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Will recession spark a housing market crash? What to know
Newsweek

Will recession spark a housing market crash? What to know

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says that a recession is likely to initially dampen housing demand due to insecurity about job prospects, although the decline of mortgage rates would likely prompt buying.

The surprising truth about low performers
Business Insider

The surprising truth about low performers

Adam Grant of the Wharton School explains why it’s shortsighted to make employees fear for their jobs.

Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program
A group of students at Penn in class at a table.

David Bakalov, center, hopes to leverage his Fellows experience to develop new medical treatments.

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Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program

The Sugi and Millie Widjaja Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program matches 12 Penn students with mentors to learn what it takes to transform ideas into potential companies.

Ian Scheffler

‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’
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‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into transformative innovations and their effect on the populations they reach.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Winners of Penn’s 2025 Y-Prize holding their certificates.

The Stentix team (top) Summer Cobb and Amanda Kossoff, (bottom) Aarsha Shah and Elizabeth Jia, with judges (descending left) Matt Fitz-Henry, Jason Smith, Jennifer Gilburg, and Sasha Schrode, and (descending right) David Hsu, Gerald Lopez, and Dean Miller.

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

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Gen Z is ‘de-influencing’ on social media
Salon.com

Gen Z is ‘de-influencing’ on social media

According to a collaborative report by the Wharton School’s Baker Retailing Center, 75% of Gen Z consumers say that sustainability is more important to them than brand name when making purchase decisions.