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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

🚨🚨 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.

Delighted to interact with graduate students from the @Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, who are in New Delhi as part of their immersive course “Enterprise Growth Through Innovation and Ecosystems: The Indian Perspective.” Shared my views on the changing contours of global trade and how a vibrant innovation ecosystem is strengthening India’s growth trajectory. Encouraging to see bright young minds engaging with India’s growth story and the vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047.

Meet the hosts of @WMoneyball, our sports analytics podcast where four @Wharton profs and outside experts explore how the industry can harness the power of data. @EBradlow, Shane Jensen, @BCMassey & @AdiWyner share the teams/players that instilled their lifelong love of sports.

AI may boost individual performance, but it can limit how teams think, according to a study by @Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Gideon Nave, along with Lennart Meincke G23 GEN24. Read more: whr.tn/46X0WOn

Meet our 2026 #WhartonGrad keynote speakers! 🎓 WEMBA: Ikdeep Singh (WG’07), @MarsGlobal 🎓 Undergraduate: Ynon Kreiz (PAR’26), @Mattel 🎓 MBA: @DavidSolomon, @GoldmanSachs Learn more: whr.tn/graduation

President Trump says new child savings accounts can build #generationalwealth, but @Wharton economist @OS_Mitchell emphasizes that consistent contributions and #longterminvesting are key to realizing meaningful rewards. bit.ly/3MY32q8

Wharton's legacy lives on in many big and small ways, including the physical reminders of his work throughout campus. In re-reading his founding principles for the school, this quote stood out, as the charge to advance our surrounding communities feels just as urgent today.

Happy 200th birthday to our founder, Joseph Wharton! 🎉 An industrialist, reformer, and philanthropist, his pioneering vision led to the creation of the world's first collegiate business school in 1881 – a distinction we've been #WhartonProud to carry ever since. Learn about Joseph Wharton’s life and legacy in honor of this bicentennial: whr.tn/4rc7AY7

Ahead of the Philadelphia Flower Show opening this weekend, Matt Rader WG11, president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, reflected on the nation's 250th anniversary inspired this year's theme “Rooted: Origins of American Gardening." whr.tn/4r7gyWB

Congratulations to #WhartonUndergrad students Yash Iyer (W’29) and Bhuranyu Mahajan (W’29) on being part of the 2026 Y-Prize Competition winning team, CarboWells! 👏#WhartonProud

Professors Benjamin Keys and Philip Mulder analyzed millions of property insurance payments, finding sharp increases in premiums in recent years. Read more about Keys’s research and how it inspired his new Real Estate Data Analytics course. whr.tn/46XFaKw

Associate Partner at @McKinsey by day, skating analyst by night. ⛸️ That’s the life of #WhartonGrad Jackie Wong (GAr’07, WG’15), who is currently at the #MilanoCortina2026 Winter @Olympics reporting on all things figure skating for @RockerSkating, his figure skating analysis website and podcast, and as a correspondent for @Peacock. Created as part of a project for a communications and social media strategy course he took during his #WhartonMBA, Jackie has now grown Rocker Skating to over 100,000 social media followers across multiple platforms and regularly travels to cover national and international skating competitions. “Figure skating has always been part passion and part escape from the norm for me, ever since middle school,” says Jackie, who started skating when he was 11 and founded the Penn Figure Skating club while earning his Master’s in Architecture at the @WeitzmanSchool.

Welcome to the inaugural class of the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Master of Science in Quantitative Finance program – @Wharton's first new degree offering in 50 years. I can't wait to see their impact on a rapidly maturing field as they carry forward a legacy built over generations.

“When I think of Pub, I think of community,” says former @Wharton MBA Pub co-president Dempsey Simonis WG23 (pictured right). Look back at decades’ worth of good times to see why: whr.tn/497zcIb

Which #SBLX commercial stood out to the @Wharton Marketing Matters hosts? We asked @AmReed2 & @BarbaraKahn for their takes and the answer was clear: @DunkinDonuts'​ "Good Will Dunkin'" ad featuring stars of the past tapped into nostalgia and pop culture aligned with its brand.