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Wharton Global High School Investment Competition
The Wharton Global High School Investment Competition is a free, experiential investment challenge for high school students (9th to 12th grade) and teachers. Students work in teams of four to seven, guided by a teacher as their advisor, and have access to an online stock market simulator. Together, they learn about strategy-building, teamwork, communication, risk, diversification, company and industry analysis, and many other aspects of investing.

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Wharton Global Youth produces original content introducing high school students and educators to the broad scope of business and finance education. Explore hundreds of educational articles featuring Wharton analysis, discover enterprising teen entrepreneurs on our monthly Future of the Business World Podcast, and more.

9 Questions for Wharton’s Lori Rosenkopf about Her Book, Unstoppable Entrepreneurs
When trailblazers like Lori Rosenkopf, the vice dean of entrepreneurship and a professor of management at the Wharton School, have led robust 30-year careers and engaged with some 20,000 students, it’s hard to envision what might be next. That’s why hearing Dr. Rosenkopf (pictured above) describe the publication of her...
Learning to Use Financial Accounting Numbers Strategically
Catherine Schrand, a professor of accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, gets what you really think of her. “I know the reputation of accounting,” she told a group of high school students visiting Wharton’s campus during our summer Cross-program lecture series. “I know that we are...
Learning Day Is All Light and TastyKakes for this Year’s Investment Competitors
Make no mistake: the high school kids jogging down the center of the Wharton School’s Locust Walk on Friday, April 25 around 10:30 a.m. were not warming up for the Penn Relays. You may have seen them stop by Ben on the Bench for a quick photo in the sun,...Our annual report highlights the Wharton Global Youth team’s achievements in a year’s time. Discover Global Youth’s mission-driven work, partnerships, markets and vision as we deliver quality business-education opportunities to high school students and educators.
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