How to Break Into the Workforce in an AI-Driven Job Market
Wharton professor Matthew Bidwell warns that hiring pipelines in consulting and tech are slowing, making entry‑level roles more competitive. AI tools now enable candidates to submit applications at scale, intensifying the talent pool. Despite automation, Bidwell stresses that networking, personal connections, and targeted outreach remain critical differentiators. He also highlights internships as a low‑risk way for graduates to explore careers and build marketable skills.
Generative AI Won’t Create Value on Its Own
Generative AI has rapidly become a general‑purpose technology, but its raw capabilities alone do not guarantee business value. Professor Rahul Kapoor outlines three faces of technology value creation—emerging, enabling, and embedding—to help executives navigate the shift from invention to profitable...
How Homeownership Helps Build Wealth
A new NBER study led by Wharton professor Fernando Ferreira shows that mortgage modifications during the Great Recession had lasting wealth benefits. Seventy‑five percent of borrowers who received forbearance or rate cuts remained homeowners through 2013, versus 49% without aid....
How a ‘Confirmation Nudge’ Can Make Customers Buy More
Researchers at Wharton found that a simple "confirmation nudge"—asking customers to confirm their choice or consider an annual plan—significantly boosts uptake of yearly subscriptions. Lab tests showed annual adoption jump from roughly one‑third to nearly half, while a children’s learning...
People-Led, Tech-Powered: Walmart’s AI Job Shift
Walmart, employing over 2.1 million associates, is rolling out a "people‑led, tech‑powered" AI strategy that embeds generative‑AI tools across scheduling, inventory and customer service. The retailer frames AI as an augmentation layer that frees staff for higher‑value tasks rather than a...
From Strategy to Shelf: How P&G Is Deploying AI
Procter & Gamble is embedding generative AI across its R&D, marketing and knowledge‑management functions, treating the technology as a "cybernetic teammate" that accelerates idea generation. In internal hackathons, individuals using AI outperformed whole teams without it, and AI‑augmented teams produced...
Is Your AI System Ethical? Try This Assessment
The Prosocial AI Index introduces a 4Ts‑4Ps scorecard that expands AI evaluation beyond efficiency to fairness, trust, talent, and environmental impact. It offers executives a concrete framework to assess whether AI systems are tailored, trained, tested, and targeted for purpose,...
How to Find Leaders Early Using Neuroscience and AI
New research from Wharton, Korn Ferry, and Lazul.ai shows that leadership potential can be detected in undergraduate students using neuroscience‑driven, AI‑enabled assessments. By measuring cognitive flexibility, attention allocation, and multidimensional risk tolerance, the study uncovers behavioral signals that precede formal...
How Geopolitics and AI Are Influencing Today’s Financial Markets
Jeremy Siegel, emeritus professor at Wharton and senior economist at WisdomTree, says the ongoing Iran conflict, Federal Reserve policy, and rapid AI adoption are reshaping market dynamics. He warns that heightened geopolitical risk is pressuring equity valuations while the Fed’s...
How Analytics Shape NFL Team Building With Brandt Tilis
Brandt Tilis, executive vice president of Football Operations for the Carolina Panthers, appeared on a podcast to dissect how analytics shape NFL roster construction, draft strategy, and quarterback contract negotiations. He detailed the interplay between data models, traditional film review,...
Can AI Manage an Entire Medical Decision Process?
Researchers placed the multimodal LLM Gemini Pro 2.5 into the BodyInteract acute‑care simulation and evaluated it across four emergency scenarios. The AI stabilized patients and completed cases at rates comparable to, and often faster than, more than 14,000 medical‑student runs, with diagnostic...
Maximize Your Utility: Career, Family, and Time Strategies
The article proposes a utility‑based framework for women navigating high‑pressure periods such as early parenthood, urging them to prioritize long‑term fulfillment over short‑term multitasking. It outlines five actionable practices—defining a personal utility function, ruthlessly prioritizing time, strategic outsourcing, thinking in...
Will LLMs Replace Coders? Not Entirely
Former Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal warned that hand‑written code will become obsolete as generative AI matures. A new working paper by Wharton professor Neha Sharma and Tulane’s Simin Li shows that after ChatGPT’s launch, routine coding questions on Stack Overflow fell...
What’s Your Chronotype? How Brain Science Can Boost Performance
A joint study by the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and Slalom examined how individual chronotypes—natural sleep‑wake rhythms—affect creative performance. Using the Morningness‑Eveningness Questionnaire and a divergent‑thinking task, researchers found that employees generated more ideas and higher‑quality concepts when work aligned with...
How Labor Market Power Shapes the Impact of Monetary Policy
A new Federal Reserve paper shows that labor‑market power dramatically reshapes how monetary policy affects employment and wages. Firms with low monopsony power increase their wage bills about 50% more than high‑monopsony firms after a 25‑basis‑point rate cut. Oligopsonistic markets...
