On "Facing Forward," Margaret Brennan talks with Ellevest Founder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck on the push to support women in the workforce, one year after COVID-19's arrival.
Reddit co-founder and Seven Seven Six founder Alexis Ohanian on flexible work-life balance and the push for family leave
March 5, 2021 / 5:50 AM / CBS News
In this episode of
Facing
Forward, Margaret Brennan talks with Alexis Ohanian - founder of Seven Seven Six and co-founder of Reddit, for a look at how COVID-19 has tore open existing social divides on tech, gender, work-life balance and more. Listen to
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On Zoom culture post-COVID pandemic: We re going to start to see way better ways to do this kind of collaboration.the trend of flexible work is very much here to stay.
On preserving Section 230: You re seeing Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something which these days is pretty rare. I do think, so as it extends to Section 230, I think Section 230 is a very, very, very important part of the Internet. And I would not advocate seeing that get destroyed.
Gusto COO Lexi Reese on the push to forgive small business loans amid pandemic
February 19, 2021 / 6:06 AM / CBS News
In this episode of
Facing
Forward, Margaret Brennan talks with Lexi Reese to talk about the state of small business in America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reese is the chief operating officer of Gusto, a platform used by more than 100,000 small businesses to facilitate their payroll, benefits and HR needs. Listen to
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On whether federal aid has helped small businesses: Congress intended the PPP to accomplish two goals: help small businesses cover their near-term operating expenses, which we knew were going through the roof, and two provide an incentive for employers to retain their employees and keep them on payroll. The intent was right. The impact has not been felt well… Tons of businesses, nearly one in four business owners who have not applied for loans in round two, is because they haven t had their first loans forgiven.
NFLPA s DeMaurice Smith on NFL s leadership in fighting COVID-19 on and off the field
February 5, 2021 / 6:01 AM / CBS News
In this episode of
Facing
Forward, Margaret Brennan talks with DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association (NFLPA) Executive Director on navigating a health crisis with one the world s most-watched sports events. After a season of strict COVID protocols and scheduling adjustments, what were some of the lessons the league learned to make it to Super Bowl Sunday COVID-free?
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On the NFL being a leader in testing, fighting COVID-19 with no national strategy: It really became a challenge of- given sort of the overall lack of leadership that we had in the country, can we come up with a leadership model that relied on science to guide our way through this? And, you know, very quickly, we realized that if we tested- mass tested, if we had a robust contact tracing program, if we could convince our guys to wear a mask, change football to- to improve
Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks on treating coronavirus amid threat of new strains
January 28, 2021 / 6:37 PM / CBS News
In this episode of
Facing
Forward, Margaret Brennan talks with David Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world that makes one of the few FDA-approved antibody drugs for COVID-19. In their conversation, Ricks talks about what the drug giant is doing to keep up with the evolving pandemic. Listen to
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On competition in the antibody treatment marketplace: We all want the same thing, we want to erase COVID and given the constraint on supply for monoclonal antibodies, I m glad they re working on this. And it shows the benefit of companies taking different approaches. So we could use Regeneron against that strain in ours against other strains.I think this all just highlights that, that the virus is moving. It s a changing picture. Its pace of change will be exactly consistent with how many people are infec