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From Oversight to Advantage: Governing AI with Confidence

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For firms deploying AI, the tech’s upside is real: operational efficiencies, enhanced insights, and new capabilities. However, the risks around bias, data quality, and model accuracy are significant, to say the least. In conversation with the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative, Kevin Werbach, faculty lead of Wharton’s Accountable AI Lab, and other thought leaders offer ...Read More

May 1, 2025

“AI Across Disciplines” Event Kicks Off Exciting New Vision for Wharton and Penn

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On Tuesday, April 1, the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn AI initiative hosted AI Across Disciplines at Amy Gutmann Hall. This panel-style conversation featured affiliated AI faculty who demonstrated the potential benefits and challenges of AI in their respective fields. Read More

April 3, 2025

Introducing the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative’s Executive in Residence Program

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The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative is thrilled to welcome Ajay Anand, Senior Vice President, Global Services, Strategy & Business Services, Johnson & Johnson and Achim Welter, WG’08, Senior Director ERP, Digital & IT Strategy, The Hershey Company, as our inaugural Executives in Residence. This program is designed to bring industry-leading expertise into the heart of Wharton’s ...Read More

March 27, 2025

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Focus on the Future: An Interview with PagerDuty’s Jennifer Tejada

Wharton’s Patti Williams talks with Jennifer Tejada, CEO of digital operations management firm PagerDuty, about the importance of adapting to change.Read More

AI’s Impact on Productivity and Innovation | Daniel Rock

Professor Daniel Rock explains how AI can impact productivity from the top down.Read More

Five Ways Gen AI Is Changing Workplace Identity

At this year’s SXSW Conference, Wharton’s Stefano Puntoni spoke with Google chief strategist Neil Hoyne about the impact of generative AI on employees and the workplace. Read More

Tired of Chatbots? Here’s How They Could Improve

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AI-powered chatbots are being deployed by companies to handle everything from booking travel to helping shoppers choose the right outfit. What makes some more effective than others? 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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