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NEWS: We are launching the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Master of Science in Quantitative Finance, our first new degree offering in 50 years: whr.tn/46nfF3w The one-year #JacobsMSQF program is initially intended for @Penn students with a quantitative background and career aspirations in quantitative asset management and allied fields, with the application now open for the inaugural cohort starting Fall 2026. The program is funded by the generosity of philanthropist and #WhartonGrad Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs (G’79, GRW’86), whose latest gift of $60 million is the largest single gift in school history and builds upon his longstanding support of quantitative finance initiatives at Wharton. Learn more: whr.tn/46hHp9F

Our Lab just posted a new research report from Zimran Ahmed about how the game industry is adapting to AI. He spoke to people at 20 different studios and found a wide range of approaches to adapt (or failures to adapt) to AI at the organizational level. gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-i…

From children’s books to the latest on AI, discover new spring reads from @Wharton alumni. whr.tn/4dBDD0q

In 2026, Philadelphia is a primetime player on the world's sporting stage, hosting @MarchMadnessMBB, the @FIFAWorldCup, the @PGAChampionship, and the @MLB All-Star Game. But what will it take to translate such global attention into lasting economic impact? Join us April 28 live on LinkedIn for a panel discussion on how hosting major sporting events can influence local economies, featuring: 📚 Wharton Professor Kevin Kaiser 🏙️ @VisitPhilly's Angela Val 🏟️ @DiscoverPHL's Larry Needle ⚽️ @PhilaUnion's Tim McDermott Register here: linkedin.com/events/7447278…

This month's insights from @Wharton! What Distinguishes Companies Generating Real AI Returns, featuring the @whartonbrain team & yours truly. linkedin.com/pulse/what-dis…

“Treating this technology as another software deployment is like receiving a mysterious alien artefact and immediately using it as a paperweight.” In a guest essay @emollick explains how to better deploy AI economist.com/by-invitation/…

New report from us: Can you prompt inject your way to an “A”? As LLMs increasingly are used as judges, people are inserting AI prompts into letters, CVs & papers. We tested whether it works. It does on older & smaller models, but not on most frontier AI: gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and-i…

@WSJ reports that some families are moving away from #529 college savings plans in favor of flexibility amid uncertainty As @Wharton's @susanwachter notes, the value of a 4 year degree is now in question. on.wsj.com/47GnDGC

AI is becoming a significant part of our daily lives, shaping how we work, think, and make decisions. But as we increasingly rely on AI tools, we must ask: How does this impact our decision-making processes? Prof. @gidin and postdoctoral researcher @steveshaw2020 recently joined the @whartonknows Ripple Effect podcast to discuss their new research into cognitive surrender – the tendency to adopt AI outputs with minimal scrutiny, overriding human intuition and deliberation: whr.tn/3NH9Qc4

This April we're celebrating @Penn AI Month! From experiential learning events like the @Wharton Hack-AI-thon to industry collabs and cutting-edge research, discover how @WhartonAIAI is advancing the future of AI in business, education, and society. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/uncategorized/…

Since appearing on our Spring '22 cover, professor @duncanjwatts and his Media Bias Detector team have been hard at work. “We’ve all experienced the divisiveness pervading popular media,” he told @Penn_Today, "So we threw our energy into investigating.” bit.ly/3PGdpQq

"Cognitive surrender is clearly real, and with it will come the atrophy of certain skills and capacities, or the absence of their development in the first place." Fantastic coverage of my recent research with @steveshaw2020 by @ezraklein at @nytimes bit.ly/4lYzpBT

Prof. @gidin and Postdoctoral Researcher @steveshaw2020 discuss their new research into cognitive surrender and AI in @Forbes. ⬇️

Mortgage rates briefly dipped below 6%—then came global conflict. In @Marketplace, Penn IUR's @susanwachter (@Wharton) explains how rising rates (now above 6.5%) are already cooling the spring housing market 🎧 bit.ly/4c7U6rM #HousingMarket #Economy #PennIUR

@PatrickAdams21 @Penn Welcome to Wharton, Patrick! 👏

With the job market finished, I am very excited to be joining the Finance Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania this July! @Wharton @Penn This would not have been possible without the tireless support and guidance of my advisors Adrien Verdelhan, Lawrence Schmidt, Jonathan Parker (@ProfJAParker), and Leonid Kogan; the other outstanding faculty at @MITSloan; a large network of helpful friends throughout the profession; and most importantly, my family. I look forward to getting to work!

🚨🚨 Excited to share our first *positive* results on AI in education! Most AI tutor work focuses on making the chatbot better. We suggest another lever: deciding what students should practice next to improve learning. We combine an LLM tutor with reinforcement learning to personalize problem sequencing using signals from student-chatbot interactions and solution attempts. We tested this in a 5-month randomized field experiment in a Python course across 10 high schools in Taipei. All students had the same course material and the same AI tutor. The only difference was adaptive vs. fixed problem sequencing. Result: across 770 students, adaptive sequencing improved performance on an in-person final exam taken without AI assistance by 0.15 SD, with larger effects for beginners. Our evidence suggests the gains came from stronger engagement and more productive AI use.

La codirectora del Banco de la República, Bibiana Taboada (@BibianaTaboada), participó hoy en un encuentro con estudiantes y docentes del MBA de la Escuela de Negocios de Wharton (@Wharton), un espacio en el que dialogó sobre la actualidad macroeconómica de Colombia y el papel del banco central en el país.

“Hey, wouldn’t it be special to be back at my alma mater?” After @PennMBB's incredible #IvyMadness victory, revisit @WhartonMagazine's Q&A with #WhartonGrad head coach Fran McCaffery (W'82): whr.tn/4sa6H3l Congrats, Coach & Quakers! 🔴🔵🏀 @PennAthletics

New Wharton research reveals why most AI investments fail to generate results — and it's not the technology. Adoption is a people and organizational challenge. Wharton's Matthew Bidwell and Beril Yalcinkaya analyzed 197 studies to find out why. 🔗 ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/insights/why-y…

Today, culture is strategy. In a recent blog for @Wharton, Lumen CEO Kate Johnson shares why culture isn’t a side project—it’s the work that makes transformation possible. Full blog: whr.tn/4s0v8Qr

Pleasure interacting with students from the Lauder Institute at @Wharton. We discussed India’s growth story, the structural drivers behind its economic expansion, and the role of digital public infrastructure, entrepreneurship and innovation in shaping the country’s development trajectory. Delighted to see strong interest and curiosity among @Wharton students about Indian economy and its evolving role in the global economy.