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Student Essay: My Summer Working for a Payday Lender

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Payday lending has grabbed headlines in the past several years for its danger to vulnerable borrowers who can't pay back the principal, plus high interest rates (the money borrowers have to pay to a lender in addition to the loan amount) packaged in these "fast cash" loans. Basically, these are…Read More

Students Appeal to the Art of Storytelling in Round 3 of the Comment & Win Contest

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Wharton’s McNulty Leadership Program helps students become more self-aware and develop enduring leadership skills. McNulty recently hosted “The Leader as Storyteller” workshop to encourage participants to consider their own stories and experiences as a way to understand the core beliefs that guide their lives. In promoting the workshop, McNulty said,…Read More

Tackling Texting While Driving: ‘The Decision to Reach for That Phone Can Be Impulsive’

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You already know that you’re not supposed to text and drive. Your parents have lectured you endlessly about it, you’ve been taught the horror stories about it in driver’s ed class, and you probably live in one of the 49 states where it’s illegal for teens to text behind the…Read More

Career Insight: Jerrold Fine on What It Takes to Succeed on Wall Street

Jerrold Fine, 77, is a true hedge fund pioneer. Three years after graduating from Wharton, in 1967, Fine left his first job at Dominick & Dominick and teamed up with Michael Steinhardt and Howard Berkowitz to co-found Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co., one of Wall Street’s most successful hedge funds.…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Emotional Intelligence

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Why This Matters Now Emotional intelligence or EI – sometimes called emotional quotient or EQ -- gets tossed around a lot these days as a skill that young people must embrace and develop in order to become successful in the workplace. The term means that you are aware of and…Read More

Commenters Respond and Respectfully Disagree In Round 2 of the Comment and Win Contest

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Round 2 of the 2019 KWHS Comment and Win contest provides empirical evidence for a common theory: the internet has indeed made the world a smaller place. Comments, while gracious and engaging, crossed time zones and borders. In keeping with the theme of the latest round, which lasted from July…Read More

3 Things You Can Do with an Economics Degree

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U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who held that office from 1981-1989, famously joked that if a Trivial Pursuit game were designed by economists, it would have 100 questions and 3,000 answers. It was a sharp jab at the profession, which he knew a little something about. In 1932, Reagan earned a…Read More

10 Signs Space Tourism Has Arrived

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Alyssa Carson, 18 and a recent high school grad of Baton Rouge International School in Louisiana, U.S., is headed to Florida Tech this fall to study astrobiology, the scientific exploration of life on earth and in space. Anyone who has met Alyssa knows that this major has been years in…Read More

Announcing the Round 1 Winners of the 2019 KWHS Comment and Win Contest!

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Our 2019 Comment and Win contest is off to a fantastic start! The KWHS team has been thoroughly enjoying its latest summer read, relishing the task of assessing some 40 comments left on KWHS articles from high school students around the world, reflecting on a wide range of topics, from…Read More

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