Innovative SP2 Faculty-Founded Speaker Series Awarded Additional Year of Grant Funding

The Control Societies Speaker Series, founded by Ezekiel Dixon-Román, brings cutting-edge scholars to Penn, exploring how philosophical foundations of algorithms & data intersect with governmentality, surveillance, social policy, & power relations.

• Social Policy

Wharton prof explains Facebook’s new currency

In a Q&A with Penn Today, Kevin Werbach explains Facebook’s latest venture: “Libra” cryptocurrency, whether it’s actually a cryptocurrency, Facebook’s interest in it, and looming regulatory challenges.

• Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Preventative Measures

As an international leader in the use of machine learning, Richard Berk uses very large datasets with hundreds of thousands of observations and many hundreds of variables to forecast crime. Read more about his research on mass violence.

• Criminology
• Statistics

What Does Risk-Based Regulation Mean?

"In a world where risks are omnipresent, complex, and potentially extremely costly, taking a risk-based approach to regulation is essential," writes Cary Coglianese. Read more in his recent Regulatory Review op-ed.

• Law
• Political Science

Founded on an ecosystem of innovation

See Warren Center affiliates Vijay Kumar and Konrad Kording featured in Penn's recent video on innovation at the University. “If it's new, if it's novel, then it holds promise to change the world. You'll find it at Penn,” says President Amy Gutmann.

Communication Neuroscience Scholar Emily Falk Promoted to Full Professor

Emily Falk, Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing, recently received promotion to full professor. By looking at how people’s brains respond to, for example, news headlines or public health messaging, Falk’s work unlocks the unconscious and hidden dynamics in the brain that shapes our thinking.

• Communication
• Marketing
• Psychology

How the Mind Emerges from the Brain’s Complex Networks

How does the brain give rise to who we are? Dani Bassett explains how this question has led to the new field of network neuroscience, which uses a branch of mathematics, graph theory, to model the brain connections that let us read, calculate, or simply sit and tap our fingers.

• Bioengineering

What this Wharton Professor Wants Students to Know About Customer Centricity

Through two elective courses, an elaborate simulation, two books, and a Global Business Week in Finland and Sweden, Peter Fader offers students many opportunities to learn how customer centricity can drive profits. Read more about Fader's teaching and ventures.

• Marketing

The Real Reason for Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency

Facebook says its new cryptocurrency, Libra, is a tool for financial inclusion and disrupting the world’s cumbersome payment systems. In reality, there is a deeper motivation behind it, although not the one its critics imagine: Libra is the last, best hope to re-establish trust between Facebook and the world, writes Kevin Werbach.

• Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down

18 years after Apple launched the music download store, the company announced that iTunes is shutting down. Peter Fader sat down with Knowledge@Wharton to discuss the demise of iTunes and the takeaways from the Worldwide Developers Conference.

• Marketing