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Erika Soderstrom

"Marketplace Morning Report" Associate Producer

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Erika works with a group of extraordinary producers to chase business and economic stories heard on “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Latest Stories (264)

Genetically modified trees arrive in U.S. forests

The idea is that they'll be able to pull more carbon dioxide from the air than regular trees.
Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

Reshaping business school with "management as a calling"

University of Michigan Professor Andrew Hoffman wants students "to both lead successful organizations and make society better."
The "Management as a Calling" program at the University of Michigan is a retreat to the woods to help students interrogate what they want to use business school education for.
Jeff Karoub

How effective have sanctions on Russia been?

A forthcoming paper on Russia's economic sanctions finds they could go further by targeting oligarchs' wealth managers.
A new research paper on the topic suggests that sanctioning not oligarchs but their wealth managers would actually be even more effective.
Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

Raising the curtain on theater employment

How a children’s theater company is ensuring the show will go on after pandemic.
A stage production of Cinderella plays at the Minnesota-based Children's Theatre Company. Kimberly Motes, head of the theater, says it is still recovering from pandemic shutdowns that saw many employees furloughed.
(David Rubene/Children's Theatre Company)

What one egg producer says about how the industry is doing

Sam Krouse, co-CEO of MPS Egg Farms, says wholesale prices are down as farms recover from avian flu and consumer demand eases.
Sam Krouse, co-head of MPS Egg Farms, says the industry is recovering well from a widespread outbreak of avian flu that caused prices to skyrocket.
David Silverman/Getty Images

A new moon race is underway

And this it's private companies that are racing to get to the moon first.
Along with NASA, there are a bunch of organizations that want to send stuff to the moon. And now there are companies willing to take things there.
Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Why colleges may soon have more midcareer students

Chris Farrell discusses college programs that may portend a return to class for older workers, making the schools "centers for lifelong learning."
Pilot programs for experienced workers at Harvard, Notre Dame and the University of Texas at Austin offer a glimpse at the possible future of continuing education.
Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images

Financial losses from romance scams add up

Reported romance scam losses in 2022 were $1.3 billion, but that's likely an undercount.
Many online scammers are running multiple cons at once, including romance scams.
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Is remote work here to stay?

Remote work doesn’t just help employees, it can benefit companies too.
Marketplace's Chris Farrell discusses the future of work and who stands to benefit the most from it.
Ilona Titova via Getty Images

Jury sides with Hermès in the first NFT trademark trial  

A luxury goods company went up against a digital artist. The artist lost.
Art critic Blake Gopnik explains why he thinks the jury came to the wrong conclusion.
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