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Target is being held hostage by an anti-LGBTQ campaign
CNN

Target is being held hostage by an anti-LGBTQ campaign

Yoram Wind of the Wharton School says that Target’s Pride-themed merchandise campaign was trying to reach a growing LGBTQ market of customers and employees.

Wharton MBA graduate Nicholas Martin to teach at the Coast Guard Academy
Nick Martin stands against a red sandstone building, with foliage in the foreground

Originally from State College, Pennsylvania, Martin is an active-duty lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard. This fall, he’ll be teaching marketing to college students at the Coast Guard Academy.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

Wharton MBA graduate Nicholas Martin to teach at the Coast Guard Academy

Wharton MBA graduate and lieutenant commander Nicholas “Nick” Martin to teach marketing to “the next generation of officers.”

Kristina García

How AI will change the workplace
The Wall Street Journal

How AI will change the workplace

Peter Cappelli, Sonny Tambe, and Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School discuss how the worlds of work and artificial intelligence will intersect in the future.

Tapping the power of “you”
Psychology Today

Tapping the power of “you”

A study co-authored by Jonah Berger of the Wharton School suggests that songs and poems with “you” as the object trigger readers and listeners to cast a significant other, instead of themselves, as the participant.

Money doesn’t really affect happiness, and you shouldn’t care
Forbes

Money doesn’t really affect happiness, and you shouldn’t care

A study co-authored by Matthew Killingsworth of the Wharton School and PIK Professor Barbara Mellers finds that happiness increases when incomes rise above $75,000 for all but 20% of the population, the “least happy.”

Behind the backlash against Bud Light’s transgender influencer
The New York Times

Behind the backlash against Bud Light’s transgender influencer

According to Americus Reed of the Wharton School, companies recognize that a brand partnership could cause them to lose some customers but wager that it’s worth attracting new and potentially more loyal customers.