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Education, Business, & Law
Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
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.
Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
Wharton undergraduate Grace Gramins finds harmony between music production and business.
How will the workplace change in 2025?
How will the workplace change in 2025?
The Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli expects incremental changes in the workplace this year, a continuation of bigger trends that began during the pandemic.
Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education
Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education
Flores, a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, uncovers why Latinx students have tested as underperforming in academic language for decades due to education policy and societal constraints.
Forging pathways to careers in legislation and public policy
Forging pathways to careers in legislation and public policy
Penn Carey Law’s Legislative Clinic, now in its 28th year, offers students the chance to gain a new perspective by delving into the legislative process by which those laws are crafted.
Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice
Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice
PIK Professor Roberts designed her Penn Carey Law course around a reproductive justice framework, which extends far beyond access to abortion.
What’s the future of cities?
What’s the future of cities?
Before COVID-19, major U.S. urban centers were enjoying a resurgence. Now decreased occupancy has downtown economies and municipal budgets feeling the pinch. Wharton faculty research suggests that how cities navigate the next few years could be crucial.
The versatility of the JD/MPA degree
The versatility of the JD/MPA degree
Julian Lutz will graduate in May with an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in addition to his JD from the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
Power and possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court
Power and possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court
“Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court,” an article by Seaman Family University Professor Karen M. Tani, analyzes the 2023 Supreme Court term, including major controversies over presidential power, firearms regulation, reproductive rights, and the administrative state.
Wharton MBA student is out of this world
Wharton MBA student is out of this world
Jameel Janjua discusses his interest in spaceflight, the fastest aircraft he has flown, the effect of supersonic speed on the body, attending Wharton, and his first time in space.
In the News
WHYY (Philadelphia)
‘It’s all downside’: Philly’s housing market poised for pain
Morris Cohen of the Wharton School says that tariffs could prevent a viable profit from being made on certain low-end or lower-cost products used to construct affordable housing.
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Fortune
A former JPMorgan employee has accused the bank of obscuring the true size of its trading business to evade capital requirements
Itay Goldstein and David Zaring of the Wharton School comment on the Federal Reserve’s supervisory relationship with banks.
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Forbes
Algorithms drive management-free workplaces
Lindsey Cameron of the Wharton School says that a lack of direct human oversight can be both freeing and frustrating for workers.
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The Washington Post
What to know about the no-shopping ‘economic blackout’ on Feb. 28
Americus Reed of the Wharton School says that protest movements and collective organizing take time, especially as consumers deal with the normal pressures of life.
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The Washington Post
Want to debunk conspiracy theories? Try AI
A collaborative study by Katy Milkman of the Wharton School found that stock analysts didn’t update their forecasts after making earnings estimates that were far outside the consensus.
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