Future of the Business World is a monthly podcast from the Wharton Global Youth Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Inspired by the Program’s online course of the same name, Future of the Business World features teen entrepreneurs from around the world who are launching startups and products, and learning so much about business along the way. Each month, we will introduce you to a new teen innovator, discussing innovations, inspirations and the themes that define his o ...
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A Budding Bio Entrepreneur Makes Nutritional Gummies for Teens
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Start-up Brand Chases New 'Tea Friends' and Profits for Yunnan Farmers
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wharton's Investment Competition Sparks a Passion for Finance
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Combating Hunger while Celebrating Community Diversity
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly 20-minute show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Cakepop Wisdom: 'Your Business Is a Reflection of You'
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A Growing Entrepreneurial Mindset Opens a Startup to Opportunities
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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E-commerce, Blue Butterflies and Creative Entrepreneurship
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Shining a Light on Health and Fitness in the South Side of Chicago
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Using Your Eyes as a Window into Your Mind
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Genvizion's Global Citizens Create Connection through Collaboration
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sneakers, $50 Keychains, and Lessons Learned from Reselling
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Coming to you from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this monthly show features teen entrepreneurs from around the world. These young innovators and changemakers are the future of the business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Raising Awareness about Women's Health and FemTech
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The Launch Project Connects Women to a Future of Leadership
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A Competitive Debater Finds Her Place in Public Relations
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Quantifying Emotions to Improve Mental Health
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The Minvest Mission to Empower Gen Z Investors
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Fighting for Asian-American Representation in Media and Education
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An App for Short-form Audio Content that Appeals to the Neurodiverse
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Championing Financial Education in Schools
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Laila Alam's Vision for a More Just and Inclusive Art Market
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The Power of Technology Lifts Sales for India's Book Vendors
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Developing a Monitoring System to Protect Crops from Disease
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A Fashion Label Changes the Mindset about 'Made in Indonesia'
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A Wharton Global Youth Program interview with young fashion entrepreneur Cornel Suhartono. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Giving Migrant Workers in Singapore Access to Healthy Food
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This month's conversation takes us to Southeast Asia. Jiaheng Yin is a teenage social entrepreneur from Singapore with a mission to help the migrant worker community through sustainability and social equity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Tackling Social Inequality One Fresh Apple At a Time
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Fruits of Labor, a nonprofit founded by high school student Carrie Lange, has gleaned 300 pounds of fruit from neighbors' trees and distributed them to the food insecure. We talk to Carrie about her entrepreneurial process, as well as her broader mission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Footwear that Is Helping the Planet and India's Cobblers
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High school students Divya Sijwali and Parth Puri share the story of Tyron (derived from the British spelling of tyre), a fashion footwear brand that crafts quality sandals and slippers out of old, discarded tires. Tyron’s business model is not only ecologically driven, but also economically powerful, with a commitment to pay a fair and consistent …
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Cabbage Rolls, Resilience and Our Place As Global Citizens
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High school student Jasa Oliver has created a website “How to Support Ukraine”, a comprehensive hub of nonprofits benefiting Ukrainians — everything from charities that help the war effort and children, to those that support investigative journalism, the environment and animals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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On this episode we meet Amiya Chokhawala, whose nonprofit works to inspire more young women to embrace STEM learning and define themselves as scientists, coders, engineers and mathematicians. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Confronting Educational Equity and Student Wellness
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Dashawn Sheffield of Newark, N.J., talks to Wharton Global Youth about his drive toward leadership and working to alleviate some of his peers' greatest challenges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Optimized Business Plans for the Small Business Economy
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Two high school students who connected in the Wharton Pre-Baccalaureate Program in the summer of 2021 have since put some entrepreneurial energy behind applying what they learned to the real world – specifically, to help small businesses. Gabriela Sirén and Henry Eisenhardt talk analytics, their new appreciation for small business, and making a dua…
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Launching a Healthy Sports Drink By Gen Z for Gen Z
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A discussion with high school senior Alana Andrews, a teen innovator from Virginia who has embraced entrepreneurship with her whole mind and heart. She exudes passion as she shares her story of launching The Swey Corporation, a healthy sports beverage business with products created by Gen Z for Gen Z that was inspired by her own pre-Diabetes diagno…
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A Virtual Reality for Nervous New Drivers
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Any road warrior will tell you — it’s a jungle out there! The congested highways of our lives make it all the more critical to feel confident when you get behind the wheel and head toward the traffic. While many 16-year-olds are excited by the prospect of driving and the freedom it affords, getting your driver’s permit and license can also be daunt…
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Students in Vietnam Give Small Loans to Low-income Borrowers
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This month, we welcome Vy Hoang to our Future of the Business World podcast (you can listen to the podcast by clicking the arrow above). Vy, a high school senior at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, tuned in from her home in Hanoi, Vietnam, to talk about her microfinance organization, […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio…
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The Sweet Allure of Mission-driven Baking
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One of the best examples of social entrepreneurship is the humble bake sale, presenting an enticing spread of cakes and cookies on a table and selling them to raise money for a cause, like your school’s senior class trip or donations to a local charity. For some, that one table […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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A Mini Goldendoodle Inspires Pet-Tech Innovation
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Pet owners are familiar with the booming billion-dollar pet-technology market, including everything from smart pet doors to high-tech crates, beds, feeders, bowls and toys. Karan Dalal, a high school student and long-time dog owner, was no stranger to these clever gadgets, especially from his home in the heart of tech […] Hosted on Acast. See acast…
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Clean energy, educational equity, climate action, financial literacy: these are only a few of the serious global issues that demand innovative solutions. If you want to read more of them, check out our list of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Today’s high school students, a.k.a. Generation Z, are thinking […] Hosted on Acast. See …
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Moniola Odunsi, 16 and a junior at The Madeira School just outside of Washington, D.C. talks about the software platform she and her teammates are developing, as well as her passion for racial justice issues and her belief that “passive activism is not going to produce change.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Two Innovators Take Us Inside the Entrepreneurship Journey
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A few months back, Sruthi Rayaprolu and Ujjayi Pamidigantam, two high school seniors living on opposite sides of the United States, reached out to let us know about their book for young entrepreneurs: “How to Catapult Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide.” Turns out, both of them are entrepreneurs in their […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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A Girl Scout Advocates for Redefining Success
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Naomi Porter, our March 2021 Future of the Business World podcast guest, embraced entrepreneurship when she was only 11 years old with her first venture, Spice It Up. Now 16 and a high school junior in California, Naomi is using her business experience and Girl Scouts of the USA platform to […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform…
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Adventures in Group Innovation and E-Learning
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On this month’s episode of Future of the Business World, Rylan Robb, a high school student from Mozambique, Africa, shares his experience of launching an entrepreneurial idea as part of a team. While attending the Wharton Global Youth Program’s Future of the Business World online course, Rylan and his co-founders […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/…
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Building an App for the Scoliosis Community
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In the past year, Christine Sinn, our guest on this month's Future of the Business World podcast, took to heart some recent advice about thinking like an entrepreneur in times of crisis. In an article on that topic, Wharton professor Lori Rosenkopf told us: “Being confined during the pandemic is […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i…
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A Lemonade Stand Inspires a Finance Project in Colombia
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In our fourth Future of the Business World podcast episode, we travel to Bogota, Colombia by way of Florida. High school student Camilo Saiz, who has a passion for finance, moved to the U.S. from Colombia when he was 12, and yet he never lost his connection to and compassion […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Future of the Business World: Sanjana Yeddula on Raising Gen Z’s Political Awareness
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In September 2020, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched its first podcast series, Future of the Business World, which explores the motivations and creations of young entrepreneurs from around the world. The project was inspired by the program's Future of the Business World online course, launched in the summer of 2020. Be […] Hosted on Acast. …
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Future of the Business World: Cool Sneakers and ‘Creative Destruction’ with Jiro Noor
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In September 2020, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched its first podcast, Future of the Business World, which explores the motivations and creations of young entrepreneurs from around the world. In case you missed it, be sure to listen to our debut episode with Rucha Mehendale. This month, we travel […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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A New Podcast Featuring Teen Innovators Explores the Future of the Business World
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Starting with this episode, the Wharton Global Youth Program is excited to launch a new audio podcast, Future of the Business World. Inspired by an online course of the same name that the Global Youth team created for high school students when summer 2020 went virtual, Future of the Business […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
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Jordan Williams on Overcoming Challenges and Choosing Your Own Path
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Jordan Williams, 21, is a senior at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. While sophomores in high school in Atlanta, Georgia, Williams and his friend founded the Young Moguls Brand, an urban clothing line that promotes entrepreneurship. Williams’ venture inspired his journey to Wharton, where he has learned so much […] Hosted on Acast. S…
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Valentina Losada on Getting Experience in the Field of Management Consulting
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McKinsey & Company’s practices have been in the news of late, in part because South Bend, Indiana, mayor and U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg worked for the big-name consulting firm after graduating from Oxford in 2007. The global company, which has more than $10 billion in revenues, 27,000 employees and […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com…
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Princess Aghayere Shares Her Love of Basketball to Inspire Young West African Women
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Princess Aghayere has been called the “silent weapon” on the University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team. In her position as forward, she had a great season this year, which happened to be her final year as a college senior. Aghayere, who lived in Nigeria, Africa, until she was 10, discovered […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo…
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Julia Coquard on Creativity and Authenticity in the Beauty Business
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Knowledge@Wharton High School's Emmie Stratakis sat down recently with Penn junior Julia Coquard to discuss her teen years as a well-known beauty blogger and makeup artist in Sweden through her blog Makeup Is Art, which she ran from 2010 to 2016. After getting her makeup done (check it out!), Emmie […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor…
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