If by announcing a search for a second headquarters Amazon intended to play one city against another and generate millions of dollars in free publicity, it has worked. Many observers believe Amazon ...

According to this opinion piece by Scott Cowen, president emeritus and distinguished university chair of Tulane University, a full active work life will, of course, produce some failures. What counts ...

In June 2010, in the days leading up to Mexico’s state elections, Rodolfo Torre, a leading gubernatorial candidate from the northern state of Tamaulipas, was assassinated. He had campaigned against ...

What if everyone could get a guaranteed income whether or not they worked? Experts say the concept is gaining ground globally. That’s the idea behind the universal basic income (UBI) — and it is ...

In 1950, when the global economy was struggling to recover from World War II, oil-rich Venezuela was the world’s fourth-wealthiest country, boasting a per capita GDP of $7,424 exceeded only by the ...

The following article was written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther, a visiting scholar at Wharton and director of global alliance POZE. A humanitarian practitioner who spent over 20 years at the United ...

The following article was written by Fabian Gaessler, an assistant professor in the department of economics and business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Henning Piezunka, an associate professor of ...

In a significant move this summer, Kenya’s leading telecoms operator, Safaricom, extended its innovative mobile money service M-Pesa to Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country, seen as the ...

Despite being bought out by Unilever in 2000, Ben & Jerry's has managed to keep intact the commitment to social justice that was baked into the firm by its founders. When people hear the name “Ben and ...

In an excerpt from his new book, 'Co-Existence,' Wharton’s Ethan Mollick explores AI’s rapid advances and their inevitable impact on how we work and live. Following is an excerpt from Co-Existence: ...

Wharton’s Benjamin Lockwood explains why state-run lotteries are so compelling to consumers, even when they know the odds are stacked against winning. Americans spend more than $100 billion a year on ...

Each time the U.S. government comes perilously close to a shutdown because of disagreement within Congress on raising the federal debt ceiling, a familiar question arises: Could we not fix the debt ...