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9 Business Terms Making News During the Pandemic

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Keeping up on current events right now means understanding the language of business. It’s likely you’ll see or hear the following terms, used regularly during the COVID-19 crisis, in the days and weeks ahead. Can you use them all in a coherent sentence? Dazzle us in the comment section of…Read More

Wharton Insights on the Impact and Implications of Coronavirus

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As the world grapples with the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wharton has found a way to use its expertise and vision to examine the real-time challenges facing companies, financial markets and political systems. On March 25, the school will launch “Epidemics, Natural Disasters, and Geopolitics: Managing…Read More

Jordan Williams on Overcoming Challenges and Choosing Your Own Path

Jordan Williams, 21, is a senior at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. While sophomores in high school in Atlanta, Georgia, Williams and his friend founded the Young Moguls Brand, an urban clothing line that promotes entrepreneurship. Williams’ venture inspired his journey to Wharton, where he has learned so much…Read More

Career Insight: CFO Lloyd Howell Jr. on Being Prepared for Anything

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Lloyd Howell Jr., chief financial officer and treasurer of Booz Allen Hamilton, a global consulting firm, recently stopped by the 8th floor of Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for a Wharton/McNulty Leadership Lecture with Maryellen Reilly, deputy vice dean of Wharton’s MBA (Master of Business Administration)…Read More

Take 5: The Economic Impact of the Coronavirus

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The Wharton Global Youth Program that runs the Knowledge@Wharton High School online business journal and programs for pre-college students, is experiencing fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that emerged in China in December and has brought the world’s second-largest economy to its knees. In the past two weeks, for example, our…Read More

A Tale of Big Friendly Giants and Fierce Competitors at India’s Region 2 Final

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It was 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 22 at the Infosys Limited headquarters in Electronics City, Bangalore, India. While the walkways were clear for the weekend of the thousands of employees who regularly strolled the campus, the activity was frenetic around the N. Narayan Murthy building. High school students from…Read More

An Intern Discovers the World of Business and the Strength of a Global Perspective

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Elizabeth O., 15, is a student at the Singapore American School. She recently contacted Wharton Global Youth in hopes of sharing highlights from her business internship during winter break. Here, Elizabeth writes about her experiences gaining important workplace skills, including independence, responsibility and collaboration. As a high school sophomore at…Read More

Celebrating the Results of Our First-ever Region 4 Final in Brazil

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February is a festive time in Brazil. The country has spent the past few weeks preparing for and reveling in Carnival, an annual festival known for its dancing in the streets. Members of the Wharton School’s Global Youth Program team took to the Brazilian cityscape for reveling of a different…Read More

4 Questions for Gen Z Mask Entrepreneur Elvis Zhang

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At the age of 19, Elvis Zhang was the youngest among the 2018 class of Forbes 30 Under 30 successful people in business, as the founder of Oxy2, a technology design company with both for-profit and non-profit divisions. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton High School, Zhang, a native of China…Read More

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