Wharton School

On the court with Stina Almqvist

The Swedish fourth-year guard discusses adjusting to the American game, playing pro ball as a teenager, attending the Eagles parade, scoring 1,000 points, and what the future holds.

Greg Johnson

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management



In the News


CNN

How Trump’s trade war could quickly spiral out of control

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that it’s a toss-up whether the U.S. economy stumbles into a recession this year.

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USA Today

If a big inheritance is your retirement plan, don't get your hopes up

According to a 2021 analysis by researchers at the Wharton School, people are most likely to inherit between the ages of 56 and 65.

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Fortune

Trump’s chief economist has a blueprint to force countries to pay for tariffs without reigniting inflation, but he says the path to success is narrow

Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School says that the effects of a breakdown in trust between trading partners will become harder to control as the U.S. attempts to overhaul a global trade system developed over decades.

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Newsweek

Will Recession Spark a Housing Market Crash? What to Know

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says that a recession is likely to initially dampen housing demand due to insecurity about job prospects, although the decline of mortgage rates would likely prompt buying.

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Bloomberg

Banks Share Private Information to Snag Debt Trades, Study Says

A collaborative study by Christina Zhu of the Wharton School suggests that global banks are giving top clients private information to win corporate-bond trading business.

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