Silver Planet

06/01/2022

Are you ready?

Early baby boomers and millennials are ahead of other generations in terms of retirement preparedness, according to panelists at a recent symposium hosted by Wharton’s Pension Research Council.…Read More

06/01/2022

Teens who experienced gas price shocks of the 1970s drive less in later years, according to experts at Wharton and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.…Read More

12/09/2021

Deliveries without drivers?

Wharton’s John Paul MacDuffie analyzes Walmart’s recent milestone of operating driverless delivery trucks on a commercial route.

11/17/2021

Wharton’s Katherine Klein talks to Mary Ellen Iskenderian of Women’s World Banking, a nonprofit that is expanding financial inclusion for women.

10/23/2021

Why is change so difficult in the health care industry?

In this opinion piece, Scott Snyder offers six rules to guide established companies to become disruptors in the health care industry.

10/23/2021

Wharton’s Lawton R. Burns examines the prickly relationship between technology and health care.

08/26/2021

Familiar hedging options like commodities are no longer safe havens against core inflation, new research finds.

07/15/2021

A new study co-authored by Wharton’s David Asch finds Black patients are dying at higher rates from COVID-19 because of where they are hospitalized.

07/15/2021

Structural racism, the pandemic, and other economic barriers are stopping many Black and Hispanic homeowners from taking advantage of low interest rates.

07/15/2021

changes in influence!

Small investors are reacting to both positive and negative earnings surprises by lifting stock prices, a Wharton study of Robinhood trades reveals.

06/23/2021

High healthcare costs not necessary

In their new book ‘Big Med,’ David Dranove and Wharton’s Lawton R. Burns look at the rise of megaproviders and their role in runaway health care costs.

06/09/2021

Wharton’s Katy Milkman talks to behavioral scientist Maya Shankar about her career, which has taken her from the White House to her current role as senior director of behavioral economics at Google, and about what it takes to change people's minds.