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Apr 13, 2021
What defines a "wow" depends on the shopper and type of store, but hassle-free customer support is at the top of the list, according to a recent study from Wharton's Jay H. Baker Retailing Center and The Verde Group.
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Apr 13, 2021
Strong governance and risk mitigation are crucial for artificial intelligence to improve business and societal outcomes, according to a recent paper published by Wharton AI for Business.
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Apr 13, 2021
A new study that finds older Americans are struggling with debt underscores the importance of financial literacy, says Wharton's Olivia S. Mitchell.
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Apr 12, 2021
Spending on stronger infrastructure and higher taxes will crowd out private investment, ultimately reducing GDP, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
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Apr 06, 2021
Technology firms are the drivers of disruption across industries, but things will play out differently for automobiles, according to Wharton's John Paul MacDuffie.
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Apr 06, 2021
In an interview with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM, Wharton's Iwan Barankay explains the perils of Zoom fatigue and what companies can do to combat it.
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Apr 06, 2021
Conspicuous consumption is giving way to a new ethos called minimalist luxury. Wharton's Pinar Yildirim and John Zhang explain how the makers of high-end goods can respond to this market trend.
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Apr 05, 2021
Wharton finance professor Michael R. Roberts explains the value of shopping for a mortgage and clarifies the trade-offs homebuyers need to weigh when there is no obvious choice.
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Mar 30, 2021
Wharton's Katherine Klein talks with Stefanie Thomas from Impact America Fund, which has raised $55 million to invest in companies that benefit underserved communities.
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Mar 30, 2021
During a recent panel discussion hosted by Wharton Dean Erika James, three Wharton faculty examined the pandemic's reverberating effects on women in the workplace.
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Mar 30, 2021
At the recent Penn/Wharton Women in Data Science conference in Philadelphia, Kate Johnson, president of Microsoft US, spoke about her career journey, managing and leading change, and Microsoft's efforts to drive diversity and inclusion.
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Mar 29, 2021
Black and low-income students face the highest reduction in lifetime earnings from school closures, according to a report from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
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Mar 23, 2021
The post-pandemic hybrid workplace will create a power differential that needs to be managed carefully. Wharton's Martine Haas explains how to minimize the risks.
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Mar 23, 2021
Author Paula Davis talks about her new book from Wharton School Press, ‘Beating Burnout at Work,' and how teams, and their leaders, can create cultures that prevent burnout.
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Mar 23, 2021
During a recent Leading Diversity@Wharton event, Wharton's Stephanie Creary spoke with two DEI experts from luxury firms about how the industry can truly commit to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Mar 22, 2021
In this piece, Wharton marketing professor and neuroscientist Michael Platt and his co-authors shed light on the neural basis of perspective taking and why it may lead to more innovation and better business outcomes.
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Mar 16, 2021
Financial technology firms are facing a crucial time with regulators questioning whether to grant them charters to offer banking services with fewer regulatory requirements. But allowing Big Tech and other large corporations to set up banks could have significant consequences, says Wharton's David Zaring.
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Mar 16, 2021
Allowing Big Tech and other large corporations to set up banks would fundamentally alter the banking landscape in the U.S., says Wharton's David Zaring in an interview with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM.
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Mar 15, 2021
A new study led by experts from Wharton and Penn offers three practical suggestions to get those who are hesitant about vaccines off the fence.
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Mar 15, 2021
In this opinion piece, Wharton finance professor Michael R. Roberts suggests that some homeowners should consider investing any extra money they have rather than using it to make additional mortgage payments.
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Mar 15, 2021
College enrollment by low-income students hinges more on college preparedness than on financial constraints, new Wharton research finds.
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Mar 09, 2021
Centralization is key to streamlining the process and speeding up vaccination efforts, says Wharton's Gad Allon in an interview with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM.
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Mar 09, 2021
Doubling COVID-19 vaccine doses to 3 million a day could boost U.S. employment and GDP, according to a Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis.
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Mar 09, 2021
Essential workers have a 55% greater chance of contracting COVID-19, compared with nonessential workers, according to a recent study by Independence Blue Cross and Penn that also points to the potential benefits of business closures.
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Mar 08, 2021
We asked Wharton faculty to tell us what they see in store for the rest of 2021 -- including the economy, remote work, health care, retail, and more.
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Mar 02, 2021
Regulators looking to prevent stock price manipulation must not harm the price discovery process that indexers depend on, says Wharton's David Musto in an interview with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM.
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Mar 02, 2021
Firms benefit when consumers feel they "own" a product. But in the sharing economy, goods and services are becoming more experiential and impermanent. New research co-authored by Wharton's Deborah Small explains this shift and offers marketing strategies to help preserve that feeling of "mine."
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Mar 02, 2021
A new machine-learning approach to COVID-19 testing that was developed by Wharton's Hamsa Bastani and other experts has produced encouraging results in Greece by identifying more asymptomatic, infected travelers than what conventional random testing would have achieved.
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Mar 01, 2021
In this Nano Tool for Leaders® from Wharton Executive Education, Wharton's Maurice Schweitzer explains two powerful ways to control anxiety and its negative effects.
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Feb 23, 2021
CEOs often have a tailwind of strong performance and are expected to be more rational and objective than others. However, they are equally vulnerable to biases, according to a new research co-authored by Wharton's Marius Guenzel.
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Feb 23, 2021
Policymakers are exploring every option to get money in the hands of people to help them cope during the pandemic. But premature, penalty-free withdrawals from retirement accounts could prove too costly down the road, says Wharton's Olivia S. Mitchell.
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Feb 23, 2021
The devastating terrorist attack on the World Trade Center nearly 20 years ago left behind painful memories and powerful lessons about how leaders must learn and adapt, write Gregory P. Shea and his co-authors in this opinion piece.
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Feb 22, 2021
Scholars David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely talk with Wharton's Katherine Klein about why the business case for diversity takes pressure off leaders to create a real culture of inclusion.
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Feb 16, 2021
During a recent Leading Diversity@Wharton event, Wharton's Stephanie Creary spoke with venture capital experts about the funding gap faced by minority and female founders.
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Feb 16, 2021
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Think Again,' Wharton's Adam Grant explains why success often comes from surrounding ourselves with "disagreeable" people - skeptics who can point out blind spots, question assumptions and help us overcome our weaknesses.
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Feb 15, 2021
A new book by Wharton's Raphael ("Raffi") Amit and Christoph Zott from IESE Business School guides business leaders on how to step back from the pandemic chaos and craft a winning business model innovation strategy for the long game of disruption.
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Feb 15, 2021
A new study co-authored by Wharton's Hummy Song found the number of mammograms declined sharply during the first few months of the pandemic, creating a queue that still hasn't cleared.
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Feb 09, 2021
Coordinated attacks on a stock could impair a firm's ability to raise capital and lower its valuation, says Wharton's Itay Goldstein.
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Feb 09, 2021
A new book from Wharton School Press explores a growing movement to unlock private-sector investments in new ways to solve global problems.
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Feb 08, 2021
The Biden relief package leaves little headroom for economic growth and job gains, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
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Feb 08, 2021
CEO succession is routine in business, but Amazon isn't like other companies. Wharton's Mike Useem and Barbara Kahn discuss the transition of Jeff Bezos.
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Feb 08, 2021
In the first installment of the Wharton School Press "Meet the Authors" interview series, Michael Platt, a Wharton marketing professor, Penn neuroscience professor and director of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, talks with Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader about his new book, The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire
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Feb 02, 2021
In this Nano Tool for Leaders® from Wharton Executive Education, Wharton's Katherine Klein offers a strategy for getting favorable results from performance evaluations.
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Feb 02, 2021
Millions tune into the NFL Super Bowl each year to watch the game's entertaining advertisements. A new study co-authored by Wharton's Jonah Berger shines light on the emotions that make people more likely to share what they see.
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Feb 01, 2021
In this opinion piece, Robert Field, Anthony W. Orlando, and Arnold J. Rosoff argue that the Biden administration should make genetic data privacy a top priority.
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Jan 29, 2021
Regulators have no clear options in controlling social media-led speculation in stock prices, say Wharton experts.
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Jan 26, 2021
Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger explains why songs with the word "you" are more successful with consumers, and what that could mean for other products.
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Jan 25, 2021
On average, universities in the U.S. capture 16% of the value they help create in the startups spawned by their research. Two new papers co-authored by Wharton's David Hsu look at what academic institutions need to consider when it comes to commercializing their IP.
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Jan 25, 2021
Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink of Google.org talks with Wharton's Katherine Klein about how the tech giant's philanthropic arm leverages financial and human capital to help nonprofits around the world.
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Jan 20, 2021
As part of the Leading Diversity at Work series, Wharton's Stephanie Creary talks to IBM Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Carla Grant Pickens about the company's efforts to create change both inside and outside the office.
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Jan 19, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden's proposed stimulus package is comprehensive and will likely help to move the economy forward, but direct payments could be better targeted to those in need, say Wharton experts.
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Jan 19, 2021
The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was a "watershed moment" for corporations to reexamine their role in democracy, Wharton's Michael Useem says in an interview with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM.
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Jan 19, 2021
In their new book, Wharton's Karl Ulrich and Lele Sang explore the successes and failures of several well-known companies, including Amazon, in their attempts to enter China's market of 1.4 billion consumers.
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Jan 14, 2021
Wharton's Herbert Hovenkamp explains why far-right social media platform Parler faces an uphill court battle in proving that Amazon violated antitrust laws.
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Jan 12, 2021
New research co-authored by Wharton's Maurice Schweitzer reveals that most people don't really mind answering sensitive questions, and asking them doesn't leave a bad impression.
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Jan 12, 2021
In this opinion piece, David Erickson explores how the market for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) exploded in 2020 and what may happen in the future.
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Jan 07, 2021
John W. Rogers Jr., founder of Ariel Investments, talks with Wharton's Stephanie Creary about his lifelong effort to get more people of color into boardrooms and key leadership roles.
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Jan 07, 2021
John W. Rogers Jr., founder of Ariel Investments, talks with Wharton's Stephanie Creary about his lifelong effort to get more people of color into boardrooms and key leadership roles.
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Dec 22, 2020
During a recent Leading Diversity@Wharton event, Wharton's Stephanie Creary spoke with three authors whose books offer deep insights into diversity and inclusion in business.
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Dec 22, 2020
A lack of data has hampered knowledge of how and whether impact investors achieve their goals. Wharton's Katherine Klein talks with Harvard's Shawn Cole and Chicago Booth's Robert Gertner about how their collaboration will change that.
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Dec 22, 2020
Venture accelerators see higher numbers of quality startups in countries that lower entry, growth, and exit barriers, according to new research by Wharton's Valentina Assenova.
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Dec 21, 2020
Instead of mandating vaccination, firms should remove any barriers to access and apply other forms of encouragement, says Wharton's Iwan Barankay.
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Dec 21, 2020
Instead of mandating vaccination, firms should remove any barriers to access and apply other forms of encouragement, says Wharton's Iwan Barankay.
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Dec 21, 2020
Data collected from genetic testing kits can help marketers customize products for consumers. But a new Wharton study raises red flags over ethics, privacy and the potential for misinformation.
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Dec 15, 2020
The worldwide distribution of the first vaccines to fight COVID-19 will require unprecedented teamwork, says Wharton's Gad Allon.
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Dec 15, 2020
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's promise to forgive student debt might have the unintended consequence of worsening economic inequality, according to new research co-authored by Wharton's Sylvain Catherine.
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Dec 15, 2020
While DoorDash and Airbnb successfully completed their much-anticipated IPOs this past week, there has been a lot of scrutiny on how these IPOs were priced and subsequently "popped." Wharton's David Erickson explains what could be done to remedy the disconnect.
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Dec 14, 2020
Alan Bowser, co-head of the Americas Region at Bridgewater Associates, talks with Wharton's Stephanie Creary about the importance of mentorship and making opportunities available to minorities in the workplace.
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Dec 08, 2020
New research from Wharton's Santiago Gallino and Robert Rooderkerk of Erasmus University offers companies practical advice on how to develop new products that are ready to compete in an omnichannel world.
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Dec 08, 2020
Eroded stock valuations reflect investor concerns that talent shortages hurt productivity and innovation, says Wharton's Britta Glennon.
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Dec 08, 2020
Wharton's Robert Hughes explains the moral and social benefits of universal health care and how such a system might look in the U.S.
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Dec 07, 2020
Former NFL linebacker Kirk Morrison and talent agency founder Phillip Sun talk to Wharton Dean Erika James about how their industries are reacting to pressure for greater diversity and inclusion.
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Dec 01, 2020
As part of the Leading Diversity@Wharton speaker series, Dean Erika James and AT&T Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Corey Anthony spoke with Wharton's Stephanie Creary about inclusive leadership in times of crisis.
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Dec 01, 2020
Headlines about India's encouraging economic indicators mask the ground realities, according to new research co-authored by Wharton's Heather Schofield.
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Dec 01, 2020
For many small businesses such as restaurants, the denial of "business interruption insurance" for COVID-19 losses spells bankruptcy and closure. Public-private partnerships could help provide a solution, says Wharton's Howard Kunreuther.
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Dec 01, 2020
A small percentage of city dwellers are flocking to the suburbs during the coronavirus pandemic, but that won't reverse a 20-year trend toward urbanization in the U.S., according to Wharton's Jessie Handbury.
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Nov 24, 2020
Behavioral scientists at Wharton and Penn are studying the best communication strategies that nudge people into getting vaccinated for the flu, with implications for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nov 24, 2020
Encouraging news on a COVID-19 vaccine, "a good election outcome" and strong liquidity are positive signs for the year ahead, says Wharton's Jeremy Siegel.
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Nov 23, 2020
Data analytics is at an inflection point as growing concerns about security, privacy, bias and regulation bump up against the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Nov 23, 2020
Wharton's Katherine Klein talks to Vital Farms investor Karl Khoury and CEO Russell Diez-Canseco about how stakeholders benefit from the ethical pursuit of profit.
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Nov 17, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden's proposals promise wide-ranging economic gains, but the pandemic will continue to be a huge variable in the near term, according to analysis by the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
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Nov 17, 2020
Strong leadership, constant communication and cross-sector partnerships can help corporations deepen their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, according to experts who joined Wharton's Beyond Business discussion series.
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Nov 17, 2020
Strong leadership, constant communication and cross-sector partnerships can help corporations deepen their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, according to experts who joined Wharton's Beyond Business discussion series.
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Nov 16, 2020
Wharton's George Day and Paul Schoemaker examine three key principles that underpin organizational vigilance and show how Adobe's leaders used them to great effect.
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Nov 16, 2020
From motivating employees to maintaining healthy habits, games can help us achieve our goals in surprising ways, say the authors of the revised and updated edition of ‘For the Win.'
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Nov 10, 2020
Wharton Interactive co-founders Sarah Toms and Ethan Mollick are creating the next generation of game-based learning experiences that democratize education and make lessons more memorable.
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Nov 10, 2020
The majority of employees working from home during the pandemic are just as productive, but they aren't collaborating as effectively as before, according to a new study overseen by Wharton management professor Michael Parke.
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Nov 09, 2020
New research by experts at Wharton and elsewhere provides a theoretical framework for how ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing affects stock prices and corporate behavior.
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Nov 09, 2020
Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord will be a positive step, but options for the new administration will be limited to regulatory tweaks without control of Congress, says Wharton's Brain Berkey.
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Nov 03, 2020
While overtly fake news generated by bogus websites can be dangerous, there's greater harm in subtle misinformation that spreads through mainstream media, according to new research.
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Nov 03, 2020
Small business formations are booming during this pandemic, but startups need buffers against a second or third wave of the virus, says Wharton's Ethan Mollick.
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Nov 03, 2020
A lead-lag pattern between home sales volumes and prices is delaying a day of reckoning for homeowners in Florida's coastal communities, a Wharton study warns.
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Nov 02, 2020
The increasing attention being paid to artificial intelligence raises important questions about its integration with humanity, according to David De Cremer, author of the book ‘Leadership by Algorithm.'
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Oct 27, 2020
Not everyone is a born leader, but a new book by Wharton's Michael Platt says that neuroscience can provide the tools to become one.
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Oct 26, 2020
Research by Wharton's Valentina Assenova shows that disadvantaged entrepreneurs can grow their companies significantly in terms of revenue and employment by working with incubators.
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Oct 26, 2020
The challenges faced by Black entrepreneurs looking for investors was the topic of the first session in Wharton's new Beyond Business lecture series, hosted by Dean Erika James.
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Oct 23, 2020
Wharton's Katherine Klein talks to Adasina founder and CEO Rachel Robasciotti about her firm's mission to change the planet through more ethical investing.
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Oct 23, 2020
Wharton's Katherine Klein talks to Adasina founder and CEO Rachel Robasciotti about her firm's mission to change the planet through more ethical investing.
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Oct 20, 2020
Retail sales will see modest growth over a holiday season marked by the uneven spending habits of consumers affected by the pandemic, according to experts.
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Oct 20, 2020
Rooting out racial bias in law enforcement starts with better data, according to Wharton's Dean Knox and Princeton's Jonathan Mummolo. Their research is bringing hard science to the emotional debate on police reform.
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