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Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities.
In her four years as a Wharton undergrad, Sahiba Baveja has two health care startups on her resumé, along with entrepreneurship courses, and a stint in the Venture Lab.
Focused on tackling climate change, 2018 Penn graduate Krish Mehta, from Mumbai, has been awarded a 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate studies and global leadership training at Stanford University.
The American Economic Association has named Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School as a 2023 Distinguished Fellow for her seminal research on pensions, Social Security, retirement, and financial literacy.
A new paper co-authored by Wharton’s Lu Liu looks at why homeowners become caught in a so-called “mortgage lock-in” and how that impacts their ability to move.
The Environmental Innovations Initiative announces a third round of funded research communities to catalyze interdisciplinary research at Penn, investigating issues from regenerative agriculture to project-based learning for global climate justice.
The gift is one of the largest ever to the School. It will support student scholarships, a cross-University graduate concentration, and cross-disciplinary programming.
Procrastination is a near-universal human behavior, with some surprising benefits. But when the time comes to focus, Ryan Miller of the Weingarten Center offers tips and time-management tools.
For Wharton MBA women, WWIB serves as a guide for confident future leaders. Madeline Donoghue, WWIB’s vice president of admissions, and Krishna Shah, WWIB’s co-president, discuss how the group fosters relationships and community.
The Penn GSE professor studies how policies that are supposed to be race-neutral, like school funding formulas, truancy policy, or special education, end up failing marginalized groups, and urges a look at the results of past policies to better inform moving forward.
David Zaring of the Wharton School writes that the SEC can establish a procedural rule that recognizes a right to remove, preserving the administrative powers of regulatory agencies.
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A study by Matthew Killingsworth of the Wharton School finds that the ultra-rich are far happier than people earning $500,000 a year, who are themselves notably happier than low- and middle-income earners.
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In their book “The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap,” Harbir Singh and Michael Useem of the Wharton School recommend critical steps for the success of new business founders.
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Matthew Killingsworth of the Wharton School says that the positive association between money and well-being continues far up the economic ladder.
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In his new book, “The Truth About Immigration,” Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez of the Wharton School says that immigrants have unexpected and overwhelmingly positive effects on the communities they join.
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