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Killing the ‘Cockroaches’ of Myths about Money

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Truth: Your bank account balance is not always the most important number in your financial profile. As your spending, borrowing and saving habits evolve, you will also be judged by the size of your credit score. A credit score is a number that represents the credit worthiness of a person…Read More

How a Teen Joined Tesla’s Supercharger Analytics Team

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Not every teenager gets to add experience working for Silicon Valley car maker Tesla to his LinkedIn profile. Dylan Diamond, a sophomore at Wharton and owner of Diamond Apps, LLC, is one of the few. Diamond, who built his first app while at Staples High in Connecticut, U.S., has been…Read More

A Recent High School Grad Reflects on the Clamor Over College Admissions

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Some of you will recognize the name Sid Muralidhar. Sid, 18, was the leader of last year’s KWHS Investment Competition team All You Can Eat Buffett from Virginia, which took first place in Region 3 and the Global Finale of our competition. Sid went to the No. 1 high school…Read More

Can Shaq Save the Papa John’s Brand?

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National Basketball League Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal is investing his time and money in a new game – pizza. Shaq just announced that he is the new pitchman for Papa John’s, the beleaguered pizza company that has struggled with its image since founder John Schnatter, the long-time face of…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Doing Business in Africa

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Why This Matters Now Nurturing global perspectives and creating leaders who grow economies, organizations and opportunities that transcend borders – this is a key mission these days of higher education institutions like Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania. The future of today’s students is inexorably linked to the complex challenges…Read More

KWHS Launches a Summer Finance Academy to Help High School Students ‘Pay It Forward’

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To understand the power of financial literacy is to see it in action. One of the most positive facets of running the Knowledge@Wharton High School Investment Competition, which this year involved 3,107 students and 320 teachers from 345 schools in 15 countries, has not only been building students’ financial knowledge, but also witnessing their…Read More

The 2019 Investment Competition Region 3 Finale Features a Yeti and a Whole Lot of Talent

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Madeleine Roberts admits that the thought of competing in the KWHS Investment Competition Region 3 finals gave her moments of anxiety prior to the big day on Saturday, March 16. Even so, her fears quickly subsided as she stepped off the elevator onto the 8th floor of Wharton’s Jon M. Huntsman…Read More

A Massive College Admissions Cheating Scandal Gets People Talking

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This week, the U.S. Department of Justice went public with its investigation into “Operation Varsity Blues,” an ongoing scandal to allegedly influence admissions decisions at several elite universities that is considered the biggest such fraud of its kind ever prosecuted in the U.S. Federal prosecutors say that 50 people took…Read More

Where Do You Stand on the Cash Debate?

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Going cashless might seem the logical route for retailers and other establishments that want to take full advantage of the digital economy. The Amazon Go convenience stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, and a few retailers in Philadelphia are among those to embrace a cashless system. However, the…Read More

Teams Pegasus, OG and CFuture Take Top Honors for the Region 1 Finals in Beijing

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Students arriving at the Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing, China, on the morning of Saturday, March 2, 2019, for the KWHS Investment Competition Region 1 finals, were greeted by a statue of Benjamin Franklin sitting on a bench -- a familiar icon to anyone who has visited the Wharton…Read More

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