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Income and wealth inequality has worsened considerably, and the idea behind the American dream that ”able and hard-working citizens can move upward freely from one [class] to the next … is less true than it used to be,” according to this opinion piece ...

Fourteen years later, in April 1885, Edith Jones married Edward Wharton in the Chapel. It was a “very quiet” ceremony, The New York Times reported in 1885. Three years earlier, Wharton had sparked gossip after breaking off her engagement to Harry ...

How do you measure the success of financial education for high school students? Get some 80 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors from around the world into a high-tech conference room atop Wharton's Huntsman Hall, and let their financial ...

Kunal Sarda is the co-founder of Verbalizeit, and started the company while he was studying at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kunal Sarda has lived in over twenty-five countries, and this lead for him to become passionate about ...

Knowledge@Wharton: What are some key takeaways of the paper? Harrington: To answer that question, let me say that the paper makes two contributions. First, it puts forth a theoretical framework to think through these issues and understand, “Well, when ...

“The battleground is widening,” said Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader, who is also co-director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative. He noted that many of the existing cable-satellite-telco companies are branching out beyond TV to the ...