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Education, Business, & Law
What I’ve learned: Wharton’s Anita Summers
What I’ve learned: Wharton’s Anita Summers
Professor emeritus Anita Summers talks about her groundbreaking career in economics and public policy, and why integrity and evidence go hand in hand.
Indicators report shows escalating disparities for students of color and poor students
Indicators report shows escalating disparities for students of color and poor students
Report from The Pell Institute and PennAHEAD highlights stark differences in debt burden and benefits of higher education among ethnic groups that has significantly widened in recent years.
A one-stop shop for student-founded impact startups
A one-stop shop for student-founded impact startups
College Green Ventures, a recipient of Penn’s 2022 President’s Engagement Prize, finds and supports student-founded impact startups. The organization aims to be a national hub for social impact on college campuses.
Streamlining the health care supply chain
Streamlining the health care supply chain
William Danon and Luka Yancopoulos, winners of the 2022 President’s Innovation Prize, will offer a software solution to make the health care supply chain more efficient.
How price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
How price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
Teens who experienced gas price shocks of the 1970s drive less in later years, according to experts at Wharton and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Why more companies are standing up on social issues
Why more companies are standing up on social issues
From the war in Ukraine to anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida, companies are increasingly speaking out on social issues. Wharton management professor Stephanie Creary explains why silence is no longer golden for firms.
Wharton expert explains the crashing crypto market
Wharton expert explains the crashing crypto market
What does the cryptocurrency crash mean for investors? Wharton expert, Sarah Hammer talks with Penn Today about the digital asset.
Facing climate change with optimism
Facing climate change with optimism
In the course titled Climate Change & the Energy Evolution, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law students learn how to use their legal skills to decarbonize the world’s economy.
ToxiSense wins 2022 Venture Lab Startup Challenge
ToxiSense wins 2022 Venture Lab Startup Challenge
Four first-year students win the $50,000 Perlman Grand Prize for their sustainable water testing method through genetically engineering plants with bioluminescent properties.
Reactions to leaked SCOTUS decision on the future of Roe v. Wade
Reactions to leaked SCOTUS decision on the future of Roe v. Wade
According to a leaked draft published by Politico, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights. University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty offer perspectives.
In the News
The Independent
How the stock market could be last guardrails to corral Trump’s wildest whims
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that Donald Trump measured his success in his first term by the performance of the stock market.
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Business Insider
The hidden risk factor investors may be missing in stocks, bonds, and options
A study by Nikolai Roussanov of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that stocks, bonds, and options strategies could have more correlated risk than is evident on the surface.
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The Wall Street Journal
How AI could help bring down the cost of college
Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School explains how AI could bring down prices for more complex and expensive services like higher education.
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CNN
Grocery prices are high. Trump’s mass deportations could make matters worse
Zeke Hernandez of the Wharton School says that the U.S. economy is reliant on the supply of immigrant workers.
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Inc.
Why the return to office workforce is coming back less diverse
A study by the Wharton School found that changing job openings to remote work at startups increased female applicants by 15% and minority applicants by 33%.
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