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When employees feel slighted, they work less

When employees feel slighted, they work less

New research from Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli reveals how even the slightest mistreatment at work can result in lost productivity.

From Knowledge at Wharton

How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

Penn graduate students are learning that net zero is a systems challenge requiring fluency across disciplines, and why interdisciplinary teaching is climate action—including how it builds the human capital the clean energy transition demands.

From Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

2 min. read

Can reminders help you save more money?

Can reminders help you save more money?

Wharton’s Katy Milkman has led a megastudy on 2 million U.S. bank customers, showing that regular reminders to save encouraged people to put money aside.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients
Health care worker in mask stands at tablet with electronic medical record system.

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Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients

Wharton’s Leandro “Leo” Pongeluppe and colleagues found that HIV clinics in Malawi that switched from paper to electronic medical records saw an estimated 28% reduction in deaths in five years.

2 min. read

Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy hosts annual coaches workshop

Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy hosts annual coaches workshop

The annual Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy Coaches Workshop in December brought together head and assistant coaches and administrators from across Penn Athletics for an intensive series of sessions focused on communication, leadership identity, motivation, and character assessment.

Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts?
Traders at the New York Stock Exchange looking at monitors.

Wall Street rides an AI-fueled rally that has pushed major indices to new highs that’s driven largely by a handful of dominant tech firms. As enthusiasm around artificial intelligence reshapes markets and concentrates risk, questions are mounting about whether the surge reflects durable growth or the familiar shape of a speculative bubble. Wharton finance crises expert Itay Goldstein explains how bubbles form, why they can be so dangerous, and what today’s AI boom shares—and does not—with past market madness like the one described in “The Big Short.”
 

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Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts?

Wharton’s Itay Goldstein discusses financial bubbles, the mechanics of betting against them, and the risks facing the AI boom.

3 min. read

Perry World House launches Technology for America Project

Perry World House launches Technology for America Project

Penn’s Perry World House, Wharton School, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Penn Washington have launched The Tech for America project, which will work to develop policy and governance ideas to enable and accelerate technology development and adoption in the U.S.

Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
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Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms

Penn Carey Law professors Bill Burke-White and Ken Kulak attended COP30, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, and incorporated their experiences into their International Climate Change and Energy Law and Climate Change courses.

3 min. read

Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity
Two people standing on a brick pathway lined with trees in autumn, wearing formal business attire.

Patrick Harker and Sara Bachman, co-chairs of Penn Forward's Access, Affordability, and Value working group, on Locust Walk.

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Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity

As co-chairs of Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value working group, Sara Bachman, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Patrick Harker, a professor and dean emeritus of the Wharton School, discuss breaking down barriers and opening pathways.

7 min. read

The path from labs to the marketplace
A model of teeth used for dental practice.

“We saw vast, untapped potential in dental medicine, where translating and commercializing academic discoveries still lags,” says Hyun (Michel) Koo, CiPD’s co-founder and director. “With mounting evidence linking oral and systemic health, we can turn CiPD’s innovations into real-world solutions that reduce the burden of oral diseases and improve overall health.” 

(Image: Courtesy of William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management)

The path from labs to the marketplace

Penn’s William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management helps scientists develop their business acumen and access partners to help bring their breakthroughs to market.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

2 min. read