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The Wharton Investment Competition Sparks a Passion for Finance

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This month's podcast guest may be familiar to some of our Wharton Global High School Investment Competition fans. Mojmír Zálešák and his team from Novy PORG high school in Prague, Czech Republic, took third place in last year's Global Finale, becoming one of the first teams from Europe to ever…Read More

10 Truths about Smart Financial Decision Making

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High school students are passionate about financial education. The demand for our Wharton Global Youth on-campus Essentials of Finance program prompted us to create a new online program for high school students this summer that we are calling Financial Decision Making. Students’ passion extends to spreading that financial knowledge. Our…Read More

Your Future Workplace: Intergenerational Offices, Neurodivergent Employees and Four-day Work Weeks

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What can you expect as an employee of the future? Science. Companies are using data and analysis for recruiting, compensation and performance evaluation because they believe it leads to better decisions about the people they hire and manage. Adam Grant, a professor and organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of…Read More

The Top Six Wharton High School Data Science Competition Teams Prepare for the Finals

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The Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI), with support from the Wharton Global Youth Program, is approaching the end game of the Wharton High School Data Science Competition: Soccer Playoff Predictions! Using comprehensive data from a simulated professional soccer league, teams of high school students from around the world have been crunching…Read More

Rice, Beans and Saffron: Fighting Hunger while Celebrating Community Diversity

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This month's Future of the Business World podcast will get you thinking about the deep connections between food and culture. Massachusetts high school junior Noah Sheldon is the founder of Inclusive Eats, a nonprofit that helps stock local food pantries with staples that people who are food-insecure in his diverse…Read More

Wharton Global Youth Hosts Five Virtual Events to Announce the 2024 Investment Competition Finalists

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Macroeconomics looks at the performance, structure, decision-making and behavior of an economy. This is a fitting concept to apply to last week’s Wharton Global High School Investment Competition semifinals, which involved the top 50 investment competition teams in the Wharton School investment challenge, as well as several of the judges…Read More

Essentials of Personal Finance High School Students Get the Full Wharton Experience

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On Friday, March 8, 2024, Wharton Global Youth Program hosted nearly 100 high school students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania during a “Campus Day” visit for three high schools participating in our Embedded Pre-baccalaureate Program, a partnership with the National Education Equity Lab. Students and teachers…Read More

The Essence of Managerial Thinking

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As you ponder the future workplace, what kind of manager do you hope to be? The answer lies in understanding what it means to think like a manager. During our Wharton Global Youth summer programs, Dr. Lori Rosenkopf, Wharton professor of management and vice dean of entrepreneurship, delivered a cross-program…Read More

A New Summer Program Invites High School Students to Learn Finance Online

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The Wharton Global Youth Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new online summer 2024 certificate program for high school students. Financial Decision Making introduces students to the basics of economics and explores fundamental financial principles, including spending, saving, borrowing and investing. Financial Decision…Read More

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