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🎙️ Get to know our five podcasts, where @Wharton professors bring you insights every week on the biggest issues shaping business: whr.tn/podcasts
Featuring these hosts and many more experts: @EBradlow @BCMassey @AdiWyner @BarbaraKahn @AmReed2 @KHosanagar @SNetesin
Could watching sports help us feel less lonely?
@Kennedy_School's @Todd_Rogers_ joined @WMoneyball to explore the science of sports fandom and social connection, including how merchandise sparks conversation among fans.
Full episode available wherever you get your podcasts.
What shapes the financial decisions we make under pressure? Patrick Adams studies how economic risks affect household finances—and the choices investors make.
Our video series introducing @Wharton's newest faculty members continues with Adams, an assistant professor of finance.
Accepting AI’s answers without questioning them? @Wharton’s @GidiN and Steven Shaw call it “cognitive surrender.”
In their experiments, participants accepted AI’s wrong answers over 80% of the time after consulting it.
🎨: @marissashandell (Research Doodles on Instagram)
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What gets people talking about a brand they love?
SET Active's Lindsey Carter joined hosts Barbara Kahn and @amreed2 on our Marketing Matters podcast to discuss turning loyal fans into brand advocates.
Tune in to the full interview wherever you get your podcasts.
We're curious — what are YOU most curious about right now?
@Wharton research covers a lot of ground. We’d love to know what interests you most and how you like to keep up with us.
Take our 5-minute readership survey → whr.tn/4i1cF47
What makes sports betting so tempting to Gen Z, even at the expense of retirement savings?
On our This Week in Business podcast @Wharton neuroscientist @MichaelLouisPl1 explains how quick rewards, social pressure, and easy access can draw young people in: whr.tn/4sojoss
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My new book, Co-Existence, is out today. It is a guide to how to live & work in a world where AI is sometimes, but not always, better than you.
(And, for the release, I worked with Opus 5.5 to make a quite interesting experience for the book's website: co-existence.ai/)
Our series introducing @Wharton’s newest faculty members returns with Thomas Sargent, a Nobel Prize–winning economist who joins Wharton as the Rowan Distinguished Professor of Finance.
Stay tuned every other Monday to meet the rest of this year’s new crop of professors.
Who controls a brand’s values after it’s sold?
@Wharton’s @ME_Schweitzer explores the Ben & Jerry’s dispute and lessons for founders and buyers on mission and control in the latest episode of our This Week in Business podcast.
Tune in here: whr.tn/47V4gcm
AI is informing lending and investment decisions. What happens as it becomes more autonomous?
@Wharton’s Winston Dou explores the benefits, risks to competition and market stability, and need for human oversight.
Tune in to this episode of Ripple Effect: whr.tn/4ySACAC
What can bowling teach us about building a brand?
Julie Zukof, VP of Brand at @LuckyStrikeEnt, joins @BarbaraKahn and @AmReed2 on Marketing Matters to explore how consumer insights, nostalgia and brand positioning can give customers a reason to return: whr.tn/3TVkUFB
How will AI change investing? Is the financial system ready?
Are we heading for a boom or a bubble? What happens to jobs in finance?
Exploring these questions and more, all four episodes of our special Future of Finance series are now live: whr.tn/4i3905A
How transformative will AI be for the economy?
In episode three of our four-part Future of Finance series we explore what financial markets reveal about AI’s potential and whether today’s investment signals growth or a bubble.
Watch now: whr.tn/4daAGmn
How does extreme heat affect the way we learn and work?
@Wharton's R. Jisung Park examines how rising temperatures can shape student performance, workplace safety, productivity and economic opportunity.
More on the economic impacts of extreme heat: whr.tn/4xEUwNS
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A new paper from Wharton public policy professor @BerkouwerS finds that clean cookstove subsidies can be a highly cost-effective way to reduce carbon emissions, helping settle questions about whether these programs deliver on their climate promise: whr.tn/4y3CdmF
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In the second episode of our four-part Future of Finance series, @Wharton's Itay Goldstein speaks with @BankOfEngland's Sarah Breeden about the risks AI could pose to financial markets and how regulators can support innovation while maintaining stability: whr.tn/4yMBy8W
In an exclusive exercept from her new book, Situated, @Wharton & @BehaviorChange's @AngelaDuckw explores the idea of “situational agency,” or taking charge of your circumstances and choosing the people, places and environments that bring out your best. whr.tn/4cT3qA5
How does the Federal Reserve actually work?
With the Fed back in focus, we’re revisiting an explainer from earlier this summer featuring Wharton’s Patrick Harker and Peter Conti-Brown on the Fed’s role, structure and use of interest rates: whr.tn/4h8Uc3Q
Private credit funds often invest in assets that can be difficult to sell quickly. So what happens when more investors want to cash out at once?
Listen to analysis from @Wharton professor of finance Itay Goldstein: whr.tn/4iOYPTl
In the first episode of our new four-part Future of Finance series, @Wharton's @NickRoussanov and @GoldmanSachs' Ingrid Tierens join host and Wharton finance professor Itay Goldstein to explore what the next era of quantitative finance could look like: whr.tn/4xYFlAg