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5 Ways for Students to Engage with the Wharton Global Youth Program

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Lots of high school students have heard about the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), whether you’re hoping to attend someday or you have read about its place among the top Ivy League universities. Wharton – one of twelve schools within Penn – is among the best business schools in the world.…Read More

5 Ways for Educators to Engage with the Wharton Global Youth Program in 2020

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Last year brought big changes for Knowledge@Wharton High School, as our team joined the new Wharton Global Youth Program. Fueled by the world-class expertise at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, we are seriously poised for great things in the new decade! With that, here are five ways…Read More

Valentina Losada on Getting Experience in the Field of Management Consulting

McKinsey & Company’s practices have been in the news of late, in part because South Bend, Indiana, mayor and U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg worked for the big-name consulting firm after graduating from Oxford in 2007. The global company, which has more than $10 billion in revenues, 27,000 employees…Read More

Providing Guidance to Others Could Boost Your Own Success

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Have you given someone advice lately? Turns out, it might help you as much as it helps them. Wharton’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative, which is working to learn how behavioral science can teach people to be healthier, better educated, and more responsible with their finances, recently published research that…Read More

Our Trip to Shenzhen, China for the “Youth Changing the World” Competition

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The Wharton Global Youth Program had the opportunity this month to get a glimpse into how high school students in China think about innovation and finance. We traveled to the offices of China Merchants Bank in Shenzhen, China, to help judge the company’s third-annual “Chinese Youth Changing the World” competition.…Read More

Technology and Privacy

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Why This Matters Now Not long ago, Knowledge@Wharton High School gathered insights about the future of technology from some of the most faithful technologists, the digital natives of Generation Z. Delphine Leoue Ngoko Djomo, 18 and a freshman at the University of Miami, Florida, had this to say: “Technology is…Read More

Revealing Secrets of Magic, Leadership and Life

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Have you ever seen the NBC TV show Blindspot and wondered how they turned the tattoos on a woman’s body into clues for solving crimes? Or maybe you watched the movie Now You See Me and were amazed by charming magician Atlas and his team of illusionists. In both these…Read More

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