Business Talk With Chalfin

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 Wharton School. 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.

In the next episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob is joined by Rebecca Greenbaum, Professor of Human Resources Management at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, to explore the consequences of a profit-at-all-costs mindset in business. When organizations prioritize financial gain above all else, what happens to workplace ethics, employee well-being, and long-term sustainability? Rebecca, an expert in behavioral ethics and dysfunctional leadership, shares insights from her research on how these factors shape workplace culture, decision-making, and business outcomes. Don’t miss this deep dive into what happens when only profits matter.

On the newest podcast episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Gregg Coodley, MD, author of American Salvation, How Immigrants Made America Great. Gregg Coodley grew up in Philadelphia. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He graduated from the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine in 1985. He did a residency in primary care internal medicine at Cambridge City Hospital in Massachusetts. In 1990 he moved to Portland, Oregon to become first an Assistant and then an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University. He became the Chief, University Section, Division of General Internal Medicine. He won awards for teaching and humanism and published research, particularly on HIV and nutrition. In 1997 he left the University to found the Fanno Creek Clinic, an independent primary care clinic in Southwest Portland. The Clinic now includes almost twenty physicians and recently saw its 50,000th patient. The Clinic received the Small Business of the Year award in Portland and pioneered innovations such as being the first medical clinic in Oregon to add solar power. Coodley continues a busy primary care practice while managing the Clinic.

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Andy Kapryn, Partner and Investments Leader for Corient. Previously, Andy was a Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at legacy firm RegentAtlantic and has more than 15 years of experience in investment research and portfolio construction. Andy focuses his research on public markets investments and touches on all major asset categories—fixed income, equities and alternative strategies. Andy provides regular commentary for financial news media and appears on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance and Fox Business News. His analysis and commentary have been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times and other major publications. Andy graduated with a BA in Economics and Political Science from Drew University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society New York.

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks to Dane Czaplicki, CEO of Members Wealth LLC. Dane co-founded Members’ Wealth with a team of exceptional individuals. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services including investment analysis, portfolio construction, operations, service, trading, sales, management, and leadership.