In a world marked by polarized views and escalating conflicts, the ability to respond directly and thoughtfully to someone’s ideas is a core strength – and a competitive advantage. Round 3 of the 2024 Wharton Global Youth Comment and Win competition, in which commenters had to respond to the reflections…Read More
True story. Our Wharton Global Youth team has been lost in your Round 2 reflections for days! Following the July 5 deadline, we dove in, immersed in threads of creative, business-minded commenters who embraced the 2024 Comment and Win Contest Round 2 storytelling theme with enthusiasm and flair — sharing…Read More 
Our eyes are tired and our hearts are full! Round 1 2024 commenters hit the ground running, punning, and stunning, dropping nearly 180 unique comments on Wharton Global Youth articles from June 10 to June 21. This was our biggest Comment and Win round EVAH! Thus, making the EVAL that…Read More 
High school students love a good passion project – and often, what begins in the classroom launches into the business world. This month’s Future of the Business World podcast guest is poised to explore the market for her IB school project during her time in Wharton Global Youth’s Essentials of…Read More 
On Episode 45 of Wharton Global Youth’s Future of the Business World podcast, tea brand innovator Victoria Fang Gao, says: “Buying a brand is like opening a book; only a good story can keep the readers coming back and back again.” We agree that the topic of brand in business…Read More 
This month’s Future of the Business World podcast takes us to the mountains of Yunnan, China, where high school student Victoria Fang Gao – who is headed to Wharton’s Leadership in the Business World program in July -- has spent many summers exploring and discovering the mysteries of pu'er tea.…Read More 
Financial education is the core of the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition. So, it stands to reason that the accompanying annual Learning Day, held this year on April 19, 2024, provided members of the 11 finalist teams (in Philadelphia to compete in the Global Finale on April 20) with…Read More 
Few financial decisions are more daunting and potentially debilitating than taking out student loans to pay for college, which is one of the first times that most high school students are faced with a serious money-management choice – and it’s a biggie. Why? It can leave students with a heavy…Read More 
What happens when generative AI and innovation collide? Tech fire. At the Wharton Hack-AI-Thon, co-hosted by AI at Wharton, Analytics at Wharton and the Wharton AI and Analytics Club, University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School students worked in small teams to create something new. In this hackathon with a twist,…Read More 
The abiding theme for the annual Wharton Global High School Investment Competition might well be: You can achieve growth through many paths. That sentiment was surely on display on Saturday, April 20, 2024, as this year’s top 11 investment competition teams gathered on the 8th floor of the Wharton School’s…Read More 
