Succulent Smuggling Consequences

Succulent Smuggling Consequences

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 911 , Segment 5

Episode: Kavanaugh Confirmation, Drawn Together, Succulent Smuggling

  • Oct 1, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 17:40 mins

Guest: Patrick Foy, Captain of Regulations, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Law Enforcement Division There’s a lucrative black market in China and Korea for succulent plants that grow well in the American West. Smugglers in California have been caught with 10s of thousands of plants worth millions of dollars. This is not exactly how to fix the trade imbalance.

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How Company Brands Navigate Controversy

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Guest: Timothy Calkins, Clinical Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Author, “How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation” Electric car maker Tesla and its controversial CEO Elon Musk settled a lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the weekend. Musk was accused of securities fraud for misleading tweets about Tesla’s finances that affected its stock price. Musk and Tesla will each pay $20 million in fines and Musk will relinquish his role as the company’s board chairman, but he gets to stay on as CEO. What would Tesla be without Musk anyway? For better or worse, carmaker’s brand is wrapped up in Musk’s outspoken, often outlandish, identity.

Guest: Timothy Calkins, Clinical Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Author, “How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation” Electric car maker Tesla and its controversial CEO Elon Musk settled a lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the weekend. Musk was accused of securities fraud for misleading tweets about Tesla’s finances that affected its stock price. Musk and Tesla will each pay $20 million in fines and Musk will relinquish his role as the company’s board chairman, but he gets to stay on as CEO. What would Tesla be without Musk anyway? For better or worse, carmaker’s brand is wrapped up in Musk’s outspoken, often outlandish, identity.