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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Wharton launches the first Ivy League crash course on the metaverse for business executives
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School outlines the potential of Wharton’s new class on the metaverse, which balances the possibilities of immersive VR with the reality of technological hype.
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90% of long-haul trucking may soon be self-driving. Are you ready to share the road with an autonomous 18-wheeler?
Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts & Sciences weighed in on the rise of automation in trucking. “A self-driving truck’s job is going to be fundamentally different,” Viscelli said. “We have a ton of pent-up demand for additional transportation services, and that starts with e-commerce.”
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‘Social comparison on steroids’: How social media is fueling the ‘Great Resignation’
Sigal Barsade of the Wharton School said the “Great Resignation” is driven in part by a shift in cultural attitudes toward work online. “When people say, ‘I’m going to quit my job,’ their family and peers aren’t responding ‘Have you lost your mind?’” she said. “They're actually saying, ‘Yeah, we feel that way too.’”
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2022 will be ‘even crazier’ for crypto, a Wharton professor says
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School says people shouldn’t be pushing to jump into holding crypto without better understanding it.
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Activision employees call for resignation of embattled CEO over handling of sexual harassment allegations
Jill Fisch of the Law School said, “In the current political environment, we’ve seen so many people step down or be forced to resign because of their potential knowledge of misconduct.” The current call for Activision’s CEO to resign, she said, is complicated by allegations that the company didn’t report misconduct to its board.
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Same vaccines, but different fatality rates: Why are some COVID outbreaks worse than others?
John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine said, “We’ve learned more in the last year and a half about human immunology and human vaccine responses than we probably learned in the previous several decades.”
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One year later: 15 ways life has changed since the onset of the COVID pandemic
Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School said the pandemic has accelerated the erosion of boundaries between work and home.
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The 2020 presidential election can survive coronavirus, but only if we take these 3 steps
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School offered guidance for running the 2020 presidential election during the pandemic. States should consider expanding options for voter registration and remote voting, as well as keep polling stations open for multiple days, he suggested.
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With states and the feds investigating Google and Facebook, the legal pressure is ramping up
PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp commented on states’ involvement in antitrust lawsuits against tech giants. “It’s ... not because the federal government isn’t doing enough,” he said. The states “want to get in the action, too.”
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Does diversity training work?: The Broadsheet
Edward Chang, a doctoral candidate at the Wharton School, spoke about a study he led on workplace diversity trainings. With team members from Wharton and the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn, the researchers found that those with the most power, “men and white people,” were the least receptive to new information about diversity. “A lot of companies are doing these things because they think they work, but we don’t have any evidence to support that,” said Chang.