During the first Future of Work Conference this spring, Wharton People Analytics explored themes that are transforming the workplace. Adam Grant, Wharton organizational psychologist and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, introduced the virtual day of learning. “What the data have been telling us for the past two years is…Read More
You might call this a very sweet dataset: 159 pounds of apples, 84 pounds of persimmons, 104 pounds of plums, 28 pounds of key limes. Carrie Lange calls it community-centered problem solving. Lange, 17, is the founder of Fruits of Labor, an organization in California’s Bay Area that aspires to…Read More
A few years back, former Disney CEO Bob Iger, who is considered one of the most respected executives in the corporate entertainment world, visited the Wharton School campus for an Authors@Wharton chat with management professor Adam Grant. Iger shared leadership and life intel from his recently published book The Ride…Read More
April 22, 2022 was an epic day for Lorenzo Melendez, 22, and Ulysses Atkeson, 21, lifetime friends and promising blockchain entrepreneurs. Following three months of building their startup Cowboy Labs as part of Wharton’s Cypher Accelerator, a support program for young crypto and blockchain companies, Lorenzo and Ulysses were ready…Read More
On April 22, 2022, more than 50 high school students from as nearby as Northern New Jersey and as a far away as Indonesia traveled to the campus of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, for the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition Learning Day. The next morning…Read More
If you were in the vicinity of the Wharton School on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia, on Friday, April 22, you may have spotted a group of animated students taking selfies with the legendary statue of Ben Franklin on a bench (Franklin founded Penn). They could easily have…Read More
On April 22 and 23, the Wharton Global Youth Program welcomed finance-hungry high school students back to the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania campus for the first time since 2019. More than 50 students along with their parents and teachers traveled to Philadelphia from as nearby as Northern New Jersey…Read More
This month’s episode – our 20th — achieves two firsts in the lifetime of our Future of the Business World podcast: a discussion with tomorrow’s leaders about problem-solving for our planet just in time for Earth Day 2022; and hearing from students who are not just from India, but also…Read More
The future of finance is tech-driven and revolutionary, transforming everything from how you manage your money – like mobile payments you make to your friends and e-loans you take out to pay for big purchases – to how entire industries operate. Take, for example, BioPhy, a health care fintech company…Read More
Spring is competition season at Wharton Global Youth, as judges select the top 10 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition teams from among the 50 semifinalists and we prepare for the Global Finale, held this year on April 22 and 23.(Check out the photo above: a flashback from our 2019…Read More
