College, Careers & Job Skills

In case you haven’t heard, you are a member of the Millennial generation -- often defined as people between the ages of 17 and 34. According to the business experts, you can be tough to manage because you need lots of praise; you’re ambitious and eager to learn; and you know your way around Facebook and myyearbook. So what will all this mean when you start to look for a job? Your future employers are already figuring out how best to manage your ‘special’ skills.…

Millennials in the Workplace: Does This Sound Like You?

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

Peter Guber joined Columbia Pictures in 1968 and within three years was studio chief, leading Columbia through an era of hits, including "Shampoo", "The Way We Were", "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". He was named chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures in 1989. Under his tenure, the studio released "Basic Instinct", "A Few Good Men", and "Sleepless in Seattle". He speaks about how storytelling is the key to influencing people.…

Hollywood’s Peter Guber: Embracing the Art of Storytelling

Autumn Bayles didn’t make it to the executive offices of Tasty Baking Company in Philadelphia without letting her voice be heard. Her advice: “Raise your hand, ladies and gentlemen, because that’s the way you’re going to get the opportunities you want. It’s not always going to be handed to you.” Bayles talks about passion, problem solving, and why everyone no matter what the job, has to be a salesperson.…

A Piece of Cake? Hardly, but Autumn Bayles Helped Herself, and Others, Rise to the Top

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