Future of the Business World Podcast

This month, we welcome Vy Hoang to our Future of the Business World podcast (you can listen to the podcast by clicking the arrow above). Vy, a high school senior at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, tuned in from her home in Hanoi, Vietnam, to talk about her microfinance organization, […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the best examples of social entrepreneurship is the humble bake sale, presenting an enticing spread of cakes and cookies on a table and selling them to raise money for a cause, like your school’s senior class trip or donations to a local charity. For some, that one table […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pet owners are familiar with the booming billion-dollar pet-technology market, including everything from smart pet doors to high-tech crates, beds, feeders, bowls and toys. Karan Dalal, a high school student and long-time dog owner, was no stranger to these clever gadgets, especially from his home in the heart of tech […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clean energy, educational equity, climate action, financial literacy: these are only a few of the serious global issues that demand innovative solutions. If you want to read more of them, check out our list of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Today’s high school students, a.k.a. Generation Z, are thinking […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moniola Odunsi, 16 and a junior at The Madeira School just outside of Washington, D.C. talks about the software platform she and her teammates are developing, as well as her passion for racial justice issues and her belief that “passive activism is not going to produce change.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few months back, Sruthi Rayaprolu and Ujjayi Pamidigantam, two high school seniors living on opposite sides of the United States, reached out to let us know about their book for young entrepreneurs: “How to Catapult Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide.” Turns out, both of them are entrepreneurs in their […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Naomi Porter, our March 2021 Future of the Business World podcast guest, embraced entrepreneurship when she was only 11 years old with her first venture, Spice It Up. Now 16 and a high school junior in California, Naomi is using her business experience and Girl Scouts of the USA platform to […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this month’s episode of Future of the Business World, Rylan Robb, a high school student from Mozambique, Africa, shares his experience of launching an entrepreneurial idea as part of a team. While attending the Wharton Global Youth Program’s Future of the Business World online course, Rylan and his co-founders […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the past year, Christine Sinn, our guest on this month's Future of the Business World podcast, took to heart some recent advice about thinking like an entrepreneur in times of crisis. In an article on that topic, Wharton professor Lori Rosenkopf told us: “Being confined during the pandemic is […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our fourth Future of the Business World podcast episode, we travel to Bogota, Colombia by way of Florida. High school student Camilo Saiz, who has a passion for finance, moved to the U.S. from Colombia when he was 12, and yet he never lost his connection to and compassion […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In September 2020, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched its first podcast series, Future of the Business World, which explores the motivations and creations of young entrepreneurs from around the world. The project was inspired by the program's Future of the Business World online course, launched in the summer of 2020. Be […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In September 2020, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched its first podcast, Future of the Business World, which explores the motivations and creations of young entrepreneurs from around the world. In case you missed it, be sure to listen to our debut episode with Rucha Mehendale. This month, we travel […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Starting with this episode, the Wharton Global Youth Program is excited to launch a new audio podcast, Future of the Business World. Inspired by an online course of the same name that the Global Youth team created for high school students when summer 2020 went virtual, Future of the Business […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan Williams, 21, is a senior at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. While sophomores in high school in Atlanta, Georgia, Williams and his friend founded the Young Moguls Brand, an urban clothing line that promotes entrepreneurship. Williams’ venture inspired his journey to Wharton, where he has learned so much […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

McKinsey & Company’s practices have been in the news of late, in part because South Bend, Indiana, mayor and U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg worked for the big-name consulting firm after graduating from Oxford in 2007. The global company, which has more than $10 billion in revenues, 27,000 employees and […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Princess Aghayere has been called the “silent weapon” on the University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team. In her position as forward, she had a great season this year, which happened to be her final year as a college senior. Aghayere, who lived in Nigeria, Africa, until she was 10, discovered […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Knowledge@Wharton High School's Emmie Stratakis sat down recently with Penn junior Julia Coquard to discuss her teen years as a well-known beauty blogger and makeup artist in Sweden through her blog Makeup Is Art, which she ran from 2010 to 2016. After getting her makeup done (check it out!), Emmie […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not every teenager gets to add experience working for Silicon Valley car maker Tesla to his LinkedIn profile. Dylan Diamond, a sophomore at Wharton and owner of Diamond Apps, LLC, is one of the few. Diamond, who built his first app while at Staples High in Connecticut, U.S., has been […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bjarke Gotfredsen and Judi Sandrock, co-founders of XinaBox, a company in South Africa that makes modular hardware to inspire hands-on student STEM education, were traveling in the U.S. this holiday season and stopped by Philadelphia’s Wharton campus for a visit. KWHS managing editor Diana Drake sat down with Gotfredsen to […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few weeks ago, Gimlet Media’s renowned podcast “The Pitch” — dubbed the best business podcast on startup life by Fortune — hosted its first-ever live show on the road on the Wharton School's campus. Three Philadelphia startups led by young entrepreneurs pitched their businesses in front of two well-known venture […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not that long ago, Venezuela was the fastest-growing economy in Latin America. Today, it is a country in deep crisis. KWHS interviewer Emmie Stratakis recently sat down with Wharton student and Venezuela native Eugenia Carmona to discuss the economic and humanitarian challenges facing Eugenia's family and friends back home, and what she sees for […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

If you have played or even seen Pokemon Go, then you’re already familiar with one of the hottest high-tech concepts around, augmented reality or AR. Augmented reality mixes the physical with the virtual, superimposing a computer-generated image onto the view of the real world so that it becomes an interactive […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our high school-aged readers – better known as Generation Z – intimately understand their world, navigating “Local Twitter” and knowing how to get friends’ attention with their latest “Snap Story.” And then there’s the rest of the world. While many companies and brands think they understand the best way to reach Gen […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we looked around to feature interesting summer internships on KWHS, we were happy to discover one right in our backyard. The University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – commonly called the Penn Museum – is the largest university museum in the U.S. and features collections of artifacts […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Knowledge@Wharton High School is often curious about the business talent right at our doorstep – namely undergraduate students who are exploring and pioneering in all areas of entrepreneurship and leadership. When we heard about rePurpose, a digital recyclable waste marketplace created by undergrads Peter Wang Hjemdahl, Svanika Balasubramanian and Aditya Siroya, we […] Hosted on Acast. See...