companies. He is a process-oriented and results driven insurance brokerage executive focused on optimizing efficiency through job design, team creation, standardization, system implementation, automation, and business process outsourcing. 
Martin has an MBA from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Temple University- Fox School of Business.