How The Affirmative Action Ruling Changes Corporate America
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🗓️ 1 July 2023
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers take on the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action. They also talk about the (very good!) marketing campaign behind the upcoming Barbie movie, and the (less good) influencer campaign for SHEIN.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the |
| 0:14.1 | week I'm Felix Sam and I'm here with Emily Peck, both of us work for Axios. |
| 0:19.7 | We are joined with the New York Timesary own, well it's not really, it's just one of her |
| 0:24.6 | many fiddles, Elizabeth Spires. Hello. We are going to talk about the big Supreme Court case |
| 0:31.9 | that was decided this week, or at least one of them, the one about affirmative action, what it |
| 0:37.7 | means for corporations, but honestly the heart of this show is about marketing. We're going to talk |
| 0:44.1 | about influencer marketing, she in and Bud Light, we're going to talk about mega marketing at |
| 0:49.8 | Mattel with the Barbie movie, and we're going to talk about whether we're going to watch Barbie |
| 0:56.4 | and Offenheimer on the same day and if so, which one comes first. That is all coming up. We have a |
| 1:02.0 | Slate Plus segment on Vanna White, who is earning $3 million a year and wants more. So we'll talk |
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| 2:17.4 | So yeah, let's start with this affirmative action ruling from the Supreme Court. And I was |
| 2:24.7 | thinking this being the corporate arm of the Slate podcast empire that we could concentrate |
| 2:32.4 | on what this means for business. I think it's pretty clear what it means for selective |
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