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Empowering workers while reducing waste in Mumbai
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Winners of a 2018 Penn President's Engagement Prize, Wharton seniors Svanika Balasubramanian and Peter Wang Hjemdahl will launch rePurpose, a digital marketplace that connects individual waste recyclers in India to larger recycling operations, boosting wages and diverting trash from landfills.

Empowering workers while reducing waste in Mumbai

In Mumbai, waste sorters represent a crucial yet marginalized labor pool, diverting would-be trash from landfills by sorting and selling recyclables. President’s Engagement Prize recipients Svanika Balasubramanian and Peter Wang Hjemdahl will connect these workers to larger recycling operations through a digital marketplace.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Building bridges
Penn Wharton China Summit 2018

Building bridges

The Penn-Wharton China Summit aligns students with the Chinese business community and opportunities for leadership through an event of their own making.
Shepherding discoveries from the lab to the pharmacy
Shepherding discoveries from the lab to the pharmacy

Shepherding discoveries from the lab to the pharmacy

In a new book, a biochemist, a sociologist, and an economist share insights into how biomedical discoveries become marketable innovations.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Global Seminar provides students with mind-opening experiences
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Penn Global Seminar provides students with mind-opening experiences

During spring break, 15 students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Wharton School, Management and Technology program, and School of Arts and Sciences traveled to Beijing and Shanghai to learn more about engineering and technology innovations in China.

Ali Sundermier

How psychology explains the itch for spring cleaning
Katherine Milkman

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

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How psychology explains the itch for spring cleaning

Wharton Professor Katherine Milkman teases out the “fresh start effect” of temporal landmarks like the first day of spring, New Year’s Day, and other meaningful calendar dates.
Janet Yellen: What the Fed has learned since the financial crisis
Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve

Janet Yellen: What the Fed has learned since the financial crisis

Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen reflected on regulators’ missteps in preventing the 2008 financial crisis during a recent interview with Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel.

Candy Alfaro Welcomes First-Generation, Low-Income Students
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Candy Alfaro Welcomes First-Generation, Low-Income Students

Growing up in the small town of Soledad, Calif., college seemed like a far-off idea for Candy Alfaro.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Now a junior, she credits her parents, Mexican-born farm workers, for her determination to be the first in her family to go to college.​​​​​​​
An ‘honest broker’ for Washington
An ‘Honest Broker’ for Washington

Penn Wharton Budget Model’s Zheli He, Richard Prisinzano, Daniela Viana Costa, and Efraim Berkovich at their 220 S. 40th St. office. PWBM also has a site in Washington, D.C.

 

An ‘honest broker’ for Washington

Since its inception, the Penn Wharton Budget Model has been at the forefront of informing the nation’s budget, providing fast, in-depth, and transparent analysis for policy makers, the media, and the general public alike.

Lauren Hertzler

Penn senior takes up worldwide challenge of climate-change refugees

Penn senior takes up worldwide challenge of climate-change refugees

A political science major and student fellow at Penn's Perry World House is working with a team of student fellows to construct a website showing how cities deal with an influx of climate change refugees.