High school students are passionate about financial education. The demand for our Wharton Global Youth on-campus Essentials of Finance program prompted us to create a new online program for high school students this summer that we are calling Financial Decision Making Students’ passion extends to spreading that financial knowledge. Our team often receives pitches from potential Future of the Business World podcast guests about teens’ efforts to improve  youth financial skills and fight economic inequality across the globe. Take, for instance, Isaac H., a high school student from rural In ..read more

What can you expect as an employee of the future? Science. Companies are using data and analysis for recruiting, compensation and performance evaluation because they believe it leads to better decisions about the people they hire and manage. Adam Grant, a professor and organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, said that he first saw this field of People Analytics unfolding at Google, where the company brought together a team of traditional human resource professionals, consultants, engineers and academics like him who studied organizational behavior ..read more

This month’s Future of the Business World podcast will get you thinking about the deep connections between food and culture. Massachusetts high school junior Noah Sheldon is the founder of Inclusive Eats, a nonprofit that helps stock local food pantries with staples that people who are food-insecure in his diverse community would find in their home countries. This mission is a true extension of Noah’s passions, including his own Brazilian heritage and cuisine, and his love for entrepreneurship, which he explored during Wharton Global Youth’s Essentials of Entrepreneurship program.  Be ..read more

As you ponder the future workplace, what kind of manager do you hope to be? The answer lies in understanding what it means to think like a manager. During our Wharton Global Youth summer programs, Dr. Lori Rosenkopf, Wharton professor of management and vice dean of entrepreneurship, delivered a cross-program lecture to some 300 high school students learning with us on campus. She asked the group a simple question: What business role do you envision having someday? CEO? Top-level manager? Middle manager? Not a manager at all? While much of the room clamored to the CEO corner, there were a few ..read more

In a recent conversation with Wharton Global Youth about business ethics, the Wharton School’s Amy Sepinwall said she had observed today’s youth approaching business as a force for good, a way to make the world better. As you begin to think critically about how and where you want to use your business acumen and skills to influence change, here are a few Wharton-informed issues at the intersection of business and ethics – where influencers in all areas of organizations are navigating the balance between profit-driven goals and what is best and just for society. Boardroom diversity. Promoting ..read more

The high school students we invite on the Wharton Global Youth Future of the Business World podcast come to us from many onramps, including our Leadership in the Business World, Innovation and Startup Culture, and Essentials of Entrepreneurship summer programs. We also recognize that innovative thinking often starts in the high school classroom. Today’s guest, Danielle Buchanan, first embraced her enterprising spirit through her Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship class in school. Today, she has a vibrant cake-pop brand and aspires to study product marketing after graduation. Just in time ..read more

Brian Berkey has a flip phone. Why would a Wharton School professor of legal studies and business ethics choose to forgo a connected smartphone? Like any good academic, he’s been watching the data. Dr. Berkey has been in part influenced by the research of his department’s former PhD student Vikram R. Bhargava, who co-authored the study Ethics of the Attention Economy: the Problem of Social Media Addiction, published in Business Ethics Quarterly. “There’s been some interesting discussion in business ethics about the ways in which tech firms are at least generally designing some of their produc ..read more

In the world of business meets sports for high school-aged fans, Zachary Weiner is a major influencer. Not sure where he fits alongside Charli, Jojo and Billie? Just think crazy slam dunks on TikTok, episodes of the Overtime Challenge on YouTube, and Overtime Elite amplified on Amazon Prime. The Overtime Opportunity Zack is president and co-founder of Overtime, a sports media company that generates original sports content on social media geared toward younger fans who are always on their phones – and endlessly scrolling posts. This is not your parents’ sports fandom.  The next generation ..read more

Eric Bradlow has all the grit and grind of your toughest football linebacker. His equipment of choice? Data and analytics. As an applied statistician, Dr. Bradlow, a professor of marketing, statistics, education and economics and vice dean of analytics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, uses high-powered statistical models to solve problems. Combining math and observed data, these models use statistical assumptions to generate sample data, find patterns and make predictions that help businesspeople make data-driven decisions on everything from the best products to sell, t ..read more

This month on Future of the Business World, we talk with Darsh Shah, a high school student from Silicon Valley in California, U.S., who was inspired by the surrounding innovation culture to start a business helping young entrepreneurs. First, however, he had to commit to developing his own entrepreneurial mindset. Darsh and his co-founder Aarav G. have also launched a successful business hackathon for high school students in partnership with Berkeley Haas School of Business in California. A collaborative approach, notes Darsh, has “opened doors that are endless” for the scalability of his y ..read more