Research from Paul Nary of the Wharton School finds that shareholders of publicly held firms fare better on average when divestitures are sold to corporate buyers rather than private equity firms.
The Wharton Global Family Alliance has become a leading resource for family offices and the broader wealth-management industry through research, roundtables, courses, special presentations, and workshops.
A co-authored study by Ph.D. student Neil Sehgal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude to put together a lesson plan for high school students.
Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that rental-assistance programs are a less expensive solution for homelessness than building new housing, with lessened administrative costs and burdens.
Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that there needs to be broader accountability for false statements in voluntary carbon markets.
Three Penn students are interviewed about their views on the presidential election and their decisions about where to register to vote.
Interim President J. Larry Jameson, Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney, Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine, and Olympic discus thrower and alumnus Sam Mattis are noted as some of the most influential people in Philadelphia.
PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín found that the most effective strategy to increase vaccination rates among children is to make it easier for families to get to doctor appointments.
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts has received the “genius grant” for her efforts to expose racism embedded in social-support programs, such as the child welfare system.