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6 Questions for Wharton Behavioral Economist Katy Milkman

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Katy Milkman, a professor of operations, information and decisions (OID) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and author of the bestseller How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, is a pioneering scientist in the field of behavioral…Read More

Lessons from Shake Shack Founder Danny Meyer, with a Side of Fries

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Next time you get ready to inhale a ShackBurger at Shake Shack, the American fast-food chain with restaurants across the U.S. and internationally in countries like China and Qatar, remember this. Founder Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack meal of choice is a plain cheeseburger, fries and a coffee milkshake. His all-time…Read More

5 Truths about Behavioral Economics and Studying Consumer Behavior

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1️⃣ Joining forces. In the past three decades, psychologists and economists have united to study how people process information and make decisions. The result? The field of behavioral economics. In his research paper Behavioral Economics and Health, Judd Kessler, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,…Read More

Neuroeconomics: Getting to the Root of How We Think About Things

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Where do business and brain science meet? In some fascinating places. Giant pharmaceutical and biotech companies like Pfizer and Merck invest millions of dollars in developing treatments for neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s. And it’s not just a big-company field. According to Business Insider, startup companies that are focused on drug…Read More

Wharton’s Christian Terwiesch on How ChatGPT Can Stimulate Your Thinking

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There’s a little chatbot getting a lot of attention right now. Maybe you’ve heard of it? ChatGPT. Launched by OpenAI in November 2022, this generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology is literally blowing people’s minds with its ability to answer prompts by generating full written essays and formulating complete ideas. …Read More

Congratulations to This Year’s Investment Competition Semifinalists!

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Where might you encounter bulls, doves, wolves, turtles, eagles, lions and even a Himalayan melange? They’re all among the teams that are storming the gates of Wharton Global Youth’s investment competition Semifinal Round. We’re excited to announce the Top 55 Semifinalist Teams in our annual Wharton Global High School Investment…Read More

Building a Platform for Short-form Audio Content that Appeals to the Neurodiverse

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Lily Stambouli, a junior at Harvard Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, has a big goal for the future: to become CEO of her own company that in some way helps others. Many high school students embrace social entrepreneurship, and it can be interesting to discover the different building materials…Read More

Business, the Brain and Brand Loyalty

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The exploration of all the ways that business touches your lives can lead to some intriguing places. Wharton Global Youth has followed economic and entrepreneurial threads inside cities and family businesses, through Hollywood entertainment and Silicon Valley startups, across the blue economy of oceans and ESG investing, to the metaverse…Read More

Essentials of Personal Finance Students Visit Wharton’s Philadelphia Campus

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One of the strengths of the Wharton Global Youth Embedded Pre-baccalaureate Program is that it provides the chance for high school students to take college-credit Wharton School courses directly from their high schools, connecting weekly with Wharton MBA instructors on Zoom, working virtually with University of Pennsylvania teaching assistants, and…Read More

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