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On Location with Sara Jane McCaffrey: Global Youth Students Explore Competitive Advantage in Cambridge, U.K.

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Sara Jane McCaffrey (pictured above with a group of students), a senior fellow and lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, spent the better part of her 2023 summer in Cambridge, United Kingdom, teaching Wharton Global Youth’s newest location-based program, Strategy and International Management. During back-to-back two-week…Read More

7 Leadership Questions for Wharton School Dean, Erika James

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Guests on Wharton Global Youth’s Future of the Business World podcast often close out their 20-minute interviews answering the lightning-round question: You’re starting your own business talk show, who is your first guest and why? A popular response? Dr. Erika H. James, dean of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.…Read More

Tips for Clarifying ChatGPT Policies in the High School Classroom

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Generative AI burst into classrooms last spring, and with the start of a new school year educators are reconsidering how it might enhance both teaching and learning. Many educators, resisting the urge to just ban it outright, spent the summer trying to figure out classroom guidelines for the use of…Read More

High School Students Experience the Wharton Entrepreneurship Game

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Youth entrepreneurship education is a big priority at Kern High School District in Bakersfield, California. It’s fitting that 13-17-year-olds from this district were the very first middle and high school students in the U.S. to pilot an entrepreneurship simulation developed for students at the Wharton School of the University of…Read More

Sneakers, $50 Keychains and Lessons Learned from the Reselling Business

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Entrepreneurship is certainly about innovative ideas, and it’s also a way to connect with a community of like-minded people and grow as a person. This month’s podcast guest, high school senior Alejandro Gonzalez, has appreciated these opportunities since he began reselling items like sneakers and clothing in his native Puerto…Read More

Round 4 Is the Exclamation Point on a Summer of Expressive Student Commenting

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We’re not gonna lie. Round 4 commenter Michelle Y, a junior from Hunter College High School in New York, U.S., awakened our deepest fears with her August 10, 2023 sentiments expressed on a Wharton Global Youth article about ChatGPT. She wrote: “With the rise of the Internet, making endless information…Read More

Responders Get Real in Round 3 of the 2023 Wharton Global Youth Comment and Win Contest

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One of the joys of evaluating the Wharton Global Youth Comment & Win contest each summer is revisiting evergreen content – stories we published years ago that have a vibrant shelf life. Comments pop up all over our business journal! Thus, inspiring us to dig into older business articles and…Read More

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