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Johnson & Johnson Gift Provides Undergraduate Financial Aid and Serves Communities through the Nursing/Wharton Impact Scholars Loan Program

Alex Gorsky, WG’96, Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 15, 2018 – The University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a gift of $1 million from Johnson & Johnson to the School of Nursing and the Wharton School. This investment launches the Nursing/Wharton Impact Scholars Loan Program, a…Read More

Penn Launches Strategic Collaboration with Ripple to Accelerate Innovation in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Penn Launches Strategic Collaboration with Ripple to Accelerate Innovation in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 4, 2018 — The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania today announced the launch of The Ripple Project at Penn. This joint-school effort is supported…Read More

How to Make Leadership Look Like Magic

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

Private: Award-Winning Sanitation Startup revoLOOtion Solves a Basic Need

A child girl plays in piles of trash while her mother burns it on the beach of Kollam, Kerala

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

Helping Cities Go With the Flow

Excavator helps to eliminate the problem of breaking a pipe in the street on a hot summer day

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

From Farm to Market More Efficiently

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

Are Leaders Born … or Made?

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