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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

Wharton AI & Analytics Accelerator Helps RxSense Tackle AI Challenges in Healthcare

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Rick Bates, WG’96, CEO of RxSense, joined the Wharton AI & Analytics Accelerator to explore new solutions to two high-priority challenges: automating long-range drug pricing forecasts and reverse-engineering pharmacy benefit plans. Through the 8-week collaboration, RxSense gained fresh modeling approaches, actionable AI frameworks, and a clearer path to full automation—outcomes that are now directly shaping ...Read More

June 23, 2025

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Exploring the Benefits and Risks of AI-Powered Innovation

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Wharton associate professor of marketing discusses how artificial intelligence is changing the way people and companies approach creativity.Read More

Back-to-School: Navigating AI’s Impact on Student Learning and Motivation

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Wharton associate professor of operations, information and decisions discusses the implications of giving students unrestricted access to artificial intelligence tools in schools.Read More

Is AI Pushing Us to Break the Talent Pipeline?

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Junior employees are losing opportunities to develop their skills as more companies rely on AI for entry-level tasks, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.Read More

Six Tactics to Get Better Results From AI

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In this Nano Tool for Leaders, learn how to create more effective AI prompts using insights from Wharton research.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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