Subscribe to RSS FeedWharton Faculty to Present on AI Regulation and Productivity, Generative AI, and Entrepreneurship at One-Day Seminars for Business Journalists Program in San Francisco on June 26, 2025
Applications now open, deadline to apply is June 12 What: The Wharton School is pleased to invite full-time business journalists to apply for the next one-day Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program, held on Wharton’s San Francisco campus. The June 2025 program will feature Wharton Profs. Kevin Werbach, Hamsa Bastani, Kartik Hosanagar, and Lori Rosenkopf, who ...Read More
2025 Lipman Family Prize Winners Named
Grand Prize Winner will be announced April 24th PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 2025 – Barbershop Books, BleagLee, and Technovation have been named as winners of the 2025 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from an applicant pool of 150 organizations, all three winners are guaranteed an unrestricted financial award of $150,000 as well as executive training ...Read More
Jason Altschuler and Anderson Ye Zhang, Assistant Professors of Statistics and Data Science, Named Among 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
NEW YORK, February 20, 2025 — The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the names of the 126 early career researchers who have been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2025. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them ...Read More
Transformative Gift and Matching Challenge from the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund Advances Research and Training to Expand Health Care Access
PHILADELPHIA, January 28, 2025 – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI) are pleased to announce a landmark $3.5 million gift to establish the Davis Family SUMR Program Endowment Fund, with an additional $1 million matching challenge from the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund. ...Read More
Mark J. Pincus Pledges Visionary Gift to Elevate Generative AI Applications at the Wharton School
PHILADELPHIA, December 10, 2024 – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania proudly announces a $5 million gift from Mark J. Pincus, W’88, founder of social gaming company Zynga and a pioneer in generative AI applications. This visionary gift supports the launch of the Pincus Artificial Intelligence Lab for Organizational Innovation. As the largest ...Read More
Penn Receives $5 Million to Create the First-of-its-Kind Professorship in Philanthropy
The Wieler Family Professorship in the field of philanthropy will hold a primary appointment in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and a secondary appointment in the Wharton School PHILADELPHIA, December 3, 2024—The University of Pennsylvania today announced a $5 million gift to create the Wieler Family Professorship, a position to be focused on ...Read More
Wharton Online Launches AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching Developed in Collaboration with OpenAI
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
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- Focus on the Future: An Interview with PagerDuty’s Jennifer Tejada March 21, 2025Wharton vice dean for executive education Patti Williams talks with Jennifer Tejada, CEO of digital operations management firm PagerDuty, about the importance of having an “ownership mindset,” understanding your users, and preparing for big changes like the advent of AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Women Moving Forward: Collected Insights March 4, 2025In this special episode, listen to curated excerpts from the Ripple Effect podcast on women’s leadership, workplace equity, and career advancement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Why Accountability Matters in AI Development and Governance February 7, 2025Professor Kevin Werbach has spent his career at the crossroads of business, law, and emerging technology. He talks about his latest project, the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, to help guide responsible development and governance of artificial intelligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Transformative Tech: Innovating for the Underserved | Valentina Assenova February 4, 2025Management professor Valentina Assenova discusses why digital platforms, like mobile money platforms, are improving financial access around the world. This Ripple Effect podcast episode is part of a series on “Innovation” that was produced in cooperation with Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Detecting Bias in AI Image Generators January 27, 2025Wharton marketing professor Kartik Hosanagar and doctoral candidate Pushkar Shukla talk about software they developed with other experts to identify and correct biases in AI text-to-image generators. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Confidence in Cryptocurrency | David Reibstein and John Zhang (Part 2) January 14, 2025In this two-part episode from the Ripple Effect podcast, Wharton marketing professors assess the future of cryptocurrency ownership and whether scandals have damaged consumer trust. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Confidence in Cryptocurrency | David Reibstein and John Zhang (Part 1) January 7, 2025In this two-part episode from the Ripple Effect podcast, Wharton marketing professors assess the growth of cryptocurrency so far and how consumer confidence can influence pricing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.