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Tools for the Tank: Tips from World Record Holders in Fuel Efficiency
Like many college students, Kirsten Anderson, a nursing major at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., sees her car as a precious commodity. Her ride, a 2003 Ford Focus that she paid for...
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Do U Know the Economics of Your Cell Phone?
When Gwen Truman turned 16 last year, her parents fulfilled a wish for the North Carolina teen: She got her own cell phone. From the start, Truman knew the ins and outs of her family’s cell phone plan...
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You’re Fired! Now What?
It happened to Groupon CEO Andrew Mason. It happened to Scott Thompson, once the CEO of Yahoo!, and Scott Forstall, the guru behind Apple’s operating system for iPhones and iPads. And someday, getting...
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GDP: The Rock Star of Economic Indicators
This week, the U.S. Commerce Department released the nation’s first-quarter GDP (Gross Domestic Product) report. Analysts expected that the U.S. economy would expand by more than 3%, driven primarily...
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Speed Cubing and Scholarships: Teens Exchange Business Equity for Tuition
Evan Jennings will build his puzzle business as a freshman at Clarkson. May is typically the month high school students must make that all-important decision: Now that I’ve been accepted, which college...
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Live Long and Prosper: Planning for a Social Security Shortfall
Travis Spillum, a recent graduate of Little Falls Community High in Minnesota, was a member of the winning team in the David Ricardo Division of the National Economics Challenge. You can ask Spillum...
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Your Money and the 40-hour Workweek
The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien once said, “It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish.” High school students everywhere are reforming their procrastinating ways in the next...
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Intel for Aspiring Investment Bankers
Emily Zhen, 17, is a rising senior at Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Ill. Zhen spent part of her summer participating in Wharton’s Leadership in the Business World (LBW) program. In...
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Behind the Blue Chips of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
On Thursday morning, the papers and news stations reported that stocks were off to a weak start on Wall Street as a September rally began losing steam. The Dow Jones industrial Average (DJIA) fell...
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American Express Embraces Privilege and Purpose
Wendy Huang, 17, is a senior at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Huang traveled to Manhattan this summer as a student in Wharton’s Leadership in the Business World to visit the...
View ArticlePeggy Bishop Lane on Why Accounting Is the Language of Business
Peggy Bishop Lane is the vice dean of the Wharton MBA program for executives and a Wharton adjunct professor of accounting. She sat down with KWHS summer intern Marisa DePuyt, a junior at Wissahickon...
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Four Financial Lessons from the Government Shutdown
The news out of Washington, D.C., today is the most optimistic in more than two weeks since the partial shutdown of the U.S. government that began on October 1. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said...
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Introducing the Latest Stock Market Debutante: #TWTR
Every day, Twitter’s more than 230 million active users send out about 500 million 140-character microblogs about everything from daily specials at local restaurants to minute-by-minute accounts of...
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Talking Money: Students Reflect on a Year of Spending, Valuing and Socking It...
Each Christmas, John DePass anticipates the arrival of that holiday card from his grandparents. A few years back, they gave up on trying to figure out what to buy DePass, a 17-year-old senior at...
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Recess in the Computer Lab, a Lucky Apple and the Evolution of an Investment...
As the KWHS/Aberdeen Investment Competition reaches the midway mark, some 120 student teams from 35 high schools in 14 states and South Korea are starting to build on and refine their investment...
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A New Kind of Money: Bitcoin Basics Amidst A Week of Mt. Gox Mayhem
Dylan Redfield, a sophomore at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in New Jersey, is crazy about technology. But in Redfield’s case, it’s more than just equipping himself with the latest cool gadgets...
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Digital-age Danger: Learning to Protect Your Identity
Freshman year of college was barely underway when the unthinkable happened to Andrew Royce Bauer: his personal information fell into the wrong hands. “Someone took my [wallet]. I never found out who...
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Dual Enrollment, Scholarships and Creative Ways to Cut Your College Tuition Bill
Abby Parnell will start her freshman year at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa., this fall with about a year’s worth of college credits under her belt. That’s because Parnell, a homeschool student...
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Understanding the Mobile Wallet Market
The versatile smartphone has become indispensable to the average consumer. It is a music player, alarm clock, game console, GPS navigation device and even a TV screen, in addition to being a cell...
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Six Money Moves for Your Future
As you progress from high school to college to your chosen career, you need to be mindful of your financial health. You should start to plan in high school how you will protect and build your personal...
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