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Announcing the Launch of Our Understanding Your Money Course

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The Wharton Global Youth Program introduces Understanding Your Money, its first self-paced online course for high school students in grades 9-12. Video lessons featuring University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School professors guide learners through four comprehensive modules that cover the basics of economics, money management and financial decision-making. Each course unit features…Read More

5 Ways the World Will Look Different in 2030

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The world is changing. Are you ready? The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing companies to create new business models, causing consumers to rethink the way they buy things, inspiring entrepreneurs to innovate, and resulting in a lot of global economic uncertainty. It can be both energizing and unsettling to be part…Read More

You’re on Mute: Inside the Online Video Communications Market

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Back to school looks pretty different for many of you these days, though it has a common theme. It’s a verb (getting ready to Zoom). It’s an access code (where’s my Zoom link?). It’s a way of life (six hours of Zoom classes today!). Since the start of the pandemic…Read More

The Conversation: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Business

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The global pandemic added great uncertainty to our lives in the early 2020s, and yet many high school students raised a collective voice of assurance about one important issue: racism in America. The May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparked protests that spilled…Read More

A New Podcast Featuring Teen Innovators Explores the Future of the Business World

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Starting with this episode, the Wharton Global Youth Program is excited to launch a new audio podcast, Future of the Business World. Inspired by an online course of the same name that the Global Youth team created for high school students when summer 2020 went virtual, Future of the Business…Read More

Wharton Summer High School Programs Embrace This Time of Innovation and Change

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It was a Friday morning in June, and Rucha M. was feeling nervous. She and her team of four high school students were preparing to pitch an innovative app idea to the rest of their Wharton summer class. They had developed the prototype named Klustr for the course’s final project:…Read More

5 Truths about Money During the Pandemic

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While many people talk about the health crisis brought on by the outbreak of COVID-19, that is not the only challenge causing stress. People are also worrying about their finances, both short-term and long-term. Recent statistics revealed that nearly 40 million people had lost their jobs since the pandemic began.…Read More

Student Essay: Landing a Summer Internship with Formula One

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Cristina S. is a high school student from Romania who attended the Wharton Global Youth Summer Program in entrepreneurship in 2019 (then called the Global Young Leaders Academy). Cristina says that her time at Wharton “made me realize that at the end of the day we are all powerful beyond…Read More

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