Penn in the News

With some 13,000 graduate schools of business across the globe, the M.B.A. degree has clearly become a commodity. Even among elite schools, courses and case studies are pretty much water from the same well (i.e., finance, operations, marketing, accounting). So how do you choose? By using the rankings? Which ones? The Economist’s? Businessweek’s? The Financial Times’s?

Adam Grant and Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton school comment on how men tend to negotiate more aggressively than women and how a ban on salary negotiations could affect Reddit’s strategy to poach employees.

The University of California at San Diego received a $100 million pledge for its graduate school of management to help recruit faculty and provide scholarships. The school is already named for the donors, Evelyn and Ernest Rady, who gave $30 million in 2004 to create the Rady School of Management and almost $10 million more since then.

Amy Jordan of the Annenberg Public Policy Center writes about parents’ understanding of what is healthy or not when it comes to beverages that their children drink.

Yvette Sheline of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for studying how interleukin 6 contributes to depression.

Endowment-rich Stanford University is sweetening financial aid for middle- and upper-middle-income students who attend the Palo Alto-area campus. Under a new policy, the expected parental contribution for tuition will be waived for many undergraduates from families with incomes up to $125,000 a year -- up from the previous threshold of $100,000.

Carl June and Stephan Grupp of the Perelman School of Medicine are included in a documentary about the first pediatric patient to receive Penn’s modified T cell therapy for leukemia.

Rolling Stone retracted an explosive article detailing an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism concluded that the story was a “journalistic failure that was avoidable.” The Rolling Stone story was written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely and published last November under the headline “A Rape on Campus.” It sparked a national uproar over sexual misconduct at college campuses.

The University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi said Monday that the fraternity house will file a lawsuit against Rolling Stone, calling the magazine’s discredited reporting of an alleged gang rape by some of its members “reckless.” The lawsuit comes a day after Rolling Stone editors retracted a Nov.

Kennneth Shropshire of the Wharton School is interviewed about his book Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports.