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Baseball and Big Data: How Statistics and Analytics Are Changing the Game

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Spring training is underway in Florida and Arizona, and the first games start in March. But the decks weren’t fully set until recently, with a couple of big-name free agents still looking for a team. (A free agent can sign with any club or franchise, typically because their earlier contract…Read More

KWHS Holds Its Region 2 Investment Competition Finals at India’s National Stock Exchange

A group of students dressed in uniforms, standing on a stage during a presentation. The backdrop displays "Wharton High School Investment Competition" with company logos.

On the morning of Saturday, February 23, 2019, teams of high school students and their advisors streamed into the sunlit atrium of a Mumbai-based financial hub that few outsiders ever access: The National Stock Exchange of India. Many of them gazed in awe at the NSE logos, banners, and monitors…Read More

Career Insight: Saif Saeed Ghobash on Why Great Leaders Study History

Saif Saeed Ghobash is the undersecretary of the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi, a city in the United Arab Emirates. During our recent global travels, KWHS met Ghobash for a Knowledge@Wharton interview about his key role in helping to bring Paris’s famous Louvre museum to the UAE.…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Exploring Ethics

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Why This Matters Now Many of us want to build lives of meaning and purpose -- up to and including teenagers. In doing so, we need to learn what it means to have a moral foundation and values that guide the decisions that we make, whether they involve personal actions in…Read More

A ‘Battle Royale’ Between Two Video Game Companies

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The debut this month of Apex Legends, the new, free battle royale video game from the company Electronic Arts, is kicking up some dust in the gaming industry. This is mainly because Fortnite, the free battle royale game that has been a runaway hit for Epic Games since it launched…Read More

The Business of Bling: News from the Diamond Trade

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Valentine’s Day on February 14 often means heart-shaped chocolates, flowers and lots of bling. In fact, it’s a booming business. Americans will spend nearly $21 billion on sweet things for their sweethearts this year, according the National Retail Federation. And the biggest chunk of that change — $3.9 billion — will…Read More

Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Thoughts from Gen Z on the Future of Technology

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It’s hard to catch a day when Facebook is not making headlines, especially when it comes to privacy issues. This week, the social media platform founded and run by Mark Zuckerberg, has been defending its data-harvesting techniques – namely, its practice of offering gift cards of up to $20 to…Read More

Workplace Etiquette: Would You ‘Ghost’ Your Employer?

A person wearing a black outfit, holding a cardboard box with items, in an office setting. Their expression appears surprised or uncertain.

Ghosting is by no means a new trend. Many of us know it all too well – whether it happened on a dating app or during an actual budding romance with a boyfriend or girlfriend. Ghosting is where one person completely stops communicating with another without any explanation. You keep…Read More

The World of the White Hat Hacker

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The recent London Fashion Week debuting the spring 2019 styles of top designers, involved some unlikely runway models – a group of female hackers who spend far more time reading and writing computer code than they do buried in the pages of Vogue magazine. One model in particular stood out,…Read More

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