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  • 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award recipients announced

    Three Wharton-Lauder students are the recipients of the 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award. The $10k  cash award allows students to spend the summer concentrating on their entrepreneurial development in lieu of a summer internship. The students' projects concentrate on the sustainable diamond trade, an auto insurance brokerage for underserved populations, and a traumatic injury detection system venture owned and operated by military veterans.

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  • What Wharton faculty would have asked Mark Zuckerberg

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured hours of grilling from two Congressional committees to answer questions on why his company did not do a better job protecting user data. But many lawmakers struggled with technical terms or did not know how aspects of Facebook worked. What would have been some better lines of questioning? Wharton professors weigh in.

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  • Autonomous car crashes: who — or what — is to blame?

    Recent fatalities involving driverless cars have Wharton professors analyzing what may be just the beginning of safety testing, and inevitable accidents, from emerging autonomous vehicle technology. 

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  • Brands taking a stand on the NRA

    Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed, hosts of “Marketing Matters” on Wharton Business Radio, discuss the recent move by numerous companies to take a public stance against the NRA in light of recent shootings in America.

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  • Penn’s Women in Computer Science chapter holds its seventh annual and first-ever virtual FemmeHacks

    FemmeHacks is Philadelphia’s first all-women collegiate hackathon, hosted by Penn’s Women in Computer Science chapter to empower, educate, and inspire women and nonbinary folks across the nation. This year’s event in February went virtual for the first time.

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  • How shame helps build office culture

    Feelings of shame are so overwhelmingly negative that they act as a positive force for setting social norms and behavior. In her latest research, Wharton’s Rebecca Schaumberg explains why managers should pay closer attention to shame.

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  • Two Native American undergraduates thrive at Wharton

    At Penn, less than 1% of the student body identifies as Native American, but in the diverse schools and through Natives at Penn, Native students have forged a close-knit community. Wharton Stories speaks with Ryly Ziese, a finance concentrator and member of the Cherokee Nation, and Lauren McDonald, a finance and business analytics concentrator and member of the Onondaga Nation.

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