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Regulating ride-sharing
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Regulating ride-sharing

Wharton professors discuss New York City’s regulations on ride-hail companies such as Uber and Lyft, capping the number of vehicles on the road for one year, and requiring that drivers be paid a minimum wage.

Penn Today Staff

After recessions, why do some jobs disappear forever?
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After recessions, why do some jobs disappear forever?

Wharton finance professor Nikolai Roussanov explores the phenomenon of “job polarization,” and how it affects different skill sets in a post-recession job market.

Penn Today Staff

How ties to ethnic communities influence global firm expansion
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How ties to ethnic communities influence global firm expansion

When a company wants to expand beyond is own country’s borders, it often looks to areas populated by people of its nationality, a phenomenon studied in the banking industry by Exequiel Hernandez of the Wharton School.

Penn Today Staff

Tariff troubles: Will consumers feel the pinch?
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Tariff troubles: Will consumers feel the pinch?

Businesses are preparing for an economic downturn, while economists predict a reduction in corporate profits, fewer jobs, lower wages, and an agricultural bailout.

Penn Today Staff

When business blows up policy: How to regulate disruptions
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When business blows up policy: How to regulate disruptions

Wharton professor Sarah Light outlines the challenge of regulating traditional business disruptors such as Uber and Airbnb, two companies with platforms that have no precedent in the business sector for regulation.

Penn Today Staff

Vet students’ goat dairy aims to fill a nutrition gap in Gambia
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Briana Wilson, a third-year student at Penn Vet, is helping her peers establish a commercial goat dairy operation in Gambia.

Vet students’ goat dairy aims to fill a nutrition gap in Gambia

Briana Wilson plans on becoming a small-animal vet, but this summer she is immersing herself in far-flung ventures in faraway places at the Gambia Goat Dairy, helping to create a sustainable, commercial herd of milking goats.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The business of voting
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The business of voting

The chaos that befell the 2000 election sparked a revamping of the election technology industry. Wharton experts have drafted a report detailing the business side of modernizing voting technology.

Penn Today Staff

STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers
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As part of SMASH Wharton, rising 10th graders spend almost the entirety of their summer breaks on Penn’s campus, taking rigorous STEM and business courses.

STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers

As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House and taking classes at Huntsman Hall.

Lauren Hertzler

Leadership lessons from the Thai cave rescue
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Leadership lessons from the Thai cave rescue

Wharton's Michael Useem and Andrew Eavis from the International Union of Speleology discuss the combination of leadership, cooperation and altruism that freed the Thai soccer team.

Penn Today Staff

Why people don’t prepare for disasters
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Why people don’t prepare for disasters

Wharton's Robert Meyer discusses the lack of disaster preparedness individuals take in response to hurricane season, and the psychology of decision-making in relation to disasters.

Penn Today Staff