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Roadtrip! A Year of Brand Building and Self Discovery Inside the Wienermobile

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With the help of a 27-foot-long hot dog on wheels, Wharton Global Youth is exploring internships. Why internships? By most accounts, being able to step into a job part-time and experience the daily responsibilities and workplace culture is a great way to figure out what you want to do with…Read More

How a Wharton Hip-Hop Artist Ended Up Giving a TEDx Talk to High School Students in Norway

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We talk a lot about the different ways that the KWHS Investment Competition impacts students’ lives – building their financial and communication skills and promoting teamwork and entrepreneurial thinking. Add to that list meaningful connections that lead to inspiring outcomes. Last year, during our first KWHS Investment Competition Learning Day…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Financial Literacy

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Why This Matters Now April is Financial Literacy Month in the U.S. The Wharton Global Youth Program talks a lot about this concept that means learning to manage money well. Financial literacy is a deep understanding of how money works in the world, including basic concepts like earning and saving,…Read More

Why Spotify’s Unusual Business Move Is Capturing Headlines

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If you know Daniel Ek, the Swedish-born CEO of Spotify, then you’re not surprised that he is making news for taking an unconventional path. He started his own business designing and building websites at age 14, and by age 18 he was managing a team of 25 programmers. He sold…Read More

A High School Freshman Raises Funds on Kickstarter for Her New Kind of Backpack

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Entrepreneur and high school freshman Emily Scott, 14, recently joined KWHS interviewer Anthony Williams in the studio to discuss her invention, the Clip and Zip Backpack. Scott is taking many lessons away from her first business experience, including the emotional roller coaster of crowdfunding a business idea through an online…Read More

Prakash Koirala Uses Piggy Banks To Empower Nepalese Students

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April is Financial Literacy Month in the U.S. To honor the importance of personal finance and the power of making smart decisions about the money we earn, KWHS is featuring profiles in April of people from around the world who are champions of financial awareness and inclusion and money management. …Read More

Announcing the Region 3 KWHS Investment Competition Finalists

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We knew from the get-go that Region 3 of the KWHS Investment Competition was a pack of fierce competitors. We received hundreds of registrations from teams in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Then when the mid-project team reviews started streaming in…Read More

Enterprising Easter Bunnies Share Lessons in Entrepreneurship

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A couple of high school juniors from Billings, Montana, U.S., will be sneaking into neighborhood yards this Saturday night under the cloak of darkness to do some serious “egging.” Before you start envisioning trees draped with toilet paper and yolks dripping down windowpanes, this egging is quite innocent, and a…Read More

Career Insight: The First Woman to Coach in the NFL on Teamwork and the Power of Relationships

Jen Welter has had a career of firsts in a field dominated by men. After playing in professional women’s football, the 5-foot-2-inch powerhouse was the first female running back to play for a men’s professional league. In 2015, she became the first woman to coach in the NFL, serving as…Read More

March Toy Story: Bankruptcy, Barbies and Brand Narrative

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A pair of pepperoni pizza knee-highs from Claire’s. A KWHS team member recently fessed up that these were her favorite socks of all time. What’s your best Claire’s purchase? Nail polish shaped like a mint ice cream cone? A gold leaf headwrap? Maybe sparkly snowflake earrings? For many of us,…Read More

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