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The best way to onboard a manager

The best way to onboard a manager

New research from Wharton management professor Henning Piezunka reveals a common mistake that businesses make when hiring a new manager into an established leadership team.

Who gets replaced by AI and why?

Who gets replaced by AI and why?

New research from Wharton marketing professor Pinar Yildirim reveals how AI can impact employee motivation when implemented in the wrong part of a team’s workflow.

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

2 min. read

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

1 min. read

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?
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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.

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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.