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How immigrant employees boost performance

Wharton’s Britta Glennon discusses how employing skilled immigrants can give organizations a competitive edge.

Despite shortages of materials, new housing construction is up

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School said high demand for housing is benefitting the new-construction market. However, she said, the added costs of material shortages and construction delays are being passed on to homebuyers.

Five years in, Lauder’s Africa Program advances global leaders

In 2016, the Lauder Institute’s Africa Program was created as a first-of-its-kind management program to ground global business dealings in an African focus.

Jobless for a year? That might be less of a problem now

Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School said some employers view applicants with long periods of unemployment as “damaged in some way,” but that the pandemic may change this. “For people who were just laid off because of Covid, will there be a stigma? I don’t really think so,” he said.

Ten years later, examining the Occupy movement’s legacy

For Jessa Lingel of the Annenberg School for Communication, a decade after Occupy Wall Street’s beginnings presented an opportunity for reflection, which she led this fall semester in a new course.

Experts predict what the housing market will look like in 2022

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School predicted that 2022 will bring lower housing prices and a slight increase in mortgage rates, which will moderate demand. She also said rental costs may increase.

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Should employers rethink what they’re offering workers?

Wharton’s Peter Cappelli talks about what we’re getting wrong about the Great Resignation and how the pandemic has rewired worker preferences.

How a perfect storm of factors led to ‘the mother of all supply chain disruptions’

Penn experts reflect on the global supply chain snags that have stressed systems during the fall and holiday season.

Elon Musk, other leaders sell stock at historic levels as market soars, tax changes loom

Daniel Taylor of the Wharton School said 2021 saw the most sales of stocks by insiders in a decade, in part due to an impending tax on adjusted gross income above $10 million. The tax savings have been “a powerful incentive to sell this year,” he said.

Crypto became ‘normalized’ in 2021. Here’s what to expect for the economy in 2022

Kevin Werbach, Susan Wachter, and Chris Geczy of the Wharton School are quoted on what’s to come in cryptocurrencies, plus real estate and inflation.

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