Business

The post-COVID workplace: Will employees be safe?

Experts at Wharton weigh in on what to expect when employees return to the workplace post-pandemic, and whether to expect all employees can, and will, return to a traditional workplace.

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Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative

Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative. Led by AI expert and Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar, AI for Business will enable students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the next phase of digital transformation.

Dee Patel

The business of sports without fans

Wharton professor Adi Wyner led a live, online panel discussion on the future of sports in a post-pandemic world, and how leagues are pivoting their plans and business models to move forward without fans in attendance.

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Wired

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is waiting for Trump to keep his word—and set him free

Leeza Garber of the Wharton School says that legal questions can’t be neatly isolated from ethical and political ones.

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NBC News

Trump has promised lower interest rates. That will be largely out of his control

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve doesn’t have as much control over mortgage rates and longer-term loans as it used to.

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Salon.com

Why planning for retirement is hard, and what to do about it

Research by Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that low-income workers aren’t incentivized to learn about supplements to retirement income like IRAs and 401(k)s, since they tend to rely on and benefit more from fixed-income retirement sources like Social Security payments.

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Politico.com

Fed’s Powell says Trump can’t fire him

Christina Parajon Skinner of the Wharton School says that a presidential removal of the vice chair of the Federal Reserve wouldn’t necessarily be an affront to central bank independence.

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Bloomberg

What a reelected Trump can and can’t do to sway the Fed

Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School says that whether a president can remove the Federal Reserve chair is ambiguous because the law doesn’t explicitly provide “for cause” protection for the role.

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Bloomberg Law

JPMorgan opts out of political disclosure designation

The Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School has developed a new “model code” framework for companies to voluntarily disclose more about their political spending.

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