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Price-to-earnings, debt-to-equity: Investors doing their research about companies come across these ratios all the time. Peter Hand, an investment analyst on the North American Equity Team at Aberdeen Asset Management in Philadelphia, discusses financial ratios and how they help to inform investment decisions. …

Financial Ratios: Evaluating a Company’s Health and Worth

What does it mean to invest money, and what are some of the best ways to get started? Paul Atkinson, head of North American Equities at Aberdeen Asset Management in Philadelphia, talks to KWHS about some fundamentals of the investment world.…

Investing 101: The Prospect of Growing Your Money

Investment analyst Peter Hand has been working professionally in the investment field for about two years, a job that he scored thanks to a valuable college internship. He spoke to Knowledge@Wharton High School about his own career track and also offered a lesson in understanding company financial statements. …

Making a Statement: 10-Ks, 10-Qs and Company Financials

In late January 2012, high school students from across the country met up at MIT to see their knowledge and hard work in action – on the International Space Station – at the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge. While programming robots was fun, the students were also learning what it takes to be successful in a high-tech career.…

Programming Robots in Zero Gravity

Evan Reynolds is the 20-year-old manager of OCD: Moosh and Twist, a teen hip-hop duo from Philadelphia, Pa. The one-time Wharton student took a leave of absence in 2011 to promote and handle the group full-time. Reynolds spoke to Knowledge@Wharton High School editor Diana Drake about his decision to leave school to manage a rap duo and why the music industry is like junior high all over again.…

Hip Hop on the Go: Evan Reynolds Is a Young Manager in an Industry of Colorful Characters

DeQuincy “Moosh” Coleman McRae and Oliver “Twist” Feighan are better known as the hip-hop duo OCD: Moosh and Twist. The Philadelphia natives graduated from high school in the spring of 2011 and are now pursuing a music career full time. Their goal in hip hop, they have said, is to spread positivity and prove that hard work can get you anywhere. They talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School about being teens in the rap industry, their lyrical inspirations (“To be or not to be…”) and the importance of believing in yourself. …

Moosh and Twist: ‘City Kids’ in a Hip Hop World

High-profile hair stylist Alan Gold talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School about his career path, how best to fulfill customers' wish lists, what it takes to do runway shows, and why he has been so successful in an ultra competitive industry. …

Hair Stylist Alan Gold: ‘The Industry Is 40% Emotion, 60% Talent’

Americus Reed is a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the marketing department’s only identity theorist, which means that he researches the role that consumers’ self concepts play in guiding buying decisions. He spoke with Knowledge@Wharton High School about marketing, brands and how his skill at playing drums and classical guitar grooves well with the patterns of business.…

Americus Reed on Marketing, Brands and the Cadence of Business and Creativity

Margot Stern is a Wharton MBA student. During a recent class on consumer behavior, she called on the expertise of high school students in and around Philadelphia for their insight about how best to position the national running shoe brand, Saucony. Stern spoke with Knowledge@Wharton High School about her interest in marketing, focus groups and why she is impressed by high school students’ authenticity.…

Marketing Student Margot Stern on Pizza, Gatorade and ‘Legit’ Brand Awareness