Maintaining Export Advantage in the Face of a Rising Dollar

How can U.S. companies maintain their competitive position in the international export space? Alexander Gordin counts fives ways.

Essay: Saving Capitalism From Death

Economic inequality is the great business challenge of our time, writes an economic historian and young alumnus.

Regions: Latin America

Penn and Wharton alumni in Mexico participated in a unique breakfast with economist and public servant Eduardo Sojo G83.

How Business Executives Use Business History

Business history, a sometimes overlooked interdisciplinary hybrid, remains useful to current and future business enterprises, writes Drew Keeling.

Lasting Business Legacies of the First World War

How the Great War and its aftermath had significant and enduring impacts upon private enterprise.

New Research Proves U.S. Income Gap Threatens Progress

A new study on income inequality should end the American public policy debate on the topic, writes our Wharton blogger.

Sound Bite: Celebrity Economist on Decision-Making Strategy

Wharton Leader Q&A: Noreena Hertz

Noreena Hertz, WG'91, calls herself an "ideas entrepreneur." After our interview with her, we call her a prognosticator, an economics celebrity and a decision-maker for the world's leaders.

A Century Ago, March Began to World War I

Globalization's first age ended in disaster in July 1914. Economic historian Drew Keeling details how Albert Ballin and Winston Churchill tried to head it off.

Supreme Court Decision Confronts Argentina With New Finance Challenge

Sovereign debt now threatens to cripple international economic development after a recent U.S. court ruling, writes expert Emmanuel D. Hatzakis.

Fly Globally, Buy Locally

"Keep it local and keep it real" ought to be the practice of a community's gateway to the world.

Highs and Lows of Investing in Pot

The marijuana industry is growing fast and may one day be as entrenched as alcohol is today, but do your research first before buying into companies.

A Call to Action, Not Reaction

A young, respected scholarly voice warns about wealth inequality and challenges students and alumni to heal the divide.

Watch List: Books

We spotlight recently published books written by Wharton alumni.

Banking on Good Returns

Social impact finance has come a long way in three decades, in no small part due to the extraordinary work of a number of prominent Wharton graduates. Now the sector is poised to take off, again with the aid of some truly creative initiatives from Wharton alums to rally the investment world toward “sustainable capitalism.”

Regions: Latin America

Wharton MBA students explore the new business climate in Cuba.