Knowledge@Wharton High School
By Knowledge@Wharton High School
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Podcast Description
Knowledge@Wharton High School, KWHS for short, is an online journal for students interested in finding out more about the world of business. Explore feature stories about teen-run companies and business trends; read articles on how the economy works and how careers take shape; listen to and view audio and video podcasts spotlighting business’s most creative and colorful characters in fields like sports, entertainment, retail and hi-tech. As part of Knowledge@Wharton, a network of global online business publications published by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, KWHS is where you can discover business now. Consider it your portal into a world that touches every aspect of your daily experience — from the malls you shop in, to the social networking sites you join, to the companies some of you are already dreaming about launching. Business insights from KWHS will help you act on ideas that can shape the rest of your lives and, in some cases, help change the world.
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CleanA ‘Gigantic Science Nerd’ in High School Advocates Opening Your Heart to New Experiences and Unexpected Paths | G.J. Melendez-Torres graduated from Wharton in 2011 with a BS in economics (health care management & policy) and the School of Nursing with a BS in nursing. He is now continuing toward a master's degree in advanced practice and psychiatric/mental health nursing. As a result of winning a Marshall Scholarship, Melendez-Torres is currently studying at the University of Oxford, free of cost. Knowledge@Wharton High School’s Sherry Yang caught up with G.J. before graduation to discuss his various interests, including his deep involvement in interfaith issues outside the classroom. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Campus Quad to the Boardroom: Jason Schutzbank on Life as a Student and Serial Entrepreneur | Jason Schutzbank has been an entrepreneur since he was 14 and building websites for family and friends. He co-founded a social media company while in college at Emory University, balancing the stress of student life with being a top executive at a publicly traded firm. Today, the 23-year-old runs a business that advises companies on how to use Facebook and Twitter in their marketing. Schutzbank recently talked to Knowledge@Wharton High School about his experiences and offered advice to budding entrepreneurs. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChristopher Bolden-Newsome: The Fight for Food Justice | When was the last time you scarfed down a Big Mac at McDonald’s? For some high school students, fast food is a way of life — and not a very healthy one. Christopher Bolden-Newsome, community farm director and educator with Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm, a program that helps inner-city kids at Philadelphia high schools plant their own urban gardens and learn about nutrition and business, is a leader in the food-justice movement. He talks about his Seeds for Learning work and why the food justice community, which advocates access for all to good, healthy foods, is growing. | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeth Goldman of Honest Tea: The ‘Perfect Ingredient’ for Social Impact | Seth Goldman is raising awareness one tea leaf at a time. As president of Honest Tea, the company he started with a Yale professor, he has found a way to sell a healthier cold tea beverage and quench his thirst for social and environmental change. Goldman travels the world, visiting communities where his company’s organic teas are harvested and learning about the cultures that help grow his business. His career as an entrepreneur began when he was a kid selling used golf balls and lemonade. He now channels that energy into an Honest business with a passionate mission. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanShiv Khemka on Leadership and Tapping Your Core Values to Navigate Life’s Challenges | As vice chairman of the Sun Group, Shiv Khemka has led his global company through many difficult situations – all the while able to fall back on his own deeply rooted value system. In this podcast, Khemka talks to Knowledge@Wharton High School about why it is important to start focusing at a young age on principles and leadership. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBrandon Martin: A High School Student’s Taste of Fresh Eggplant and Entrepreneurship | While most teens hit the beach each summer, high school senior Brandon Martin is up to his elbows in ochre and watermelon as an employee of Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm, a program that helps Philadelphia high schoolers plant their own urban gardens and learn about nutrition and business. Martin, who wants to become a chef, doesn’t plan to come out of the garden anytime soon. Knowledge@Wharton High School talked to Martin when he was a sophomore about his summer experience and more. | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSam Cox Spends Her Sunday Mornings with High-Tech Mummies | While most of us rarely think of mummies unless it’s Halloween, Sam Cox constantly has the cloth-wrapped creatures on her mind. A graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, Cox has been studying anthropology that uses the latest technology, like CT scans, to examine ancient specimens. She sat down with Knowledge@Wharton High School to discuss her path from high school to anthropology and how technology is changing her field. | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWharton Business Plan Winners Brian Smith and Irene Susantio: The Small Wonders of Nanotechnology | Tiny is SO in these days. Nanotechnology, technology that is small enough to fit inside a computer chip, is a field that is attracting lots of young technologists. Wharton MBA graduates Brian Smith and Irene Susantio -- otherwise known as Team Solixia -- are putting tiny into action in health care. Their “Hot Dot” cancer treatment is the size of a small protein fragment yet 20 times more powerful in diagnosing and treating cancer than current methods. Brian and Irene have big plans for their business, which received a grant from the National Cancer Institute in August, 2010, as they spread the word about the small wonders of nanotechnology. | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFarish Sawyer Inspires Better Students and Teachers with the Breakthrough Collaborative | All middle school students are not created equal. Enter the Breakthrough Collaborative, a national organization that gives 6th, 7th and 8th graders around the country the opportunity to improve their education and reach their dreams. Farish Sawyer, a senior program director of Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia, talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School about enriching the lives of young students, while also mentoring high school and college students to become excellent teachers. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanet Monge Talks Skeletal Remains, the Museum Business and Her Career as a Physical Anthropologist | Janet Monge says she was a born anthropologist. Even so, it took her a lot of years of soul searching before she decided to make the stuff of skeletons her actual career. Now, as acting curator in charge of physical anthropology at the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, she travels as close as Malvern, Pa., to research skeletal remains at a mass railroad worker gravesite and as far away as Croatia to study the biggest collection of Neanderthal fossils. Knowledge@Wharton High School talked to Monge about her fascinating work and her thoughts about how museums are challenged to move into the future. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCarter Roberts of the World Wildlife Fund Journeys to the Woods, the Amazon and a Legendary Place for Tigers | Carter Roberts is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, a nonprofit group that works to conserve nature around the world. From his childhood exploring the woods near his home, to his career protecting habitats in the far corners of the earth, Roberts has fostered a connection to the natural world. His job is as diverse as the ecosystems he visits. One day he may be negotiating with the president of a corporation, and the next he is sitting on a dirt floor talking with villagers about the value of saving tigers. In the end his message is the same: we’d better start protecting nature before it’s too late. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Episodes |
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- Category: K-12
- Language: English
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