Wharton Global Youth Program

How Will You Use Technology to Shape Our Future?

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When generative AI burst onto the scene a few years ago and tools like ChatGPT began to fill essay pages at the touch of a button, first we were dazzled – and then we were worried. What would this mean for the future of critical thinking? When were we allowed…Read More

A Theater Kid Champions the Arts Where They Are Needed Most

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As we hit our 56th episode, we love firsts on the Future of the Business World podcast. This month, we get to explore the business of theater and the arts. Wharton Global Youth student Alex Felberbaum shares how his transformative love of Broadway and acting inspired his non-profit, the SAID…Read More

Future Business Leaders: Are You Ready to Embrace Your Fresh-Start Moment?

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Summer 2025 is more than a chance to leave that backpack – textbooks sprawled – languishing for a few months on the floor. It’s an opportunity to change and grow. When Angel R., a senior at Southwest Miami Senior High School in Florida, U.S., began exploring Wharton Global Youth summer…Read 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…Read More

Learning to Use Financial Accounting Numbers Strategically

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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…Read More

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,…Read More

BAM Investing from Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, Wins the 2025 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition

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The Wharton School’s legendary competitive spirit was popping with high school energy on Saturday, April 26, 2025. While track-and-field athletes from across the country descended on the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the annual Penn Relays, 64 future financiers from the U.S., India and Canada convened a…Read More

Lucio Hightower-Rojas Wants to Solve Students’ Scholarship Struggles

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As a high school senior, Lucio Hightower-Rojas (pictured above) is no stranger to tests, quizzes, essays and research. After all, he’s spent countless hours in his Los Angeles, California, high school putting quality time into all of the work. But when he began a year or so ago to search…Read More

Author John Green Stops By the Wharton School to Talk about Life, Creativity and Compassion

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What’s your favorite novel by author and YouTuber John Green? Looking for Alaska? Turtles All the Way Down? An Abundance of Katherines? Or maybe The Fault in Our Stars, one of the best-selling books ever? Green’s books, with more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, often feature young adult…Read More

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