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Wharton School
John Legend receives Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement Award
John Legend receives Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement Award
Legend, an undergraduate alumnus, was recently honored by Venture Lab, the University’s entrepreneurship center, during a virtual livestream event.
How biases influence CEOs throughout their careers
How biases influence CEOs throughout their careers
Wharton finance professor Marius Guenzel explores the systemic and human elements of behavioral bias in the career phases of CEOs.
The impact of providing hands-on, interactive projects
The impact of providing hands-on, interactive projects
With inventXYZ, President’s Innovation Prize winner Nikil Ragav has created a high-tech curriculum for high school to motivate future problem-solvers.
How to make financial markets a force for good
How to make financial markets a force for good
In “Making Money Moral,” authors Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg explore a burgeoning movement of bold and ambitious innovators.
Penn announces five 2021 Thouron Scholars
Penn announces five 2021 Thouron Scholars
Four seniors and a 2019 graduate have received a Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship winner receives tuition for as long as two years, as well as travel and living stipends, to earn a graduate degree there.
Building diversity into the venture capital ecosystem
Building diversity into the venture capital ecosystem
A conversation with Wharton’s Stephanie Creary on the institutional roadblocks and funding gaps faced by minority and female founders.
The joy and power of improvisation
The joy and power of improvisation
With The Unscripted Project, President’s Engagement Prize winners Philip Chen and Meera Menon create an improv curriculum and bring teaching artists to Philadelphia public school students.
Regardless of socioeconomic status, Black communities face higher gun homicides
Regardless of socioeconomic status, Black communities face higher gun homicides
In a Wharton study, chair of the Statistics Department Dylan Small says reasons for the disparity include institutional racism, underinvestment in communities, and housing segregation.
Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates
Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates
Texts with “reserved for you” messaging boosted flu vaccine rates by up to 11%.
Five Penn faculty named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows
Five Penn faculty named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows
The fellowship recognizes extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of scientific leaders.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
The website Findashot.org may be a better way to get a COVID-19 vaccine appointment
David Newell, an MBA student in the Wharton School, built a website that finds available COVID-19 vaccine appointments. “The idea is to aggregate appointment availability, not just inventory availability, which a lot of the projects out there and even the CDC’s partner vaccinefinder.org are focused on,” he said.
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CNN
High ground, high prices
Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School spoke about climate gentrification, in which higher-ground neighborhoods will become more desirable due to rising sea levels. “You don’t need to see bars opening up with bartenders wearing suspenders and handlebar mustaches to be seeing gentrification,” he said.
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Los Angeles Times
Privacy or planet—The tough choice of doing away with paper receipts
John Zhang of the Wharton School said that for businesses, digital receipts are “a cheap way to get your email address and to build their database to track your shopping habits. As a result, firms can do all kinds of targeted promotions on the cheap, and you will receive all kinds of junk emails.”
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The New York Times
Where have all the houses gone?
Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School spoke about the pandemic’s impact on the housing market. “The supply side is really tricky,” he said. “Who wants to sell a house in the middle of a pandemic? That’s what I keep coming back to. Is this a time you want to open your house up to people walking through it? No, of course not.”
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MarketWatch
Opinion: Would you want your parents to live in a nursing home owned by private equity?
Atul Gupta of the Wharton School co-led a study that explored how private equity investments affect nursing home patients. It revealed a 10% increase in mortality for Medicare patients in such facilities.
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