College, Careers & Job Skills

College students often live for their junior year abroad – a chance to explore new cultures, meet faraway friends and delight in what is, for many, their first real adventure in a completely different time zone. University of Pennsylvania student Leigh Silver boarded a plane for London last fall with all those expectations, only to soon find out that she “just didn’t fit in.” Silver was able to look beyond her discontent to discover a whole new career path.…

The World’s a Stage: An Undergrad’s Dreary London Adventure Sparks New Possibilities

It is that time of year again: Cars laden with college-bound kids and all their stuff parked curbside at the freshman dorms, and throngs of wide-eyed newcomers exploring campus during orientation. Meanwhile, many college freshmen take on yet another role: student borrower. An increasing number of students are taking out loans to pay for their college education – money they will have to pay back once they graduate, or even if they don’t. Are you ready to be a responsible borrower?…

Big Investment: The Financial Impact of Student Loans

The retailer Brooks Brothers has long been associated with tailored, classic clothes for the workplace. What better place to find tips to help you dress for success. Lindsay Taylor Hall, a rising senior at Central High School in Philadelphia, Pa., and a participant in the Knowledge@Wharton High School Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership program at Wharton in the summer of 2011, sat down with local store manager Maria Mariani to talk classic looks, corporate casual and why every wardrobe should have a crisp shirt.…

Dress for Success: Crisp Shirts and the Truth About Corporate Casual

If you feel the pressure, you are not alone. High school students around the world are grappling with the question: "What do I want to do with my life?" One of the best ways to find out is to ask lots of questions. Howard Brown, credit analyst with TD Bank, recently offered some answers about choosing a career to high school students in the KWHS summer program. "Don't just have a dream," urged Brown. "Become organized. Write it down!"…

Finding the Right Career Takes Time — and an Ability to Recognize Your Strengths

The corporate world has its own buzzwords, terms that express how businesses operate – with “synergies” and “paradigms.” “Diversity” used to be the popular catchphrase; companies scrambled to hire employees from varied backgrounds and ethnicities so they would appear diverse. Today, corporations are more committed to being diverse and inclusive, investing millions of dollars a year in understanding and involving people of different ethnicities, ages, genders and choices in their ranks. These companies realize that a range of perspectives can fuel creativity and strengthen business. …

Embracing Differences: Companies Tap the Richness of Diversity

Sourav Bose, a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, majored in biology and crisis management. As a junior in high school, Bose founded a non-profit agency that sponsors an HIV education center in India and complemented his work abroad by volunteering as an emergency medical technician and firefighter with his local fire department. He has continued his interest in disaster management, as well as researching emergent medical care in Guatemala. In an interview with classmate Mindy Zhang, Bose talked to Knowledge@Wharton High School about the intersection of business and medicine, and leadership lessons from his experiences in crisis response.…

Mission Critical: Sourav Bose Tackles Public Health Research and Disaster Management

JB King is a director at Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest professional services firms and one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Big Four handle most of the financial audits for publicly traded companies. But don’t expect to see King accessorizing with a pencil and green plastic visor anytime soon. In this essay, King describes a very different view of life as an employee at a Big Four accounting firm.…

Inside Accounting: ‘There’s Room among the Pencil Pushers for Creative Types Like Me’

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