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WAIAI Welcomes New Appointments for 2025-2026 Academic Year

The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) is proud to welcome a distinguished group of Executives in Residence, Senior Fellows, and Visiting Scholars for the new academic year. These leaders bring diverse expertise spanning academia, industry, and public service, enriching WAIAI’s mission to advance AI and analytics in business, research, education, and society. Together, they ...Read More

September 18, 2025

Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative Welcomes New Advisory Board Members

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The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative is pleased to announce the addition of five distinguished leaders to its Advisory Board: David Dase, WG’94, Pooja Daswani, WG’11, David Gallo, W’95, Samantha Greenberg, W’98, and Ashish Shah, W’92. Read More

August 8, 2025

The Complexities of Auditing Large Language Models: Lessons from Hiring Experiments

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As AI becomes a fixture in hiring, evaluation, and policy decisions, a new study funded by the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative offers a rigorous look at a critical question: Do race and gender shape how Large Language Models (LLMs) evaluate people? If so, how can we tell? The answer is, according to Prasanna “Sonny” ...Read More

August 4, 2025

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Understanding AI’s Impact on Productivity, GDP, and Federal Debt

Wharton professor of business economics and public policy discusses how artificial intelligence will affect productivity, growth, and long-term government finances.Read More

Monetizing AI Platforms: Freemium Models, Sponsored Bots, and Beyond

Wharton marketing professor discusses how companies are approaching monetization, consumer trust, and sustainability in artificial intelligence.Read More

Can AI Be Energy Efficient?

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AI’s rapid growth poses major energy and sustainability challenges. Researchers from Wharton and Penn are leading a multidisciplinary initiative to find solutions.Read More

What’s the Real Value of AI?

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In a recent episode of Where AI Works, Wharton’s Serguei Netessine spoke with Tereza Nemessanyi from Microsoft about how the firm is trying to help its customers deploy and monetize AI.Read More

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“These new concentrations allow students to further demonstrate their aptitude in multiple disciplines of business.” – Dr. Richard Waterman, Deputy Vice Dean for Wharton’s EMBA Program

Wharton’s EMBA Program Gains Two New Concentrations in Healthcare, Business Analytics

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“Having all these people together, sharing the same mindset, and the chance to talk with them is an opportunity you wouldn’t simply find by attending school, going to classes and participating in club meetings.” – Aashika Vishwanath, CIS’26

Data Drives Humanity at Wharton & Penn Engineering’s Women in Data Science Conference

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“Our program seeks to help students fully tap into their potential and to ensure that we continue to develop bold thinkers who will be prepared for the challenges of new sources and new statistical problems.” – Dylan Small, the Universal Furniture Professor and Chair of Statistics and Data Science

Uniting Great Minds, Wharton’s Stat Bridge MA Program Takes Flight

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Visual Marketing, taught by Wharton Prof. Barbara Kahn and Wharton Neuroscience Initiative’s Zab Johnson, introduces students to the latest innovations in modern, digital marketing.

Neuroscience and Marketing Meet in the Classroom

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