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Wharton Online Launches AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching Developed in Collaboration with OpenAI

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New Coursera-Hosted Course Empowers Teachers to Integrate AI into Their Classrooms PHILADELPHIA, November 21, 2024 – Today, Wharton Online, in collaboration with OpenAI, announces the launch of a new course, AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching, available on Coursera, a leading online-learning platform to more than 162 million learners globally. Designed for educators in higher ...Read More

Wharton Executive Education Announces New AI Leadership Program Featuring Reid Hoffman

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Leading an AI-Powered Future Offers Exclusive Insights from AI Visionary Reid Hoffman and Wharton Faculty to Equip Leaders for an AI-Driven World PHILADELPHIA, October 22, 2024 – The Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announces Leading an AI-Powered Future, a new program featuring LinkedIn co-founder and AI visionary ...Read More

Wharton’s Jacobs Levy Center to Investigate AI in Finance, at Annual Conference

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PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 17, 2024—The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will examine the impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector at its annual conference on Friday, September 20 in Jon M. Huntsman Hall on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia. “The world ...Read More

University of Pennsylvania Launches Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy

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The Center will bring together six schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University The University of Pennsylvania today announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center will be housed in the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) ...Read More

Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists To Hold Flagship October 2024 Program in Philadelphia, All-Expense-Paid Fellowships Available

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Applications now open, deadline to apply is August 26 What: The Wharton School is pleased to invite business journalists to apply for the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists flagship program, held on Wharton’s Philadelphia campus. There are several funding opportunities available for journalists, including an all-expenses-paid fellowship for U.S.-based journalists offered by the National Press Foundation ...Read More

Wharton Professor Jules van Binsbergen Appointed Director of the Lauder Institute

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PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2024—University of Pennsylvania Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. has announced the appointment of Jules van Binsbergen, the Nippon Life Professor in Finance in the Wharton School, as the Lauder Professor and Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, beginning July 1, 2024. “Jules van Binsbergen ...Read More

Mary-Hunter “Mae” McDonnell Appointed Inaugural Faculty Recipient of Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Professorship

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PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 2024 – It is with great pleasure that Penn Interim President J. Larry Jameson and Wharton Dean Erika James announce that Mary-Hunter (“Mae”) McDonnell has been named as the inaugural Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Professorship ...Read More