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Strategies that Trigger Innovative Thinking

A group of people in business attire are giving a presentation in front of a projected screen displaying the words "Core Ideas: Efficiency, Simplicity, Convenience, Accessibility."

Whether we are reading applications for our Wharton Summer High School Programs or interviewing teen entrepreneurs on our Future of the Business World podcast, our team at the Wharton Global Youth Program can’t escape a powerful trend: high school students across the globe are embracing the start-up culture. You are…Read More

Behind the Big Investment into Florian Hagenbuch’s Latin American Startup

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The Wharton Global Youth Program celebrated the close of another great Wharton Global High School Investment Competition with our Global Finale on May 7, 2021. We were dazzled by the diverse and creative investment strategies developed by student teams in the past several months. Despite hundreds of unique approaches and…Read More

M&R Investments Takes First Place in Our 2021 Global Finale

Three young individuals in a virtual setting, each representing a different investment team from the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition.

In what can best be described as a year of uncertainty, the 2020-2021 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition offered high school students worldwide something they could count on: the 9th straight year of collaborating with teammates and teachers, building creative investment strategies, analyzing industries and companies, trading stocks in…Read More

Steppingstone Scholars Study Personal Finance at Wharton

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It’s 5:00 p.m. Eastern on a recent Monday afternoon and several Philadelphia high school students are hanging out on Zoom – to talk about money. As participants in an introductory finance course for high school students offered by the Wharton School, they start out sharing with their instructor what they…Read More

What’s Your Climate Career Ambition?

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Climate action is a mindset – and one that feels increasingly critical on a global scale. At the recent virtual Earth Day Summit, the U.S. committed to cutting emissions by half by the end of the decade and integrating climate change into the country’s national security and foreign policy. Other…Read More

The Power of ‘Pivot or Perish’ in Retail

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A highlight of the Wharton Global Youth Program’s Future of the Business World online course has been the Pivot or Perish simulation, better known as POP. POP allows high school students to role-play as retailers and make critical decisions about their businesses at a time when the retail market was…Read More

5 Questions for Katherine Lin: Data Scientist in Training

A slide presentation comparing COVID death rates and socioeconomic factors such as race, age, education, and income. A person is in a video call on the right.

This story sits at the intersection of challenge and opportunity. First, the pandemic. While a time of crisis, it has also been a year of revealing numbers. Take, for instance, all the data generated from this very unique moment in our world’s history that can help us reflect on various…Read More

Future of the Business World: Two Innovators Take Us Inside the Entrepreneurship Journey

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A few months back, Sruthi Rayaprolu and Ujjayi Pamidigantam, two high school seniors living on opposite sides of the United States, reached out to let us know about their book for young entrepreneurs: “How to Catapult Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide.” Turns out, both of them are entrepreneurs in their…Read More

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