Wharton launches Ivy League’s first certification program in the metaverse

Kevin Werbach outlines three takeaways about Wharton's new certificate program on the emerging technology. This six-week online program on Business in the Metaverse will run from Sept. 12 to Nov. 6, making it the first Ivy League certificate program on the metaverse.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Travel and the middle class

With the inflation boom, how long will travel be sustainable? Even as ticket prices are going up, the demand for air travel remains high. The crowding is compounded by an overall shortage of pilots, a lack of staff to check in luggage and long security lines to get to the gates, says Gad Allon.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

A Vision for Addressing Climate Change through Engineering Research

The Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) released a report delineating bold, fundamental research priorities the engineering research community can pursue to address climate change. Vijay Kumar played critical roles in the development of this first-of-its-kind event and report.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Ubiquity of Data

Why people believe conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories have real world and devastating consequences—think QAnon and Pizzagate, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and Covid-19 misinformation, but why do people believe them despite overwhelming evidence debunking them? Dolores Albarracín discussed how conspiracy theories arise and spread on this episode of Radio Times.

Communication
Health Management
Nursing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

A New Way to Think About Customer Centricity

Addressing the many needs within a single person requires a modern approach to customer lifetime value. Eric Bradlow spoke with Wharton Magazine about how the modern definition of CLV includes how a single customer’s needs change over time.

Economics
Education
Marketing
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

TV news top driver of political echo chambers in U.S.

Duncan Watts and colleagues found that 17% of Americans consume television news from partisan left- or right-leaning sources compared to just 4% online. For TV news viewers, this audience segregation tends to last month over month.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Dolores Albarracín Named Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has recently appointed Dolores Albarracín as its newest editor. Albarracín will edit one of the journal's three sections, Attitudes and Social Cognition, using her ample experience as a researcher and scholar to guide the journal, starting on January 1, 2023.

Communication
Health Management
Nursing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Smarter health: How Greece used AI to reopen its borders and curb COVID

On Boston’s WBUR, Hamsa Bastani discusses how Greece used artificial intelligence to speed up the reopening of its borders during the pandemic even though the country had limited testing capacity and little money.

Operations Information and Decisions

Resilience in Networked Systems

Racial Equity and Data Privacy

In this episode of the Race and Regulation Podcast, Anita Allen reveals how race-neutral privacy laws in the U.S. have failed to address the unequal burdens faced online by Black Americans, whose personal data are used in racially discriminatory ways.

Law
Philosophy

Social Norms for Algorithms

Penn Students Research Which Americans Are Most Isolationist — and It May Not Be Who You Think

Diana Mutz’s course on “Media, Public Opinion, and Globalization,” designed to teach and implement research methodology, discovered a major shift in young Americans’ isolationist views on foreign aid.

Communication
Political Science

Consensus and Contagion in Society

News

Wharton launches Ivy League’s first certification program in the metaverse

Travel and the middle class

A Vision for Addressing Climate Change through Engineering Research

Why people believe conspiracy theories

A New Way to Think About Customer Centricity

TV news top driver of political echo chambers in U.S.

Dolores Albarracín Named Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Smarter health: How Greece used AI to reopen its borders and curb COVID

Racial Equity and Data Privacy

Penn Students Research Which Americans Are Most Isolationist — and It May Not Be Who You Think