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A Look Inside the Ever-Changing World of Modern Media

Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff WG96 discusses the digital media landscape, opportunities and hurdles for the year ahead, and an early internet bet that paid off big.

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School News

How an Attitude of Gratitude Builds a Healthy Workplace Culture

Dean Erika James on the importance of expressing thanks to colleagues not just now, but year-round

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School News

The Path to Publishing Your Book

Two Wharton graduates talked about their experiences writing and marketing books at Wharton Magazine’s Alumni Authors Salon during Reunion Reimagined.

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Blog Network

Finding Your Leadership Edge

Wharton management professor Mike Useem's recent book on successful CEOs sparks ideas for finding inspiration within our own networks.

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Blog Network

The Case Against a Global Minimum Tax

The tax, writes Perry V. Kalajian W79 GL90 WG90, would be easy to undermine and would hinder U.S. competitiveness.

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Alumni Spotlight

Financial Literacy Through a New Lens

Personal-finance expert Ross Mac W12 talks money, music, and his Netflix debut.

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Blog Network

Alumni Book Roundup: Fall 2022

Wharton grads examine entrepreneurship in America, workplace gender bias, keys to managerial success, and more.

Cardon co-founders Narae Chung and Jacqueline Oak.
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Cardon

When skin-care aficionado Narae Chung WG17 and retail expert Jacqueline Oak WG17 met at Wharton, they got to wondering why the demand for Korean skin-care products in America came almost exclusively from women. This question became the catalyst for Cardon, a skin-care brand using high-quality Korean product formulations in simple and targeted ranges for men. The startup’s intuitive website and easy-to-understand products — each packed with ingredients for common skin concerns — make for a perfect introduction to the culture of skin care for a male demographic that’s largely uninitiated.

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Shatterproof

Roughly one in three Americans today report that drugs have been a source of trouble for their family. After his son Brian took his own life amid a struggle with addiction, Gary Mendell WG94 founded Shatterproof to transform treatment and change how the public views substance-use disorders. Inspired by his loss, Mendell aims to end the stigma in America by shifting awareness toward a better comprehension of the realities of the disease and the current treatment system. Shatterproof is spurring change among health-care companies, communities, and legislatures — efforts that earlier this year garnered the nonprofit $5 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to expand its work.

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Alula

“There are few days that divide your life into two parts: before times and after times,” says Liya Shuster-Bier WG17, who knows firsthand you can’t possibly understand some experiences until you’ve lived through them. Her own battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma inspired her to start a centralized shop with products for those undergoing cancer treatments, ranging from cold packs to anti-nausea lozenges and post-op recovery kits. Alula handpicks the most useful, thoughtful, tried, and tested goods and also offers treatment-specific recommendations via text or phone — all geared toward making living with cancer more bearable.

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Wonder

Anyone who loves food appreciates that it’s best served fresh. Led by alumnus Marc Lore and Scott Hilton WG07, Wonder partners with talented chefs and gourmet restaurants to bring “fired, finished, and plated” meals right to customers’ doorsteps. Per their mobile ghost-kitchen concept, Wonder-branded food trucks are equipped to prepare orders outside homes and deliver restaurant-quality food fresh from the oven. Currently serving New Jersey, Lore and Hilton — who most recently worked together as Walmart executives — focus on sustainable, locally sourced, seasonal ingredients and plan to have a national footprint by 2035.

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Keye

“One subscription to access them all.” That’s the pitch for Keye, a new idea from Rohan Parikh G23 WG23, Niha Gottiparthy WG23, and Paolo Fornasini G23 WG23 that’s tackling subscription fatigue. A winner of the Lauder Institute’s 2022 Jacobson Venture Awards and a recent participant in Venture Lab’s VIP-X accelerator, Keye offers a new way to enjoy online content without committing to so many services. Currently in beta testing, the startup gives users monthly credits to access certain content from its partners, so you can stop anteing up for services you rarely touch and only pay for what you need.

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Ideas

Why Loyal Employees Are Hard to Find

Goodbye, gold watch. Bon voyage, retirement party. Fare thee well, fat pension. The modern workplace has become increasingly transactional, raising the question: Is company loyalty gone for good?

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Round-Trip
Journey

A career switch from electrical engineering to banking opened new opportunities for Femi Badeji WG06, including the chance to return home.

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ToxiSense

The global effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine in 2020 stressed the need for a better way to test biopharma products for endotoxins. The current standard, which relies on an extract derived from horseshoe crab blood, is required by the FDA and ensures that substances like vaccines don’t transmit illness-carrying bacteria. But the process of making the extract is expensive and is damaging to the horseshoe crab population. Four Penn students — Aravind Krishnan C25 W25, Andrew Diep-Tran W25, Udit Garg ENG25, and Aarush Sahni C25 — won the Perlman Grand Prize at this year’s Venture Lab Startup Challenge with ToxiSense, which genetically engineers bioluminescent plants to glow when exposed to endotoxins. Not only is this testing method more cost-effective; it could save the threatened horseshoe crabs from overharvesting.

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With its dynamic suite of digital games and simulations grounded in the latest teaching research, Wharton Interactive is on a mission to radically transform and democratize education.

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Prof. Barbara Mellers Discusses the Dynamics of Decision Making

Barbara Mellers—one of Wharton's newest Penn Integrates Knowledge professors—talks about her research into the factors that influence judgments and decisions, including emotions, self-interest, past mistakes, sensitivities to risk, and perceptions of fairness.
March 1, 2011
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