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Wharton professor Adam Grant makes case for four-day week

At The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit, Adam Grant of the Wharton School says that a four-day workweek could increase employee well-being while improving the pace of work inside companies.

These 10 employers are still hiring tech and finance talent like crazy

Michael Roberts and Daniel Taylor of the Wharton School are noted for their new report in Wharton’s business journal, “How Analytics Is Changing Finance.”

Abortion, consumer choice and teaching hospitals: Experts weigh in on Fairview-Sanford merger

Lawton Robert Burns of the Wharton School says that the distance between two hospitals makes them unlikely to be engaging in anti-competitive conduct, though he questions the difference between the public and private rationale of their system executives.

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What the FTX collapse means for the cryptocurrency market

The rapid fall of FTX makes clear that better regulation is necessary to protect investors and reduce crime in the cryptocurrency market. Wharton’s Kevin Werbach explains why the path to regulation isn’t a straight line.

Have the anticapitalists reached Harvard Business School?

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that Wharton’s shift towards progressive courses like Kevin Werbach’s “Responsibility in Business” is a matter of economics, not ideology.

Iger’s Disney return is familiar, not always workable, storyline

Jill Fisch of Penn Carey Law says that returning CEOs might not appreciate the nuances of how changing political tides have affected the business.

Starting salaries for Wharton MBA grads are higher than ever as school’s tech pipeline grows

Penn’s MBA Careers Report shows that 99% of the Wharton School’s MBA graduates have full-time job offers, with a median starting salary of $175,000, the highest ever.

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Penn fourth-year Vikram Balasubramanian named George J. Mitchell Scholar

Fourth-year Vikram Balasubramanian, a double-major in statistics and philosophy in the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as one of 12 in the nation to receive a George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which covers one academic year of graduate study in Ireland or Northern Ireland.

Market Wrap: Investors continue to learn more about FTX’s mismanagement

In an essay, Francine McKenna of the Wharton School outlines the series of missteps in FTX’s auditing process.

There’s a hiring boom for diversity and inclusion managers. And the jobs have high turnover

Stephanie Creary of the Wharton School says that lack of support for CDOs speaks volumes about an organization’s unwillingness to do necessary strategic work.

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