The Bottom Line Capital & Main

Featured interview with Alan Murray, chief content officer at Time Inc.
 
Marty Goldensohn reports on "Shared Value"—an orientation in which companies look to solve social problems as part of their core business strategy.
 
Natalie Foster comments on much-needed efforts to help caregiver jobs become good jobs.

Hosted by the Drucker Institute’s Rick Wartzman, author of four books and a Fortune contributor, The Bottom Line puts a spotlight on companies that are advancing social progress—and those that aren’t.
 
By engaging in lively conversation with top executives and other experts, Wartzman draws out insights into some of the most pressing issues of our time—all through the lens of what is arguably the most powerful institution in our country: business.
 
The Bottom Line also features regular commentaries by MSNBC contributor and Roosevelt Institute fellow Dorian Warren and the Aspen Institute’s Natalie Foster, as well as reported segments by veteran radio journalists.
 

Episode 1
Featured interview with Unilever CEO Paul Polman Megan Kamerick reports on how companies are using social purpose as a way to attract millennial talent. Dorian Warren explores why employers that stand to lose with Trump’s immigration policy—those in construction and agriculture, for instance—aren’t speaking out more loudly against the administration’s hard line.

Episode 2
Featured interview with IDEO CEO Tim Brown Robin Urevich reports on one design-driven project for social change. Natalie Foster explains how, in an age when union membership is very low, workers are using digital technology to find their collective voice.

Bonus Episode: “The New Blue-Collar Blues”
Featured Interviews with former Treasury Secretary and Alcoa CEO Paul O’Neill and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Lily Bowles, sustainability officer at Aspiration, takes a look at which companies are leaders, and which are laggards, when it comes to worker safety.

Episode 3
Featured interview with Berkhemer Clayton CEO Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire Robin Urevich reports on how a common employer practice—asking job candidates for their salary history—may be holding back women's pay. Dorian Warren explores why food stamps are important not just for people's good health, but also for the economy's.