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The Wharton Global Youth business journal introduces high school students to business and finance education. Articles are written for a high school reader and explore concepts and trends with insight from Wharton School professors and other members of the Wharton community. Student readers can access business terms linked to our video glossary that provide an extra layer of learning from world-class Wharton faculty. Educators can take advantage of Conversation Starters at the end of each article, as well as easy assignability through a Google Classroom button.

He’s got a passion for smoked paprika and buffalo wings and a fighting spirit that was shaped growing up in Camden, N.J. Food Network fans know him as Big Daddy -- a.k.a. Aaron McCargo, Jr., winner of "The Next Food Network Star" reality TV show in 2008. The star of "Big Daddy’s House" cooking show talks with Knowledge@Wharton High School about big appetites and even bigger career goals on and off camera.…

The Flavor of Bold: Aaron McCargo, Jr. Dishes about Life Before and After “The Next Food Network Star”

While most high schoolers were spending their summer of 2008 as camp counselors, lifeguards and job interns, Jonathan Heckman was preparing for his future in a different hands-on way -- by creating his own aviation-themed blog. Since then, Heckman’s online reflections have quite literally taken flight, rooted in a passion that he is now pursuing professionally at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fl, where he is working on a bachelor of science degree in business administration with a dual major in air transportation and management. In this personal essay, Heckman, who is 20, talks hits, posts, opinions and the life of a young blogger. …

Confessions of a Teenage Aviation Blogger

Seth Goldman is raising awareness one tea leaf at a time. As president of Honest Tea, the company he started with a Yale professor, he has found a way to sell a healthier cold tea beverage and quench his thirst for social and environmental change. Goldman travels the world, visiting communities where his company’s organic teas are harvested and learning about the cultures that help grow his business. His career as an entrepreneur began when he was a kid selling used golf balls and lemonade. He now channels that energy into an Honest business with a passionate mission.…

Seth Goldman of Honest Tea: The ‘Perfect Ingredient’ for Social Impact

Powerhouse companies like GE invest in tomorrow’s leaders by running extensive internal training programs to groom employees to become corporate superstars. An area of enormous strength for GE is the way the company identifies and builds leaders, as the large number of CEOs who once worked for GE testifies. Knowledge@Wharton talked with Susan Peters, GE’s chief learning officer, about GE and leadership. …

How GE Builds Global Leaders: A Conversation with Chief Learning Officer Susan Peters

Teenager Hannah Salwen lived with her family in an Atlanta mansion – she even had an elevator that led to her room. A lot can change in a few years. Salwen and her family decided to sell their home, move into a house worth half the value and donate the rest of the sales price to The Hunger Project and its work to end poverty in Ghana, Africa. They tell their story in the book, "The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back." Wharton management professor Stewart Friedman talked with Hannah, now a high school junior, and her dad, Kevin Salwen, about their story of downsizing with a difference. …

Doing Good, with the Power of Half

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