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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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It’ll take way more than all this to oust Elon Musk from Tesla
Michael Useem of the Wharton School recommended that growing companies should be open to recruiting new leaders. “The Tesla CEO and board would be wise to find the right multiplier now,” he said.
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Nixon had ‘Deep Throat,’ Trump has ‘Lodestar’: An archaic word becomes a resistance hashtag
Mark Liberman of the School of Arts and Sciences provided a linguistic history of the word ‘lodestar.’ “Going back to the 14th or 15th century, there’s a metaphoric use referring to not the pole star but to any principle or person or idea or goal used for guidance,” said Liberman.
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As animal-assisted therapy thrives, enter the cats
The School of Veterinary Medicine’s James A. Serpell weighed in on the lack of formal research about the efficacy of animal-assisted therapies. Serpell did note that it’s been well proven that social interaction does generally benefit human health.
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Millennium shuts down pioneering quant hedge fund
Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science discussed the closing of Prediction Company, a hedge fund. “Prediction was certainly far ahead of its time in realizing that many aspects of trading could be made not just quantitative but algorithmic,” said Kearns.
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Philly agencies plead for greater admissions of refugees, as deadline nears for new cap
The Law School’s Sozi Pedro Tulante spoke about his family’s immigration to Philadelphia in 1983. “Refugees are often seen as ‘the other,’” said Tulante. “It may seem like numbers, but those are real people with real lives.”
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Amazon hopes to grow in India with a Hindi website
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School discussed efforts by American retailers to break into Indian e-commerce. Guillen predicts that the market will reach $100 billion by 2020.
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The key lesson of Ayanna Pressley’s victory
The School of Arts and Sciences’ Dan Hopkins was cited for his book The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized. In it, he argues that “voters today are faced with very similar choices irrespective of where they live,” due in part to ideologically segmented media.
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How to keep your joints healthy
Brian Sennett of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed joint health and treatments.
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How seeing a political logo can impair your understanding of facts
Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Engineering and Applied Science led a team of researchers studying the impact of visible political logos on social learning.
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Lab-grown brain bits open windows to the mind—and a maze of ethical dilemmas
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine discussed the development of “minibrains” made from stem cells. The cerebral organoids cannot think or feel but are powerful tools for studying the human brain.