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Analyzing F1 Motorsports Drivers in Wharton’s Moneyball FLEX

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Growing up in Korea, I struggled against odds to nurture my unlikely love of baseball. I’d gather friends for pickup games in the city of Icheon’s only baseball field, relentlessly practicing my pitching, batting, and running to one day fulfill my childhood dream of becoming a Major League player. Soon,…Read More

How One Student Discovered Her Niche Inside Real Estate

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Margaux D.K. believes that everyone who works in real estate has a personal reason for choosing that path. For her, it was the promise of new spaces. “I’ve moved 23 times in my life – 23 different houses,” says Margaux, a senior at the Wharton School of the University of…Read More

Announcing the 50 Semifinalists in the 2025 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition

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More than 5,000 registrations began rolling in last June, ultimately resulting in more than 1,800 teams from 66 countries submitting final reports following the end of stock market trading on December 6, 2024 -- our biggest Wharton Global High School Investment Competition yet. And now, the moment that thousands of…Read More

The Rise of AI-powered Health Care

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Albert Katz (WG23) embraces a fundamental truth: nothing matters unless you’re healthy. That simple philosophy, along with undergrad and master’s degrees in finance and computer science, and a Wharton School MBA in health care management, motivated him to launch Flagler Health, which combines patient data and the power of AI…Read More

Behind the Business of Baseball with Phillies’ Owner John Middleton

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The Wharton School welcomes all kinds of visitors from around the world to its Philadelphia campus -- captains of industry, celebrities, and serial entrepreneurs. Sometimes, however, big names need only travel a few blocks to Locust Walk to impart their best business wisdom. Such was the case recently when John…Read More

This Lecture Got Me Thinking, Which Brand Would I Defend?

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The concept of brand loyalty has always intrigued me. How does Apple manage to retain such a high customer retention rate despite not making any life-changing modifications to their products? How did Elon Musk build Tesla without traditional advertising? Why do customers willingly declare their allegiance to a brand? I…Read More

How Much Flu Vaccine Do Pharmaceutical Companies Need to Produce?

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When you picture the intersection between business and health care, you might see social impact – innovators who design new ways to make us all healthier. Take, for instance, Medha Sharma, who plans to graduate with a Wharton School MBA degree in 2025. While Medha is studying to be a…Read More

AI and the Human Brain: Holding On to Our Humanity

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Each year we celebrate the voices of high school students around the world as they reflect on Wharton Global Youth content during our Comment and Win competition. Zhenghao (Eric) Z., a high school senior from Potomac, Maryland in the U.S., was particularly intrigued by neuroscience, the study of the brain…Read More

From Dorm Rooms to Discounted Cash Flow: My Wharton Summer Adventure

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In the summer of 2024, I attended the Essentials of Finance program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a two-week whirlwind of learning, connecting, and living the college life. I thought I would share a few pages of my EofF journal: Sunday, July 14: Here We Go! As I…Read More

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