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Asking Questions, Unlocking Solutions

How reframing a problem creates value for customers

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The Future of Fast Food

Alumni dish on the industry's digital transformation.

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Anima Iris

On a meteoric rise through the fiercely competitive luxury retail market, high-end handbag brand Anima Iris has been picked up by Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and even Beyoncé. With geometric and bold designs, founder Wilglory Tanjong G22 WG22 expresses her ancestry in a fashionable and sustainable way. The bags are made in Senegal by expert craftspeople who have honed their techniques over decades and draw inspiration from centuries of heritage. The leather and other materials are sourced through local African business merchants. Anima Iris is environmentally friendly and employs a zero-waste model that ensures all materials are used and that no two products are the same.

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Bilt Rewards

Bilt Rewards launched in 2021 and achieved immediate success in its first year. The startup credit-card rewards program by founder and CEO Ankur Jain W11 makes redeeming points from purchases easy with a unique twist — the card can be used toward rent payments. Jain explains that renters today are living with inflation and rising rent costs, resulting in many who now must pay close to 50 percent of their earned income on rent. Bilt helps this generation build credit while earning rewards that open up affordability in other areas of their lives, such as travel experiences and eventual home ownership.

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Kokada

An organic coconut butter with its early roots in Venture Lab’s Food Innovation Lab can now be found in 1,300 stores, including national chains Sprouts and Wegmans. Couple-turned-business-partners Breanna Golestani WG23 and Jared Golestani WG23 founded Kokada in 2020 to provide a healthier alternative to sugar-laden snacks and spreads typically found at the grocery store. Kokada offers a range of coconut butters that are all peanut-free and sugar-free and designed to be enjoyed as a dip, with a treat, or as part of a meal. The company gives back two percent of all sales to SERVE, a certified NGO based in Sri Lanka, where its ingredients are sourced.

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Flagler Health

Developed by Albert Katz WG23 and Will Hu GED19, Flagler Health combines patient data and the power of AI to help physicians recommend treatments to their patients. (“It’s like giving a calculator to a mathematician,” says Katz.) Backed by $6 million in funding, Flagler Health now serves more than 1.5 million patients and recently launched a new product that provides remote patients with exercises to keep joints moving pre- and post-op. The startup made the Poets & Quants “Most Disruptive MBA Startups of 2023” list and was a finalist in Penn’s 2023 Venture Lab Startup Challenge.

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Catching Eyes in the Attention Economy

New research shows how to use language to capture audience attention, from word choice to building suspense.

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Certa

Juggling multiple vendors can be daunting for a small-business owner. Certa, led by CEO Jagmeet Lamba WG07 and CFO Dudley Brundige WG07, streamlines relationships with third-party vendors, making onboarding up to three times faster. The platform itself can reduce IT labor needs, allowing users to create personalized workflows. The company also has its own AI technology—CertaAssist—that can fill out supplier questionnaires, consolidate intake requests, and create data visualizations. Certa’s clients include Uber, Instacart, and Box, whose executives have reported reduced cycle times and operating costs after using the procurement software.

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United for a Brighter Future

Dean Erika James reflects on opportunities for the Wharton community to come together and lead.

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On the Scene

From Hong Kong to New York, Wharton alumni unite for Impact Tour gatherings, GOLD events, good music, and more.

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Sigo Seguros

Spanish remains the most widely used language in the U.S. behind English, with an estimated 41 million current speakers. But Hispanic immigrants still face cultural barriers when they arrive in the States. Nestor Hugo Solari G19 WG19 and Júlio Erdos C10 ENG10 G19 WG19 created Sigo Seguros, a bilingual Texas-based car insurance technology company, to better serve this population. “Our differentiated product starts with a deep understanding of our community and its needs,” says Solari. The Spanish-language mobile and web portals, coupled with quick payback periods, are particularly appealing to working-class drivers. The “insurtech” company raised $5.1 million in additional pre-seed funding in 2023.

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Supercharge Your Startup

Resources to help you jump-start your venture’s growth

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CancerIQ

Cancer can bring your life to a screeching halt. Along with the burden of navigating through new medical terminology and uncertainty, a positive diagnosis can generate feelings of loneliness and isolation. CancerIQ was founded by Feyi Olopade Ayodele W05 WG12 to offer a supportive and more strategic solution for health-care providers working with patients in early cancer detection and prevention. As a software platform, CancerIQ offers hyper-personalized care plans and assesses risks in patients by avoiding the one-size-fits-all approach. The tool focuses on early detection with more precise screening. CancerIQ has been implemented in more than 200 clinic locations across the U.S.

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Piere

Every day seems to bring a new way to send, receive, or manage money. Managing cash flow on numerous platforms has become quite onerous, non? Au contraire. Piere, an AI-powered app founded by Yuval Shmul Shuminer W19, analyzes past transactions to create a customized budget in two taps. It’s a peer-to-peer facilitator (for such tasks as getting reimbursed for a group meal) and a spending tracker in one. Since Intuit shut down its popular Mint budgeting app, Piere is reported to be the ideal successor: News outlets have featured the app as part of the “loud budgeting” social media trend, and financial publications highlight it as a valuable tool for monitoring spending.

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Play-PKL

Heidi Block WG95 and her family first got hooked on pickleball during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when they played the sport together at home in New Jersey to pass the time and stay active. But when Block couldn’t find apparel specifically designed for pickleball, she decided to make her own. Along with her eldest son, Max, she founded Play-PKL, an online retailer selling premium pickleball equipment and stylish outfits for recreational players. The site also offers tips and lessons for beginning pickleballers.

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GreenLite

Obtaining the correct building permit at the right time is crucial, and a lack of permits can grind construction to an expensive stop. To make the process faster, easier, and more transparent, Ben Allen WG17 and James Gallagher C09 launched GreenLite. Their team — made up of planning, construction, and development professionals — has experienced permitting challenges firsthand and built that knowledge into the construction-permitting and plan-review platform. The company has raised $8 million in seed funding since launching in October.

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By The Numbers: Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative

Simply put, the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative studies people doing things over time. These stats show the depth and scope of WCAI’s research.

By The Numbers: Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative 1

11,264

People in the WCAI network, including 3,529 academic researchers, 5,986 industry practitioners, and 1,749 Wharton/Penn alumni

26

Corporate partners, including Hertz, GM, Electronic Arts, and American Red Cross

FORTY-EIGHT

Published and working papers

330

Gigabytes of data awarded by companies to WCAI for use in research

NINETEEN

Countries represented in WCAI data sets

1,012

Students participating in technical workshops since 2014

SIX

Research opportunities currently available for proposal submissions, from a Fortune 500 retailer in search of purchase patterns to a video game company looking to improve matching of its online players

20 MILLION

Individual customer transactions in WCAI databases

$122,500

Median salary offer for Wharton MBAs pursuing analytics jobs

500+

Registrants for the annual WCAI Analytics Conference since it launched in 2014. This year’s event is May 10–11 in Philadelphia.

FORTY

Companies that have recruited Wharton students at the WCAI Analytics Career Expo

TWENTY-TWO

Research projects completed or under way since 2010

15.8%

MBAs involved with the Wharton Data and Analytics Club (WDAC)

Published as “Numbers, Crunched” in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Wharton Magazine.

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Alumni News

Fall/Winter 2023

Solid GOLD

A by-the-numbers look at Wharton’s MBA graduates of the last decade — affectionately known as GOLD alumni — and the many School resources available to them in the first 10 years after commencement

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Research

Spring/Summer 2023

A Decade of IDDEAS@Wharton

Now in its 10th year, the program — whose acronym stands for Introduction to Diversity in Doctoral Education and Scholarship — seeks to introduce undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to doctoral-level study through on-campus programming.

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Innovation/Tech

Fall/Winter 2022

Level Up
Your Learning

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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Alumni News

Spring/Summer 2022

MBA Reunion Returns to Campus

Making up for time spent apart, Wharton MBA Reunions have returned to an in-person format this year — and are pulling out all the stops. Upcoming events are giving classmates from nearly three dozen graduation years chances to reunite, learn from Wharton faculty, and make new memories together.

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