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How companies are redefining gender at work
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How companies are redefining gender at work

As more Americans identify as transgender, workplaces lack precedent for policies and accommodations, but are coming around to setting new norms.

Penn Today Staff

Can Venezuela recover from its crisis?
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Can Venezuela recover from its crisis?

Penn’s Dorothy Kronick discusses potential solutions to Venezuela’s deepening crisis, and asks whether sanctions are a good strategy.

Penn Today Staff

Penn announces eight 2019 Thouron Award winners
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The Penn 2019 Thouron Scholars include seven undergraduates and one 2018 graduate. Top row, from left: Sona Dadhania, Nicholas Escobar, Nick Joyner, Carson Kahoe. Bottom row, from left: Ryan Leone, Krishna Patel, Libby Rockaway, Hannah Sweeney.

Penn announces eight 2019 Thouron Award winners

Seven University of Pennsylvania seniors and a 2018 graduate have each won a Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Retail’s big mistake: Why slashing payroll cuts into profits
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Retail’s big mistake: Why slashing payroll cuts into profits

Retailers need to recognize that employees are their most valuable asset in an era of online competition, according to Wharton professors Marshall Fisher, Serguei Netessine, and Santiago Gallino.

Penn Today Staff

Why a 70 percent top tax rate will miss its mark
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Why a 70 percent top tax rate will miss its mark

Penn Wharton Budget Model’s Richard Prisinzano discusses the idea of raising the top marginal tax rate to as high as 70 percent on income over $10 million.

Penn Today Staff

Why workplace ghosting is on the rise
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Why workplace ghosting is on the rise

Wharton’s Peter Cappelli discusses ghosting, or disappearing without an explanation, in the workplace, and what it says about business etiquette and the shifting balance of power between employers and employees.

Penn Today Staff

Supreme Court decision a boon for truck drivers and, potentially, the gig economy
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A recent Supreme Court decision now allows transportation workers to sue their employers in class-action lawsuits. This verdict could have implications for truckers, but could also affect Uber drivers and others in the gig economy.

Supreme Court decision a boon for truck drivers and, potentially, the gig economy

Three Penn experts discuss the ruling, which gives transportation workers the ability to sue their employers in class-action lawsuits, sidestepping forced arbitration.

Michele W. Berger