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Essentials of Leadership: It All Starts with You

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Ask someone to explain the lifeblood of leadership and you’re likely to get different answers. Leaders need to be effective communicators, critical thinkers, problem-solvers and decision-makers. Ultimately, however, all these skills gather strength from self-awareness. How can you lead others if you don’t understand yourself? Program leader Keith D. Ellison.…Read More

Future Leaders Learn to Communicate for the Long-term

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Joshua L., a Global Youth Comment & Win competitor, has this to say about leadership: “Good leaders aren’t perfect. Obviously, a lot of leadership skills are nurtured from mistakes…The best way to nurture great leaders is by teaching, followed by experience and learning from errors.” While high students like Joshua…Read More

The Power of Technology Lifts Sales for Mumbai’s Book Vendors

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On this episode of Future of the Business World, we travel to India to learn about a student startup that problem-solved during the challenges of the pandemic to help street book vendors survive. Founder Kush Malpani, a high school senior in Mumbai, first spoke of his business during the 2022…Read More

Wharton School Dean Erika James Prepares You for Crisis Leadership

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The business world often talks about the triple bottom line of people, planet and profits, which is to say a company performs well financially (the standard bottom line of profits), treats its employees and the community well, and takes care of the environment. Erika James, dean of the Wharton School…Read More

Students Explore the Design Research Process in Our Product Design Academy

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It’s a summer Friday on the Wharton School’s Philadelphia campus and the hallways around Wharton’s new Academic Research Building are popping with activity. More than 50 high school students on 13 teams have come together to present at the Product Design Academy Design Fair (formerly Essentials of Entrepreneurship), which is…Read More

A High School Educator’s Experience Co-teaching a Remote College Course

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In July 2021 Katharine Chambers, a finance teacher at Manchester High School in Connecticut, received a curious email from her principal. Would she like to help teach a special personal finance class to a select number of Manchester students that had been designed and would be taught remotely by the…Read More

Venture Capital Investing: What It Is and Where It’s Headed

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OK, we’ve heard you and we just have to highlight a consistent theme – high school students have a pervasive entrepreneurial mindset. You tackle problems with innovation, and often take the steps to launch your own school clubs, if not outright entrepreneurial ventures, to put ideas into action. Vera H.,…Read More

Investor in Action: 5 Questions for Andrew Dudum of Hims & Hers

High school students learning in our Wharton Global Youth online programs have the opportunity to virtually meet Wharton School graduates working in a variety of industries during our Alumni Chats hosted on the Wharton Global Youth Meetup online community. Marissa Sawicki (WG’23) who helped teach our Leadership in the Business…Read More

Wharton Global Youth Summer 2022: Collaboration, Community and Connections

How was your summer? As many high school students dive back into their schedules, overflowing with tests, papers, applications and extracurriculars, it’s time to reflect on the past few months. Our Wharton Global Youth team is both exhausted and exhilarated after running high school programs from June to August, during…Read More

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