If you think leadership can’t be learned, Professor Sigal Barsade will change your mind. She believes leadership is a skill that contains identifiable elements like emotional intelligence, group decision making, and the ability to positively influence people.…Read More
Business is going interdisciplinary with MBAs now finding unconventional leadership roles. …Read More
Chances are most Wharton students take basic sanitation for granted. Not Nidhi Shah, G’17, WG’17, who confronted enough problems with sewage in her native India to become a waste warrior. The result? RevoLOOtion, a startup on a mission to change the way the world does sanitation, making it more sustainable,…Read More 
Can “gut” decisions be harnessed into analytics tools? Professor Cade Massey shows how.…Read More
Wharton alumni are taking the lead in making alternative investments essential to modern finance.…Read More
Water utilities lose $14 billion every year from leaks, faulty meters, and water theft. These challenges, coupled with a lack of government infrastructure investment, have kept water and sewer costs rising at a rate beyond average income growth and inflation. Increasing costs and public pushback are forcing utilities to move beyond traditional practices to keep pace and open the door for private-sector solutions — like those springing forth from Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship.…Read More
When it comes to agriculture, weather isn’t all that’s dicey. Farmers need accurate counts of the produce in their fields to determine pricing, negotiate contracts with buyers, and maintain the overall financial health and success of their farms. But precise crop estimation techniques are expensive to execute because they entail high labor costs, while more efficient estimating techniques are often inaccurate.…Read More
Strong, effective leadership is indispensable to the success of any organization. Large corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions — all recognize the difference good leaders make and know the challenges that arise from leadership vacuums. Yet a longstanding debate has questioned whether great leaders are simply born or whether they can be taught.…Read More
Thinking of growing your company via a merger or an acquisition? It’s important for strategic buyers to understand what’s shaping the market and the competitive environment when making such decisions. And it’s just as critical, says Wharton finance professor Robert Holthausen, to consider two external forces at work in today’s M&A market: cross-border activity, and the role of private equity.…Read More
The mission of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative has always been to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Last fall, Wharton marketing professors and WCAI co-directors Eric Bradlow and Raghu Iyengar were determined to find a way to engage more deeply with companies while providing students with opportunities to immerse themselves in real-world data and business contexts via a “learning by doing” approach. Just to up the ante, they set a project time limit of one month.…Read More
