Entrepreneurs & Leaders Archives - Page 17 of 32 - Wharton Global Youth Program

While recent research suggest a significant gender gap for young people entering science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, plenty of women are already hard at work as scientists, researchers and other high-tech professionals. KWHS spends some time with a senior research investigator at Bristol-Myers Squibb to better understand what her job is all about.…

Career Spotlight: Scientist Charu Chaudhry on Life in a Big Biopharmaceutical Lab

The lives of business people and their companies often unfold like dramatic stories, rich with colorful characters and plot twists. Descriptions from these tales can get creative, including everything from “corporate raiders” in the 1980s to the term for today’s hottest tech start-up companies, known as “unicorns.”…

Business News Flash: Unicorns Do Exist!

In this second installment of the KWHS "Career Insight" feature (search Sachin Rekhi for the first), Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jack Abraham urges high school students to embrace technology as you consider your future career path.…

Career Insight: Jack Abraham on Changing the World through Technological Innovation

Entrepreneur Hart Main, inspired by the scents of fresh-cut grass, sawdust and Santa’s beard, has learned a thing or two while selling his “manly” scented candles – like the personal growth that comes from stepping outside your comfort zone and the value of a dollar. …

ManCans Founder Hart Main Is Well Prepared for College Life

What does it mean to be a global citizen? Students at a recent Wharton seminar explored that idea as they discussed changes in world economic power.…

China, the World Stage and Your Role as a Global Citizen

While the Internet has long been called the World Wide Web, its power as a tool to connect and provide services has taken time to develop in certain regions. In the past few years, young digital entrepreneur Loulou Khazen Baz has been growing Nabbesh.com, the Arab world’s first online employment marketplace. After winning "The Entrepreneur" in 2012, a reality TV show in the United Arab Emirates, Khazen Baz combined her prize money and her savings to launch a service that she feels is both a viable business and a much-needed social enterprise. …

A Realty TV Star from Dubai Grows the Arab World’s First Online Employment Marketplace

In this, Knowledge@Wharton High School’s first “Career Insight” feature in which an established entrepreneur or executive offers success strategies to high school students, Sachin Rekhi talks about the importance of overcoming your risk of rejection. …

Career Insight: Sachin Rekhi on Why You Shouldn’t Fear Rejection

As California’s Golden State Warriors professional basketball team moves its way through the NBA playoffs after finishing off a remarkable regular season, KWHS takes you behind the scenes with Daniel Brusilovsky, the team’s digital initiatives lead. Brusilovsky, a teen tech whiz who now, at 22, has landed a "dream" job with the Warriors, explains beacon technology and why it’s important to start learning and doing.…

Checking In with a Guy behind New Technologies for the Golden State Warriors

Young entrepreneurs from around the world recently gathered in New York City to be honored during the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s Global Showcase. KWHS checked in with several of them — from Maryland to Ireland -- to find out what they consider to be the true essence of entrepreneurship.…

What Does Entrepreneurship Mean to You?