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Why Forever 21 Filed for Bankruptcy

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YouTubers love Forever 21. Take, for instance, Kayleigh Noelle, a beauty and fashion vlogger with nearly 700,000 subscribers. This spring, she posted her Forever 21 Try On Haul video, gushing, “Forever 21 is super affordable and some pieces I still have in my closet from many seasons ago. I am…Read More

Inside Cybersecurity: The Vulnerabilities and Opportunities

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Awhile back Phalguni M., a high school student in New Jersey, U.S., was working on a school assignment in Google Drive. When she logged in, she was redirected to random tabs urging her to click in exchange for financial rewards. Phalguni immediately closed the tabs, but wondered what had lurked…Read More

Educator Toolkit: The Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Why This Matters Now So often we talk about entrepreneurship in the context of start-ups -- determined men and women with great ideas and a hunger to turn them into growing businesses. Knowledge@Wharton High School is filled with stories about enterprising young entrepreneurs with big dreams for success in everything…Read More

The Global Climate Strike and How Business Is Responding in the Face of Activism

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Friday, September 20, 2019 was an important day for high school student activists. Tens of thousands walked out of their schools or skipped school entirely to participate in Global Climate Strike marches happening in cities across the U.S. and internationally. The latest statistics, at least in the U.S., suggested that…Read More

It’s a Wrap! The Round 4 and Grand Prize Winners for Our 2019 Comment & Win

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“As we continue to buy and throw out clothes at rapid rates, the amount of textiles ending up in already brimming landfills also continues to grow. A single garment alone can lie in a landfill for over 200 years.” In Round 4 of the 2018 Comment and Win contest --…Read More

9 Insights About Negative Interest Rates

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How low can interest rates go? As it turns out, below zero. This is by no means an icy proposition as that might suggest, but instead a strategy to heat up economic growth. It was a hot topic in September 2019, following comments by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.…Read More

Are We Sinking into an Economic Recession?

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We can all learn a thing or two from those who came before us. For Generation Z, currently in high school and college, the previous generation of millennials can share really valuable insights about a significant economic crisis that happened a decade ago – the Great Recession. Technically speaking, the…Read More

How Dungeons & Dragons Sparks Business Insight

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Like most high school students on the U.S. East Coast, Emily Scott started school this week. A junior at Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School in Philadelphia, Scott is faced with all sorts of choices as she thinks about her demanding course schedule, standardized testing and college visits and applications. And then,…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Wall Street

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Why This Matters Now If current events help you spark conversation in the classroom, then get to know Wall Street. The metonym Wall Street has come to symbolize America’s financial hub -- if not the center of the world’s capital markets -- as well as the engine that drives individual…Read More

Wisdom from the Parlor: Ice Cream Entrepreneurs Share Their Struggles

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Emilee Rysticken’s social media tells a unique story. In early June, she was posing in cap and gown, gushing about her graduation from Two Rivers High School in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, U.S. By June 30, mere weeks after opening her ice cream business, Scream’n Conuts (with cones made from donuts),…Read More

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