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Will Facebook’s Libra Legitimize Cryptocurrency?

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Facebook, the world’s largest social network with 2.4 billion users, is developing a cryptocurrency that has the potential to reshape the global financial system. Called Libra, the cryptocurrency and blockchain system is backed by major companies and groups and scheduled to hit the market in 2020. Facebook wants Libra to become…Read More

Scoring Equity at the Women’s World Cup

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Fútbol fans are buzzing as the United States women’s national soccer team – the best in the world and the favorite to win this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer tournament happening right now in Paris, France -- prepares to play its final group-stage match against Sweden on Thursday, June…Read More

An Intern’s Deep Dive into Behavioral Economics

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Stephanie Cook is a rising high school senior at Fort Worth Country Day in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. We first met Stephanie last summer when she won Round 3 of the Wharton Global Youth Comment & Win contest for her personal story about Taekwondo on the article Advice from New…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Comment & Win

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Why This Matters Now For many students and educators, school break has arrived or will very soon. Happy summer! How will your students spend their vacation time? Between their trips to the beach, college summer programs, internships and just hanging out with friends, why not give them the chance to…Read More

Welcoming a Summer of Students and a New Era of Leadership and Growth

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On June 8, Knowledge@Wharton High School welcomes the first group of high school students to our 2019 Global Young Leaders Academy (GYLA) at the Wharton School on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, U.S. Session One, the inaugural group of eight open-enrollment GYLA classes this summer, includes 60 students…Read More

Digital Well-Being: Do You Take Your Cell Phone to Bed?

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High school students would no doubt file the latest research from Common Sense Media under “Captain Obvious.” According to the company’s recently published “Screens and Sleep” report, the newest look at an ongoing study tracking how mobile devices are affecting families (see related links), more than one-third of teenagers bring…Read More

A Platform for Selling Art and Pursuing Dreams

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Inspiration for business can come from anywhere. For 18-year-old Adam Stiefel, it came from Snapchat. He was brainstorming ideas for a business plan to submit for his Investments and Entrepreneurship class at St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Florida, when a friend, Katie Boroian, sent him an original piece of…Read More

A Research Project Builds the ‘Three C’s Model of Entrepreneurial Success’

Andrew Raine, 17, is a junior at Friends Select School in Philadelphia. In 2017, he was a summer intern in the Character Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2018 attended the Knowledge@Wharton High School Global Young Leaders Academy summer program, both of which inspired him to pursue further…Read More

How the Trade War with China Is Hurting U.S. Farmers

The John Deere tractor has long been a symbol of farming in the U.S. Its signature bright green and yellow colors are often silhouetted against a grand expanse of field or crop, emerging from dust clouds with motor rumbling and blades spinning. That’s why on May 17 it was most…Read More

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