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In their new book, Wharton’s Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch explain how a “connected strategy” helps businesses create more value for themselves and their customers. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, it’s no longer good enough for a company to sell a product through...
Friendships in the workplace are valuable. But Wharton research shows they can also lead to complexities and challenges for those inside and outside the circle. Friendships at work are typically seen as being beneficial. They are expected to bring people closer, create a feel-good environment...
The Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar is the world’s most polluted. People often overlook Ulaanbaatar, not knowing where or what it is, but its environmental crisis is one that cannot be ignored. As Mongolia’s capital and largest city, Ulaanbaatar — or Ulan Bator — is home to more than...
Cambridge Analytica, a firm that has played a role in over 200 elections around the world, has been harvesting data from you and your entire network through Facebook. Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data marketing firm, has breached private information rules. Through a personality quiz...
In the wake of the opioid epidemic in America, a new public health crisis has emerged: a surge in hepatitis C cases. In 2017, the White House Opioid Commission addressed a letter to President Donald Trump noting that 142 people in America die each day due to drug overdoses. That same letter is...
Potential “bait” stories should have people reconsidering the way they watch the news. Republican politicians are trolling journalists with scandalous stories that end in a dud. Day after day, headline after headline, reporters covered the Nunes memo that, according to politicians, would...
As protection for immigrants in the United States continues to be debated, families wait in fear, not knowing where their home may lie. The Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy implemented under the Obama administration, was ordered to end by President Donald...
Mass shootings are occurring across the US in unprecedented numbers, yet the government has failed to ban some of the most deadly weapons. Gun control has been a hot topic of debate for years in America, but the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has triggered fury from...
Who is monitoring the charities that the public perceives as moral leaders? Oxfam, one of the UK’s largest and best known charities, is currently entangled in a scandal following revelations that senior staff members engaged in sexual misconduct during the 2010 Haiti earthquake recovery effort...
Women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted are making their voices heard. The US has slowly drawn the curtains back on the grim reality of the prevalence of sexual misconduct, and the nation’s leader stands at the forefront of this revelation. Considering that President Donald Trump...
Mental health experts are calling on Congress to require a thorough psychological evaluation of Donald Trump to determine his mental fitness. President Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, extreme narcissism and actions have showed that he may be willing to put the nation, and even the world,...
