Future of the Business World Podcast: Recent Episodes
Wharton Global Youth Program
Future of the Business World is a monthly podcast from the Wharton Global Youth Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Inspired by the Program’s online course of the same name, Future of the Business World features teen entrepreneurs from around the world who are launching startups and products, and learning so much about business along the way. Each month, we will introduce you to a new teen innovator, discussing innovations, inspirations and the themes that define his or her entrepreneurship journey.
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On this episode of Future of the Business World, Roxanne Goldman from New York City shares the story of her startup, Stim Stacked, and how it is helping her and she hopes other women with ADHD to fidget and focus.
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In this episode of Future of the Business World, Yijia "Annie" Chen shares how her journey as a provincial-level tennis player in China has shaped her entrepreneurial mindset, intellectual curiosity, and approach to personal branding. Yijia illustrates how sports can be a powerful foundation for innovation—connecting athletics, data, media, and purpose to create impact both on and off the court.
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Are you ready for AI meets crayons? This month on Future of the Business World, Wharton Global Youth talks with Evan Perez, the co-founder of Color Your Life, a startup he launched with his friend Adrian that turns kids’ favorite family moments into personalized, AI-powered coloring books.
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This month, we speak with high school student Shaili Chudasama, a baker from California, U.S., who runs La Cherie Macarons. Soon after starting her business at age 13, Shaili’s community nicknamed her “the macaron girl” for her talent creating the delicate French pastries.
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A high school student from Lima, Peru, who attended an online Wharton Global Youth program shares her passion for entrepreneurship, financial education and empowering young people to create their own opportunities.
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Teen entrepreneur Ava Weissman is building Pickleball 4 a Purpose, a 501(c)(3) organization that is helping her to develop skills in networking, event planning, fundraising and relationship building.
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High school student Olivia Ospina Lerner discusses her work with MOCA Colombia, a nonprofit focused on helping marginalized agricultural communities in Medellin, Colombia, achieve self-sufficiency.
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The Said Project is exposing public school students in New York City to theater, dance, and the Broadways shows and stars that make it happen.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. Meet young innovators and changemakers who are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. Meet young innovators and changemakers who are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. Meet young innovators and changemakers who are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. Meet young innovators and changemakers who are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a leader in business education, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and change makers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and change makers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and change makers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and change makers are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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Kush Malpani Launches the Roadside Bookstore
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators are the future of the business world.
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A Wharton Global Youth Program interview with young fashion entrepreneur Cornel Suhartono.
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This month's conversation takes us to Southeast Asia. Jiaheng Yin is a teenage social entrepreneur from Singapore with a mission to help the migrant worker community through sustainability and social equity.
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Fruits of Labor, a nonprofit founded by high school student Carrie Lange, has gleaned 300 pounds of fruit from neighbors' trees and distributed them to the food insecure. We talk to Carrie about her entrepreneurial process, as well as her broader mission.
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High school students Divya Sijwali and Parth Puri share the story of Tyron (derived from the British spelling of tyre), a fashion footwear brand that crafts quality sandals and slippers out of old, discarded tires. Tyron’s business model is not only ecologically driven, but also economically powerful, with a commitment to pay a fair and consistent wage to the small-scale cobblers who craft their shoes.
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High school student Jasa Oliver has created a website “How to Support Ukraine”, a comprehensive hub of nonprofits benefiting Ukrainians — everything from charities that help the war effort and children, to those that support investigative journalism, the environment and animals.
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On this episode we meet Amiya Chokhawala, whose nonprofit works to inspire more young women to embrace STEM learning and define themselves as scientists, coders, engineers and mathematicians.
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Dashawn Sheffield of Newark, N.J., talks to Wharton Global Youth about his drive toward leadership and working to alleviate some of his peers' greatest challenges.
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Two high school students who connected in the Wharton Pre-Baccalaureate Program in the summer of 2021 have since put some entrepreneurial energy behind applying what they learned to the real world – specifically, to help small businesses. Gabriela Sirén and Henry Eisenhardt talk analytics, their new appreciation for small business, and making a dual-coast business partnership work.
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A discussion with high school senior Alana Andrews, a teen innovator from Virginia who has embraced entrepreneurship with her whole mind and heart. She exudes passion as she shares her story of launching The Swey Corporation, a healthy sports beverage business with products created by Gen Z for Gen Z that was inspired by her own pre-Diabetes diagnosis. Our conversation is full of great business-related experiences and insight, from product and flavor development to pricing and product launch.
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Any road warrior will tell you — it’s a jungle out there! The congested highways of our lives make it all the more critical to feel confident when you get behind the wheel and head toward the traffic. While many 16-year-olds are excited by the prospect of driving and the freedom it affords, getting your driver’s permit and license can also be daunting — for both teens and parents. Such was Sara Beniwal’s reality when her 16th birthday came around in January 2020. She and a group of entrepreneurially minded friends soon bonded over their driver’s license angst and turned to innovation, building VirtuRoad, a virtual reality driving simulator designed for nervous new drivers to practice driving in real-life scenarios.
The Wharton Global Youth Program recently caught up with Sara, a high school senior in California who also studied in our online Business Leadership Academy this summer, to talk about her VirtuRoad business journey.
This month, we welcome Vy Hoang to our Future of the Business World podcast (you can listen to the podcast by clicking the arrow above). Vy, a high school senior at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, tuned in from her home in Hanoi, Vietnam, to talk about her microfinance organization, […]
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One of the best examples of social entrepreneurship is the humble bake sale, presenting an enticing spread of cakes and cookies on a table and selling them to raise money for a cause, like your school’s senior class trip or donations to a local charity. For some, that one table […]
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Pet owners are familiar with the booming billion-dollar pet-technology market, including everything from smart pet doors to high-tech crates, beds, feeders, bowls and toys. Karan Dalal, a high school student and long-time dog owner, was no stranger to these clever gadgets, especially from his home in the heart of tech […]
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Clean energy, educational equity, climate action, financial literacy: these are only a few of the serious global issues that demand innovative solutions. If you want to read more of them, check out our list of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Today’s high school students, a.k.a. Generation Z, are thinking […]
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Moniola Odunsi, 16 and a junior at The Madeira School just outside of Washington, D.C. talks about the software platform she and her teammates are developing, as well as her passion for racial justice issues and her belief that “passive activism is not going to produce change.”
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A few months back, Sruthi Rayaprolu and Ujjayi Pamidigantam, two high school seniors living on opposite sides of the United States, reached out to let us know about their book for young entrepreneurs: “How to Catapult Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide.” Turns out, both of them are entrepreneurs in their […]
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Naomi Porter, our March 2021 Future of the Business World podcast guest, embraced entrepreneurship when she was only 11 years old with her first venture, Spice It Up. Now 16 and a high school junior in California, Naomi is using her business experience and Girl Scouts of the USA platform to […]
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On this month’s episode of Future of the Business World, Rylan Robb, a high school student from Mozambique, Africa, shares his experience of launching an entrepreneurial idea as part of a team. While attending the Wharton Global Youth Program’s Future of the Business World online course, Rylan and his co-founders […]
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In the past year, Christine Sinn, our guest on this month's Future of the Business World podcast, took to heart some recent advice about thinking like an entrepreneur in times of crisis. In an article on that topic, Wharton professor Lori Rosenkopf told us: “Being confined during the pandemic is […]
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In our fourth Future of the Business World podcast episode, we travel to Bogota, Colombia by way of Florida. High school student Camilo Saiz, who has a passion for finance, moved to the U.S. from Colombia when he was 12, and yet he never lost his connection to and compassion […]
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In September 2020, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched its first podcast series, Future of the Business World, which explores the motivations and creations of young entrepreneurs from around the world. The project was inspired by the program's Future of the Business World online course, launched in the summer of 2020. Be […]
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In September 2020, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched its first podcast, Future of the Business World, which explores the motivations and creations of young entrepreneurs from around the world. In case you missed it, be sure to listen to our debut episode with Rucha Mehendale. This month, we travel […]
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Starting with this episode, the Wharton Global Youth Program is excited to launch a new audio podcast, Future of the Business World. Inspired by an online course of the same name that the Global Youth team created for high school students when summer 2020 went virtual, Future of the Business […]
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Jordan Williams, 21, is a senior at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. While sophomores in high school in Atlanta, Georgia, Williams and his friend founded the Young Moguls Brand, an urban clothing line that promotes entrepreneurship. Williams’ venture inspired his journey to Wharton, where he has learned so much […]
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McKinsey & Company’s practices have been in the news of late, in part because South Bend, Indiana, mayor and U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg worked for the big-name consulting firm after graduating from Oxford in 2007. The global company, which has more than $10 billion in revenues, 27,000 employees and […]
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Princess Aghayere has been called the “silent weapon” on the University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team. In her position as forward, she had a great season this year, which happened to be her final year as a college senior. Aghayere, who lived in Nigeria, Africa, until she was 10, discovered […]
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Knowledge@Wharton High School's Emmie Stratakis sat down recently with Penn junior Julia Coquard to discuss her teen years as a well-known beauty blogger and makeup artist in Sweden through her blog Makeup Is Art, which she ran from 2010 to 2016. After getting her makeup done (check it out!), Emmie […]
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Not every teenager gets to add experience working for Silicon Valley car maker Tesla to his LinkedIn profile. Dylan Diamond, a sophomore at Wharton and owner of Diamond Apps, LLC, is one of the few. Diamond, who built his first app while at Staples High in Connecticut, U.S., has been […]
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Bjarke Gotfredsen and Judi Sandrock, co-founders of XinaBox, a company in South Africa that makes modular hardware to inspire hands-on student STEM education, were traveling in the U.S. this holiday season and stopped by Philadelphia’s Wharton campus for a visit. KWHS managing editor Diana Drake sat down with Gotfredsen to […]
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A few weeks ago, Gimlet Media’s renowned podcast “The Pitch” — dubbed the best business podcast on startup life by Fortune — hosted its first-ever live show on the road on the Wharton School's campus. Three Philadelphia startups led by young entrepreneurs pitched their businesses in front of two well-known venture […]
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Not that long ago, Venezuela was the fastest-growing economy in Latin America. Today, it is a country in deep crisis. KWHS interviewer Emmie Stratakis recently sat down with Wharton student and Venezuela native Eugenia Carmona to discuss the economic and humanitarian challenges facing Eugenia's family and friends back home, and what she sees for […]
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If you have played or even seen Pokemon Go, then you’re already familiar with one of the hottest high-tech concepts around, augmented reality or AR. Augmented reality mixes the physical with the virtual, superimposing a computer-generated image onto the view of the real world so that it becomes an interactive […]
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Our high school-aged readers – better known as Generation Z – intimately understand their world, navigating “Local Twitter” and knowing how to get friends’ attention with their latest “Snap Story.” And then there’s the rest of the world. While many companies and brands think they understand the best way to reach Gen […]
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As we looked around to feature interesting summer internships on KWHS, we were happy to discover one right in our backyard. The University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – commonly called the Penn Museum – is the largest university museum in the U.S. and features collections of artifacts […]
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Knowledge@Wharton High School is often curious about the business talent right at our doorstep – namely undergraduate students who are exploring and pioneering in all areas of entrepreneurship and leadership. When we heard about rePurpose, a digital recyclable waste marketplace created by undergrads Peter Wang Hjemdahl, Svanika Balasubramanian and Aditya Siroya, we […]
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Entrepreneur and high school freshman Emily Scott, 14, recently joined KWHS interviewer Anthony Williams in the studio to discuss her invention, the Clip and Zip Backpack. Scott is taking many lessons away from her first business experience, including the emotional roller coaster of crowdfunding a business idea through an online […]
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David Stillman and his Generation Z son, Jonah Stillman, who is 17 and a senior at Minnetonka High School in Minnesota, have written a book to help sort out the generational gap between younger people. They discussed their book, Gen Z @ Work: How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace, on the […]
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Katlyn Grasso is the founder of GenHERation, a network and online platform that seeks to empower young women by, in part, connecting them with companies and mentors. As CEO, Grasso has created the GenHERation Summer Leadership Series, as well as Discovery Days, immersive summer day trips that provide high school […]
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Have you heard of the Impossible Burger? As you can see from the photo, it looks (and many say tastes) a lot like your favorite fast-food beef patty with all the fixin’s, but it’s actually very different. Offered on a handful of menus in the U.S.– at restaurants like Public […]
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Kayvon Asemani, a native of Baltimore and a 2014 graduate of the Milton Hershey School for at-risk youth in Hershey, Pa., has a fascinating story to tell. While his young life has been marred by tragedy (explained in Part I, if you missed it), he has long been guided by his […]
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Kayvon Asemani, a native of Baltimore and a 2014 graduate of the Milton Hershey School for at-risk youth in Hershey, Pa., has a fascinating story to tell. While his young life has been marred by tragedy, he has long been guided by his passion and creativity. Today, Asemani, a Wharton […]
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Natalie Hampton is a high school junior from Sherman Oaks, Calif. The once-bullied teen has created a new app called “Sit with Us,” a safe place for lonely kids to seek out lunchtime companionship. The free lunch-planning app allows students to find lunch tables if they don’t want to sit alone. […]
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Internships can be dynamic ways to try on careers, and sometimes the most unexpected opportunities will open your eyes to a whole new outlet for your skills and interests. Antione Gray is a senior in the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences. While he never considered himself entrepreneurially […]
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As a new college year gets underway, many students are beginning to settle comfortably into campus and their lives after high school. And still others are already starting to doubt their decisions. Before long, that nagging voice questioning if this is the right college choice for them will intensify to: […]
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During the last week of July, 2016, some 35 high school students from Philadelphia and the surrounding areas traveled to Wharton’s Huntsman Hall for the 2016 Summer Global Leadership Seminar organized by the World Affairs Council (WAC) of Philadelphia, in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton High School (KWHS). Right before the kick-off […]
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Welcome to the PwC-KWHS Podcast Series for High School Educators on Business & Financial Responsibility. I’m Diana Drake, managing editor of Knowledge@Wharton High School, and today we are discussing the intersection of technology and finance. Technology is dramatically changing the way consumers handle personal financial transactions, everything from online banking and virtual […]
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As students around the world graduate from high school, the future can seem daunting. Many are experiencing their first true inflection point, a life event that results in significant change and progress. What better time to taste a purpose-sustaining smoothie? Mukul Pandya, managing director of Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton’s online journal of […]
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Benjamin Lewis once ignited his competitive spirit on the open water as captain of the 2004 Olympic K4 team, the four-person men's sprint kayak. He also trained competitively for cross-country skiing. These days, he is channeling that passion into quite different, yet vital areas: animals and research. As founder of […]
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Welcome to the PwC-KWHS Podcast Series for High School Educators on Business & Financial Responsibility. I'm Diana Drake, managing editor of Knowledge@Wharton High School, and today we are talking about the economic value of higher education and how to help students manage college costs and debt. During our discussion, we will […]
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Welcome to the PwC-KWHS Podcast Series for High School Educators on Business & Financial Responsibility. I’m Diana Drake, managing editor of Knowledge@Wharton High School, and today we are talking about the economic value of higher education and how to help students prepare to manage college costs and debt. During our discussion, we […]
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Welcome to the PwC-KWHS Podcast Series for High School Educators on Business & Financial Responsibility. I’m Diana Drake, managing editor of Knowledge@Wharton High School, and today we are talking about the economic value of higher education and how to help students prepare to manage college costs and debt. During our discussion, we […]
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In part one of our four-part discussion on the value of higher education with Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli and retired PwC partner Michael Deniszczuk, we provide an overview of the price of college today and discuss the changing landscape of rising college costs.
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According to researchers, 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in the oceans each year. This is a huge environmental threat, and one that people are addressing in different ways. Take, for instance, some cool news out of Dana Point, Calif., this week. Students at Dana Hills High School are […]
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Even though he’s still a teenager, Rajat Bhageria is uniquely positioned to talk about entrepreneurship and the skills that help us to succeed in our lives after high school. He is the founder and CEO of ThirdEye Technologies, a startup that helps the visually impaired through object recognition from auditory […]
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In 2014, Wharton and University of Pennsylvania students Roopa Shankar, Alina Wang and Rachel Stewart founded NOMsense Bakery, a Philadelphia-based wholesale bakery specializing in handcrafted cookie sandwiches. While Stewart left the partnership last summer to work on other projects, Shankar and Wang are investing lots of time and energy into their creative cookie concept. This week, NOMsense won the Northeastern Regional Round of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, earning $5,000 for their start-up. KWHS editor Diana Drake recently sat down with co-founder Shankar to find out more about the “NOM” story.
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Former NBA star Adonal Foyle talks with KWHS editor Diana Drake about life growing up on a Caribbean island, discovering his sports talent at 15, and learning to make smart money moves.
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Technology is an important aspect of the changing financial landscape in the U.S., particularly as it applies to the skills, judgment and resources needed to manage money effectively. Do more high-tech solutions help students and others to become smarter about understanding and navigating their finances? In part three of our four-part audio podcast for educators on the intersection of finance and technology, Wharton professor Mauro Guillén and PwC’s Liz Diep talk about technology’s impact on financial capability and the socioeconomic challenges that accompany the increased use of financial technologies.
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New ways of doing things, particularly involving something as intimate as finances, are often met with a degree of skepticism and paranoia. Consumers, financial institutions and others face challenges in the adoption of these various technologies that are changing how we handle our personal finances – everything from online credit card transactions to cryptocurrencies.
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Technology now plays an important role in the financial lives of consumers. Compared with adults over the age of 35, research suggests that millennials are 67% more likely to find new technology exciting and use it as much as they can for banking and other tasks. In this first of a four-part podcast series on technology and personal finance, experts from Wharton and PwC help educators and their students identify the intersection between the two.
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How do we teach students to become innovative thinkers? Through exploration and experimentation. In this final part of a four-part audio podcast for educators on innovation and the art of problem-solving, Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director of the Mack Institute of Innovation Management at the Wharton School; and Rob Shelton, global innovation strategy lead at PwC, talk about ways to foster innovation in the high school classroom. They address several questions from teachers in hopes of getting at the heart of encouraging more risk-taking and creativity, as well as helping educators become catalysts for change.
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It’s one thing to recognize the power and influence of innovation, and entirely something else to call yourself an innovator. In this third part of a four-part audio podcast for educators on innovation and the art of problem-solving, Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director of the Mack Institute of Innovation Management at the Wharton School; and Rob Shelton, global innovation strategy lead at PwC, discuss the connection between innovation and creativity, and why experimentation is critical to developing innovation skills. In addition to sharing their own insights, the featured speakers also answer questions from high school educators.
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In this second part of a four-part audio podcast for educators on innovation and the art of problem-solving, Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director of the Mack Institute of Innovation Management at the Wharton School; and Rob Shelton, global innovation strategy lead at PwC, discuss innovation in action -- from some inspiring examples, to why innovation is at its heart a team sport.
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In a KWHS article on innovation, Jamie Lee Solimano, a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search for high school students, defined innovation like this: “To shift society or have an impact, you have to introduce something novel.” While invention is indeed one aspect of innovation, it is also so much more. In this first part of a four-part audio podcast for educators on innovation and the art of problem-solving, Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director of the Mack Institute of Innovation Management at the Wharton School; and Rob Shelton, global innovation strategy lead at PwC, discuss innovation basics and how it is related to critical thinking and problem-solving.
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If you like World Cup soccer, then you might want to learn more about another lesser-known sport -- Ultimate Frisbee. Sports is a big money maker around the world, and this game is quickly growing in popularity. In this audio podcast, KWHS talks with a high school Ultimate player about the appeal of the disc.
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Perhaps you love the stage, but not the spotlight? Why not consider a career behind the curtain? In this audio podcast, recent college grad Amy Fisk, an intern at an active regional theater in New Jersey, offers a backstage look at the life of a professional stage manager, where it’s important to have a mind for details and a heart for interacting with all types of personalities.
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Jessie Bernstein, 18, did not feel completely ready to go to college when she graduated from high school last June. She decided, instead, to defer her college acceptance and take a gap year -- a year off to explore interests and get experience doing new activities. KWHS sat down with Bernstein – literally inside a barn at the organic farm where she works – to discuss her life as a “gapper” and whether or not, so far, it has been the right choice for her.
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Talk about a love for soccer. Kids in Africa are known to fashion soccer balls out of just about anything they can find in order to play the game. Jeff DeCelles and his Grassroot Soccer colleagues have used that passion as a platform to teach young people about HIV and AIDS. In this podcast with Knowledge@Wharton High School editor Diana Drake, DeCelles discusses soccer for social good and his path from the University of Vermont to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Nonprofit organizations dedicated to the public good can’t do their important work without money. Take, for instance, Sesame Street, an educational program for children that is seen around the world. Without the necessary funding, the Muppets would be out of work. During the recent Child & Youth Finance International summit in Amsterdam, Knowledge@Wharton High School sat down with Anita Stewart to discuss her role developing and securing strategic corporate alliances and sponsorships for Sesame Workshop, the organization that produces Sesame Street.
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In April, which also happens to be National Financial Literacy Month, Knowledge@Wharton High School traveled to Amsterdam in Holland for the Child & Youth Finance International summit. While there, we sat down with Tom Rosen Jacobsen, a 10th grader from Amsterdam, to talk about the more than 70 youth from 40 countries participating in the event, and the challenge of agreeing on policy recommendations even when you don’t speak the same language.
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While April is National Financial Literacy Month, the movement to help young people better manage their money is actually quite global. Knowledge@Wharton High School traveled to Amsterdam in April to take part in the Child & Youth Finance International summit, which brought together youth and senior-level representatives from across various sectors to discuss financial education for children and youth around the world. While there, KWHS editor Diana Drake sat down with Melvis Mirazi, a senior at Zwelibanzi High School in Durban, South Africa, to discuss saving money in her part of the world.
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G.J. Melendez-Torres graduated from Wharton in 2011 with a BS in economics (health care management & policy) and the School of Nursing with a BS in nursing. He is now continuing toward a master's degree in advanced practice and psychiatric/mental health nursing. As a result of winning a Marshall Scholarship, Melendez-Torres is currently studying at the University of Oxford, free of cost. Knowledge@Wharton High School’s Sherry Yang caught up with G.J. before graduation to discuss his various interests, including his deep involvement in interfaith issues outside the classroom.
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Jason Schutzbank has been an entrepreneur since he was 14 and building websites for family and friends. He co-founded a social media company while in college at Emory University, balancing the stress of student life with being a top executive at a publicly traded firm. Today, the 23-year-old runs a business that advises companies on how to use Facebook and Twitter in their marketing. Schutzbank recently talked to Knowledge@Wharton High School about his experiences and offered advice to budding entrepreneurs.
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When was the last time you scarfed down a Big Mac at McDonald’s? For some high school students, fast food is a way of life — and not a very healthy one. Christopher Bolden-Newsome, community farm director and educator with Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm, a program that helps inner-city kids at Philadelphia high schools plant their own urban gardens and learn about nutrition and business, is a leader in the food-justice movement. He talks about his Seeds for Learning work and why the food justice community, which advocates access for all to good, healthy foods, is growing.
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Seth Goldman is raising awareness one tea leaf at a time. As president of Honest Tea, the company he started with a Yale professor, he has found a way to sell a healthier cold tea beverage and quench his thirst for social and environmental change. Goldman travels the world, visiting communities where his company’s organic teas are harvested and learning about the cultures that help grow his business. His career as an entrepreneur began when he was a kid selling used golf balls and lemonade. He now channels that energy into an Honest business with a passionate mission.
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As vice chairman of the Sun Group, Shiv Khemka has led his global company through many difficult situations – all the while able to fall back on his own deeply rooted value system. In this podcast, Khemka talks to Knowledge@Wharton High School about why it is important to start focusing at a young age on principles and leadership.
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While most teens hit the beach each summer, high school senior Brandon Martin is up to his elbows in ochre and watermelon as an employee of Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm, a program that helps Philadelphia high schoolers plant their own urban gardens and learn about nutrition and business. Martin, who wants to become a chef, doesn’t plan to come out of the garden anytime soon. Knowledge@Wharton High School talked to Martin when he was a sophomore about his summer experience and more.
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While most of us rarely think of mummies unless it’s Halloween, Sam Cox constantly has the cloth-wrapped creatures on her mind. A graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, Cox has been studying anthropology that uses the latest technology, like CT scans, to examine ancient specimens. She sat down with Knowledge@Wharton High School to discuss her path from high school to anthropology and how technology is changing her field.
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Tiny is SO in these days. Nanotechnology, technology that is small enough to fit inside a computer chip, is a field that is attracting lots of young technologists. Wharton MBA graduates Brian Smith and Irene Susantio -- otherwise known as Team Solixia -- are putting tiny into action in health care. Their “Hot Dot” cancer treatment is the size of a small protein fragment yet 20 times more powerful in diagnosing and treating cancer than current methods. Brian and Irene have big plans for their business, which received a grant from the National Cancer Institute in August, 2010, as they spread the word about the small wonders of nanotechnology.
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All middle school students are not created equal. Enter the Breakthrough Collaborative, a national organization that gives 6th, 7th and 8th graders around the country the opportunity to improve their education and reach their dreams. Farish Sawyer, a senior program director of Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia, talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School about enriching the lives of young students, while also mentoring high school and college students to become excellent teachers.
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Janet Monge says she was a born anthropologist. Even so, it took her many years of soul searching before she decided to make the stuff of skeletons her actual career. Now, as acting curator in charge of physical anthropology at the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, she travels as close as Malvern, Pa., to research skeletal remains at a mass railroad worker gravesite and as far away as Croatia to study the biggest collection of Neanderthal fossils. KWHS talked to Monge about her fascinating work and her thoughts about how museums are challenged to move into the future.
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Carter Roberts is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, a nonprofit group that works to conserve nature around the world. From his childhood exploring the woods near his home, to his career protecting habitats in the far corners of the earth, Roberts has fostered a connection to the natural world. His job is as diverse as the ecosystems he visits. One day he may be negotiating with the president of a corporation, and the next he is sitting on a dirt floor talking with villagers about the value of saving tigers. In the end his message is the same: we’d better start protecting nature before it’s too late.
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