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Leadership

When the coronavirus pandemic began, PriceSmart CEO Sherry Bahrambeygui reset the company’s culture and found more productive ways to get things done. In a recent conversation with Wharton’s Mike Useem, she shared what she has learned.

How an ‘Employees First’ Pandemic Response Pays Off

The Problem with Heroes
How New York City’s Public Health Care System Responded to COVID-19
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Management

Scenario thinking can help organizations better anticipate and adapt to dramatic changes, increase agility and resilience, and turn uncertainty into advantage, according to the authors of this opinion piece.

Planning for the Post-COVID-19 Workforce: Four Scenarios

Will the Pandemic Cause Food Shortages?
Pandemic Playbook: What Health Care Leaders Can Learn from Management Research
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Public Policy

Strong state capacity and low economic inequality are more important than being a democracy when it comes to dealing with health emergencies like pandemics, Wharton research shows.

The Politics of Pandemics: Why Some Countries Respond Better Than Others

The Post-COVID-19 World Will Be Less Global and Less Urban
When — and How — Should the U.S. Economy Reopen?
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Innovation

Wharton’s Karl Ulrich offers guidance for entrepreneurs trying to make it to the other side of the coronavirus pandemic.

Pulling Through the Pandemic: Advice for Entrepreneurs

The Pandemic Is Turbo-charging Government Innovation: Will It Stick?
Analytics, Risk and Managing the 21st Century Supply Chain
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Marketing

New Wharton research explores why consumers are more willing to share personal information when communicating on a smartphone compared with a computer.

Why Consumers Are Willing to Share Personal Information on Smartphones

How COVID-19 Will Change the Way We Shop
From Apocalypse to Supernova: How the Pandemic Is Changing U.S. Retail
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Technology

At Penn’s Women in Data Science conference, representatives from the field discussed some of the obstacles to working successfully in an area that’s still dauntingly opaque to many.

Women in Data Science: Moving from Inclusion to Influence

Five Strategies for Putting AI at the Center of Digital Transformation
Telling the Data Story Behind Video Gaming
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Finance

As more Americans live longer lives, innovative products based on public-private partnerships could help to finance them, according to experts at the 2020 Pension Research Council Symposium.

Living to 100: How Will We Afford Longer Lives?

Oil Price Shock: What It Means for Producers and Consumers
Why Free-lunch Strategies Cause Market Crashes
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Social Impact

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, volunteer organizations like Off Their Plate are making an impact on several fronts.

Help Where It’s Needed: How Grass Roots Organizations Are Making a Difference

Confronting COVID-19: Why Firms Need to Tap Nonprofit Partnerships
Changing Communities: How to Bring Fairness into Finance
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