Ever since he was a little boy, Mikel G. has been involved in some way in the family business. “I’ve grown up working in my dad’s company,” says Mikel, 18 and a high school senior in Georgia, U.S. Global Blue Trading, the family wholesale company that buys overstock, store returns…Read More
In this edition of The Essential Educator blog, written by educators for educators, Justin R. Harbour, an Advanced Placement (AP) Economics teacher at La Salle College High School in Pennsylvania and a member of the Wharton Global Youth Program Educator Advisory Board, makes the case for including more vibrant, skills-focused…Read More
Lately, we’ve had cities on our mind at Wharton Global Youth (like our hometown of Philadelphia, pictured above). And we’re not alone. The growing interest in small-town living during the pandemic has underscored what many are calling “urban flight,” as people escape congested spaces in search of safer social distancing…Read More
The Wharton Global Youth Program team has arrived at one of our favorite times of the year! We’re excited to announce the Top 50 Semifinalist Teams in our annual Wharton Global High School Investment Competition, which this year kicked off in late September 2021. Following the end of trading, the…Read More
This month on Future of the Business World, we travel to Newark, N.J., to speak with Dashawn Sheffield, 17 and a junior at North Star Academy Washington Park High School. Last year, Dashawn (pictured above, left, with two of his high school friends) took second place in the Educational Equity…Read More
Adding to an already impressive lineup of on-campus summer business and finance programs for high school students, the Wharton Global Youth Program has launched Essentials of Innovation, an introduction to the world of new venture creation. During this intensive two-week summer program – our very first to be offered on…Read More
Wharton’s Jay H. Baker Retailing Center, a retail think tank that supports the exchange of ideas, insights and research between the industry, Wharton School faculty and students, is always watching the latest trends. Mina Fader, managing director of the center, says, “The nice thing about retail is that everybody can…Read More
High school business and finance teacher Megan DeLena has worked with the Wharton Global Youth Program for more than 10 years, teaching in our summer high school program, serving on our Educator Advisory Board, and using our classroom resources with her own students, both in Pennsylvania and later in South…Read More
This month we speak with two high school students who connected in the Wharton Pre-Baccalaureate Program in the summer of 2021 and have since put some entrepreneurial energy behind applying what they learned in the real world – specifically, to help small businesses (click on the arrow above to listen…Read More
If Mark Cuban could play a superhero, who would he be? Not surprisingly, a character of his own making: FIM or Failed Ironman. “He’s the person who invents things that always fail,” said Cuban. “He fails so much that he learns really good lessons and he uses those lessons to…Read More
