Wharton Magazine
What’s the Secret to Startup Success?
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Entrepreneurship
Spring/Summer 2025

What’s the Secret to Startup Success?

Wharton’s Lori Rosenkopf, author of the new book Unstoppable Entrepreneurs, offers instructive alumni stories and insights into two of her six “R’s of the Entrepreneurial Mindset.”

How COVID Changed the World
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Health Care
Spring/Summer 2025

How COVID Changed the World

It’s been five years since COVID-19 upended our lives. Knowledge at Wharton asked the School’s professors to examine the lasting impacts for business, the economy, and society.

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Leadership
Fall/Winter 2024

Are Cities on the Verge of a Crisis or a Comeback?

Wharton faculty research suggests that how cities navigate the next few years could mean the difference between urban flight and a renaissance that outpaces the aughts.

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Leadership
Fall/Winter 2024

Alumni Leaders in Public Service

From a small town in Connecticut to the halls of Congress, these four graduates are doing their part to break through partisan politics and serve the greater good.

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Finance
Spring/Summer 2024

Teaching Finance, Transforming Lives

A new Wharton program sends MBAs to visit a state prison, where they share skills for professional success with incarcerated individuals. The result is an experience with profound impact, not only on the students behind bars, but also on the student mentors.

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Research
Spring/Summer 2024

How to Resolve Conflict in Business

Five Wharton faculty share insights about conflict in its many forms and how to navigate it, resolve it, reframe it, or even avoid it entirely, for better results.

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Innovation/Tech
Fall/Winter 2023

The Rise of AI

Wharton professors make sense of this new era of explosive technological advancement.

Four Decades of the Lauder Institute's Global Impact
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International
Fall/Winter 2023

Four Decades of the Lauder Institute's Global Impact

As the Lauder Institute celebrates its 40th anniversary, a look back at its evolution as a one-of-a-kind program to develop international business leaders (and, in the process, a particularly passionate alumni network)

Conceptual illustration of a city silhouette on a COVID spore, a bitcoin symbol in a crystal ball, a Twitter bird with a muzzle beak, a home upside down on top of an office building, and a robot carrying a briefcase.
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Research
Spring/Summer 2023

Ask Me Anything

Ever wish you could call or text a Wharton professor with a burning business question or to get a quick take on a headline-making trend? Eleven faculty members fielded queries about everything from workplace changes to the impacts of ChatGPT to the state of affairs for cryptocurrency and social media regulation.

Headshots of Jamie Moldafsky, Nat Turner, Vivek Tiwary, Cesar Conde, and Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli.
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Alumni News
Spring/Summer 2023

Where Are They Now?

These standout alumni made headlines in this magazine over the past two decades. Today, they’re still blazing new trails, from producing a Broadway smash hit to rethinking vital food ecosystems to changing the collectables game. Here, where they’ve been and where they’re going.

Three portraits of Jeremy Siegel with different happy facial expressions.
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Finance
Fall/Winter 2022

Jeremy Siegel: Up Close With an Icon

Next to Joseph Wharton himself, there’s arguably no one who symbolizes the Wharton School more than emeritus finance professor Jeremy Siegel. With the release of an updated edition of his classic book Stocks for the Long Run, Siegel reflects on his career, the stock market, and the School he’s called home for more than four decades.

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AI/Analytics
Fall/Winter 2022

A Campus Transformed

The openings of the Academic Research Building and Tangen Hall mark a new era for the Wharton School and exciting opportunities for students and faculty.

Paul Ryan and son Paul Ryan III sitting on a tabletop and chair, respectively, in their bar Smokey Joe's.
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Management
Spring/Summer 2022

The Business of Smokey Joe's

In a conversation with fintech superstar and author of Self-Made Boss Jacqueline Reses W92, the co-owner of Penn’s legendary watering hole shares insights about working with family, finding a formula for success, and what still makes “Smokes” the greatest bar in Philadelphia.

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Economics
Spring/Summer 2022

Inside the Supply Chain Crisis

Wharton alumni tackling global disruptions and faculty experts share horror stories, adaptation strategies, and outlooks for the future.

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Philanthropy
Fall/Winter 2021

A Campaign Like No Other

The More Than Ever fundraising effort brought together Wharton alumni, supporters, and friends from all over the world, raising a record-setting one billion dollars. What does that mean for Wharton? In a word: everything.

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Innovation/Tech
Fall/Winter 2021

The Future of Business

Artificial intelligence is transforming virtually every sector, and in the process, raising urgent questions about how to use this technology effectively and responsibly. Wharton faculty leading a cutting-edge new program and alumni trailblazers weigh in on the power, potential, and pitfalls of AI.