About Us
The Wharton Public Policy Initiative (Wharton PPI) is a hub for public policy research and education with one overarching goal across its Philadelphia and Washington, DC offices: to leverage the University’s resources to foster better-informed policymaking on issues related to business and the economy.
To remedy our country’s many economic problems, our government needs access to clear, fact-driven, accessible knowledge to stimulate policies that benefit the American public by promoting growth and stability. We aim to be the honest broker of data and rigorous, independent analyses that bridge this intellectual divide between business and government, while preparing our students to become the next generation of thought leaders in public policy and government service.
Recent Research
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December 2019
The introduction of autonomous vehicles onto American roadways presents not only great technological challenges, but ethical ones too. This brief considers the principles that should govern how companies that produce autonomous vehicles should program them to behave in hybrid conditions, when autonomous vehicles and vehicles controlled by human drivers share the road and potentially come into conflict. Research shows that consumers would prefer to purchase autonomous vehicles that are programmed to prioritize the safety of their occupants. But doing so means that in hybrid conditions, occupants of human-driven vehicles would systematically suffer more harms. This disparity should be of great concern, as it is likely that there will be a correlation between autonomous vehicle usage and wealth, since the large R&D costs that go into the making of autonomous vehicles will probably make them a luxury item, at least early on. The Issue Brief therefore proposes a Fair Risk Distribution principle to govern the programming of autonomous vehicles, and lays out the moral obligations of all manufacturers to not be the first to offer vehicles programmed to systematically prioritize the interests of their occupants.
Student Profile
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/864-arnav-jagasia"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/531,0,2662,2133/2568_ArnavJagasia.rev.1515263088.JPG" alt="Arnav Jagasia" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/531,0,2662,2133/2568_ArnavJagasia.rev.1515263088.JPG 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/531,0,2662,2133/2568_ArnavJagasia.rev.1515263088.JPG 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="2133"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/864-arnav-jagasia">Arnav Jagasia</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’20, EAS’20</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> PPI Student Group was a great way to explore a variety of topics in technology policy, to meet people with similar interests, and to expand my understanding of the role of technology in policy.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/675-alfred-joseph"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/1017,0,3148,2133/2384_AlfredJeffries9.rev.1504196361.jpg" alt="Red Joseph" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/1017,0,3148,2133/2384_AlfredJeffries9.rev.1504196361.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/1017,0,3148,2133/2384_AlfredJeffries9.rev.1504196361.jpg 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="2133"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/675-alfred-joseph">Alfred Joseph</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">C’18</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “I found that those two disciplines (criminology and anthropology) sparked profound evolutions in my thinking, and I wanted a home for more discoveries.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/503-ricardo-pena"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1385,1121/1570_ricopenadoe_sign.rev.1467209407.jpg" alt="Ricardo Pena" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1385,1121/1570_ricopenadoe_sign.rev.1467209407.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1385,1121/1570_ricopenadoe_sign.rev.1467209407.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1385" data-max-h="1121"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/503-ricardo-pena">Ricardo Pena</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">MPA, ’17</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> Ricardo carried these sentiments home, in a phrase often uttered in Swaziland: If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/813-tom-koch"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/379,62,2044,1728/2983_Koch_Thomas_square.rev.1543593717.jpg" alt="Thomas Koch" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/379,62,2044,1728/2983_Koch_Thomas_square.rev.1543593717.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/379,62,2044,1728/2983_Koch_Thomas_square.rev.1543593717.jpg 3x" data-max-w="2400" data-max-h="2400"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/813-tom-koch">Tom Koch</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">MBA’19</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><blockquote><p> Invoking words from the famous Prussian general and military strategist, Carl von Clausewitz. Clausewitz “theorized that ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means,’ and his words remind us of the essential nature of war and its origins, which are political in nature,” Tom observes. “As such, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan must have political solutions, not just military ones.” </p></blockquote></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/764-tanner-bowen"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/188,798,1413,2023/1803_img_2974.rev.1477942310.jpg" alt="Tanner Bowen" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/188,798,1413,2023/1803_img_2974.rev.1477942310.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/188,798,1413,2023/1803_img_2974.rev.1477942310.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1536" data-max-h="2048"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/764-tanner-bowen">Tanner Bowen</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’18</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “My concentrations at Wharton are in Business Economics & Public Policy and Legal Studies & Business Ethics. I thought these opportunities were great in themselves, but once I found out about the PPRS program, I knew that this would be an excellent learning opportunity to take my public policy interests to the next level.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/655-john-miller"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,79,480,559/2228_JohnMiller.rev.1501513900.jpg" alt="John Miller" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,79,480,559/2228_JohnMiller.rev.1501513900.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,79,480,559/2228_JohnMiller.rev.1501513900.jpg 3x" data-max-w="480" data-max-h="640"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/655-john-miller">John Miller</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">MES’17</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “I returned to school to expand my role as a broad influencer” on flood prevention and mitigation practices. “Policymaking was, prior to returning to school, something that I taught myself,” through volunteer work and board memberships. But pursuing the degree at Penn has “formalized that foundation.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/593-jon-hartley"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/127,21,667,562/1937_jonhartleystudentprofile.rev.1485887123.jpg" alt="Jon Hartley" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/127,21,667,562/1937_jonhartleystudentprofile.rev.1485887123.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/127,21,667,562/1937_jonhartleystudentprofile.rev.1485887123.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1200" data-max-h="800"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/593-jon-hartley">Jon Hartley</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’17</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “At some stage in my life, I really would like to work in some sort of economic policy capacity in D.C.. The question is just what kind of role and context that would be.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/757-shawn-srolovitz"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,3200,3200/2637_shawnsrolovitzSquare.rev.1522336080.jpg" alt="Shawn Srolovitz" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,3200,3200/2637_shawnsrolovitzSquare.rev.1522336080.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,3200,3200/2637_shawnsrolovitzSquare.rev.1522336080.jpg 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="3200"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/757-shawn-srolovitz">Shawn Srolovitz</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">EAS’18</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “PPRS has been a great complement to my engineering studies. Because of the courses I have taken in both health and technology policy, I have been able to learn how to apply the principles and problem solving skills taught in engineering school more broadly.” </p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/848-nile-nwogu"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/211,0,1584,1371/3072_NileNwogu.rev.1553873869.jpg" alt="Nile Nwogu" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/211,0,1584,1371/3072_NileNwogu.rev.1553873869.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/211,0,1584,1371/3072_NileNwogu.rev.1553873869.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1796" data-max-h="1371"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/848-nile-nwogu">Nile Nwogu</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’19</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><blockquote><p> When I learned about PPRS, I thought it very nicely provided a mix of all of the backgrounds required for a good public policy thinker – economics, political science, statistics, and specific public policy courses. The program seemed to provide a very interdisciplinary approach to public policy learning and interdisciplinary programs are exactly what attracted me to Penn in the first place. </p></blockquote></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/543-radhika-gupta"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/499,22,1411,935/1770_radhikagupta2.rev.1477329261.jpg" alt="Radhika Gupta" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/499,22,1411,935/1770_radhikagupta2.rev.1477329261.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/499,22,1411,935/1770_radhikagupta2.rev.1477329261.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1600" data-max-h="1067"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/543-radhika-gupta">Radhika Gupta</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’19, C’19</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “Business men and women are needed,” Radhika states, “who can not only understand the science behind emerging technologies, but can also convey the significance and purpose of these innovations to the general public.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/550-will-fields"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/249,32,1716,1499/1892_willfields_4483.rev.1480514183.jpg" alt="Will Fields" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/249,32,1716,1499/1892_willfields_4483.rev.1480514183.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/249,32,1716,1499/1892_willfields_4483.rev.1480514183.jpg 3x" data-max-w="2048" data-max-h="1508"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/550-will-fields">Will Fields</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">MBA</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> I think that I would like to work within the policy department of a large corporate entity, or work within philanthropy. But much like my desires to pursue investment banking opportunities in 2008, I know that these goals may change!</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/648-aidan-thornton"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/268,0,2400,2133/2169_AidanThornton6.rev.1498754960.jpg" alt="Wharton graduate Aidan Thornton" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/268,0,2400,2133/2169_AidanThornton6.rev.1498754960.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/268,0,2400,2133/2169_AidanThornton6.rev.1498754960.jpg 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="2133"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/648-aidan-thornton">Aidan Thornton</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’17</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “During interviews with potential employers, it quickly became clear that my understanding of certain issues in the real estate finance realm were far deeper and comprehensive than the general understanding that would have been imparted from a lecture or a textbook. Additionally, I think that pursuing research has provided an opportunity to be continually engaged with the newest developments in my field – an incredibly useful advantage in the private sector.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/821-jennifer-reich"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,281,2286,2566/3039_Reich_Jennifer_4.rev.1548960441.jpg" alt="Jennifer Reich, JD/MBA '19" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,281,2286,2566/3039_Reich_Jennifer_4.rev.1548960441.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,281,2286,2566/3039_Reich_Jennifer_4.rev.1548960441.jpg 3x" data-max-w="2286" data-max-h="3200"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/821-jennifer-reich">Jennifer Reich</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">JD/MBA ’19</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><blockquote><p> In terms of skills, the MBA provides an understanding of economics and finance, as well as a business vocabulary useful to connecting with private sector leaders and better grasping their priorities. As a platform, I thought the MBA would provide a salient external signal that I had management potential and that I appreciated the practical realities of policy implementation for future work in government. </p></blockquote></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/793-john-casey"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,600,600/2784_JohnCasey_5427.rev.1535729019.jpg" alt="John Casey" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,600,600/2784_JohnCasey_5427.rev.1535729019.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,600,600/2784_JohnCasey_5427.rev.1535729019.jpg 3x" data-max-w="600" data-max-h="600"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/793-john-casey">John Casey</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">W’21</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> “In today’s media and political environment, where short sound bites have taken the place of complicated, nuanced policy answers, I think there is a great need for individuals who know how to create effective policy.”</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/34-benjamin-droz"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/57,0,1156,1099/466_ben5_copy.rev.1407270542.jpg" alt="Benjamin Droz" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/57,0,1156,1099/466_ben5_copy.rev.1407270542.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/57,0,1156,1099/466_ben5_copy.rev.1407270542.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1650" data-max-h="1100"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/34-benjamin-droz">Benjamin Droz</a><div class="lw_profiles_13">C’15</div><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_14"><p> I came to Penn originally wanting to be a surgeon. I found out early on in my college career, though, that I am much less excited by the details of hard science or advanced math than I am by thinking of ways to optimize national incentive schemes or improve the way our nation operates in terms of efficiency and morality.</p></div></div>
Featured Faculty Experts
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/119-katherine-l-milkman"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/163,21,496,354/187_milkman__katherine-300dpi.rev.1403028945.jpg" alt="Evan C Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching, Professor of Operations, Informati..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/163,21,496,354/187_milkman__katherine-300dpi.rev.1403028945.jpg 2x" data-max-w="700" data-max-h="469"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/119-katherine-l-milkman">Katherine L. Milkman</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Katherine Milkman is an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research relies heavily on “big data” to document various ways in which individuals systematically deviate from making optimal choices. Her work has paid particular attention to the question of what factors produce self-control failures (e.g., under-saving for retirement, exercising too little, eating too much junk food) and how to reduce the incidence of such failures. To watch Katherine give a 5-minute presentation about her research on motivating exercise, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHnUc9Yudk">click here</a>. She has also explored race and gender discrimination, focusing on how a decision’s context can alter the manifestation of bias. And, she has examined what types of stories are published in The New Yorker as well as what New York Timesstories and science stories are most widely shared (to see a presentation about what types of science stories spread, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8PYRz0Ycbs">click here</a>).</p><p> Katherine has published nearly two dozen articles in leading social science journals such as Management Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Psychological Science. She is also an Associate Editor for the Behavioral Economics Department at Management Science and a member of the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Editorial Board.</p><p> Katherine has worked with numerous companies on research and/or consulting including Evive Health, Quickflix, Google, the American Red Cross, Cummins Engines, Wipro, HelloWallet, and StickK. In addition, her work has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, BusinessWeek, The Economist, NPR, and Harvard Business Review.</p><p> In 2011, Katherine was recognized as one of the <a href="http://poetsandquants.com/2011/02/09/best-prof-katy-milkman/">top 40 business school professors under 40</a> by Poets and Quants, and in 2013 she was voted Wharton’s “<a href="http://www.metromba.com/2013/05/wharton-professor-katherine-milkman-wins-third-annual-iron-prof-competition/">Iron Prof</a>” by the school’s MBA students.</p><p> Katherine received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude) in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s joint program in Computer Science and Business.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/105-kevin-werbach"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/48,0,528,481/314_instructor-1.rev.1405371763.jpg" alt="Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/48,0,528,481/314_instructor-1.rev.1405371763.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/48,0,528,481/314_instructor-1.rev.1405371763.jpg 3x" data-max-w="576" data-max-h="480"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/105-kevin-werbach">Kevin Werbach</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on the business, policy, and social implications of emerging Internet and communications technologies. Werbach is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also the founder of the Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm. He advises companies, writes about emerging trends in communications and information technology, and organizes Supernova, a major annual executive technology conference. He co-led the review of the Federal Communications Commission for the Obama-Biden Transition Project.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/717-ioana-e-marinescu"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,200,200/2566_Ioana-Marinescu.rev.1514917312.jpg" alt="Assistant Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bure..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" data-max-w="200" data-max-h="230"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/717-ioana-e-marinescu">Ioana E. Marinescu</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Ioana Marinescu studies the labor market to craft policies to enhance employment, productivity, and economic security. Her research expertise includes online job search, workforce development, unemployment insurance, the universal basic income, and employment contracts and has been published in leading academic journals like Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Public Economics. She is the leading economist at <a href="http://dataatwork.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Data@Work Research Hub</a>, a workforce data gathering and sharing project funded by the Sloan Foundation. Dr. Marinescu writes a monthly op-ed for the <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/auteur/13768-ioana-marinescu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">French Newspaper Liberation</a>, and a monthly blog post on hiring and management tips backed by research at <a href="http://resources.careerbuilder.com/authors/ioana-marinescu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CareeBuilder.com</a>. Additionally, Dr. Marinescu is a faculty research fellow at the <a href="http://www.nber.org/people/ioana_marinescu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Bureau of Economic Research</a>.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/108-peter-cappelli"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/870,64,2816,2011/2776_EMBA_East_20122715_448.rev.1535484162.jpg" alt="George W. Taylor Professor; Professor of Management; Director, Center for Human Resources; The Wh..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/870,64,2816,2011/2776_EMBA_East_20122715_448.rev.1535484162.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/870,64,2816,2011/2776_EMBA_East_20122715_448.rev.1535484162.jpg 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="2133"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/108-peter-cappelli">Peter Cappelli</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Peter Cappelli<strong> </strong>is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, and since 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. He has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, and a faculty member at MIT, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley. He was a staff member on the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency from 1988-’90, Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Post-Secondary Improvement at Stanford University. Professor Cappelli has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences and three panels of the National Goals for Education. He was recently named by HR Magazine as one of the top 5 most influential thinkers in management and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He received the 2009 PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to human resources. He serves on Global Agenda Council on Employment for the World Economic Forum and a number of advisory boards. </p><p> Professor Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. These publications include <em>The New Deal</em> <em>at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce</em>, which examines the decline in lifetime employment relationships,<em>Talent Management: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty</em>, which outlines the strategies that employers should consider in developing and managing talent (named a “best business book” for 2008 by Booz-Allen), and <em>The India Way: How India’s Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management (with colleagues), </em>which describes a mission-driven and employee-focused approach to strategy and competitiveness. His 2010 book <em>Managing the Older Worker</em> (with Bill Novelli) dispels myths about older workers and describes how employers can best engage them. <em>Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs</em> (2012) identifies shortfalls with current hiring practices and training practices and has been excerpted in <em>Time Magazine</em> (online) and reviewed in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>The New Yorker</em>, and most major business publications. Related work on managing retention, electronic recruiting, and changing career paths appears in the<em>Harvard Business Review.</em></p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/10-joao-f-gomes"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,426,392/75_gomez-j.rev.1402517597.jpg" alt="Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance, The Wharton School" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,0,426,392/75_gomez-j.rev.1402517597.jpg 2x" data-max-w="426" data-max-h="392"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/10-joao-f-gomes">João F. Gomes</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Professor Gomes expertise is in the areas of macroeconomics and financial markets. His recent research covers the determinants of the corporate investment and financing decisions of firms and the links to movements in financial markets, and to monetary and fiscal policies. He has also examined the role of financial leverage in determining the cost of capital, the causes of performance variation across asset classes, and the quantitative importance of financial market imperfections on corporate decisions and economic cycles.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/288-peter-conti-brown"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,3,1279,1282/1156_peter_conti_brown.rev.1443117207.jpg" alt="Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,3,1279,1282/1156_peter_conti_brown.rev.1443117207.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,3,1279,1282/1156_peter_conti_brown.rev.1443117207.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1279" data-max-h="1650"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/288-peter-conti-brown">Peter Conti-Brown</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Peter Conti-Brown studies central banking, financial regulation, and public finance, with a particular focus on the law, history, politics, and economics of central banking at the Federal Reserve. He is author of the book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Independence-Federal-Reserve/dp/0691164002" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve</a></em>, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. His articles have appeared in the <em>Yale Journal on Regulation</em> and the <em>Stanford</em>, <em>UCLA</em>, and <em>Washington University Law Reviews</em>, among other journals. He is also the editor, with David Skeel, of the book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/When-States-Go-Broke-Solutions/dp/1107642892" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">When States Go Broke: Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis</a></em>, published by Cambridge University Press, and editor, with Rosa Lastra, of the Research Handbook on Central Banking, under contract with Edward Elgar Publishing. He has been quoted in print and online articles published by The Atlantic, The Economist, The New York Times, and Reuters, and has appeared on C-SPAN and National Public Radio. He has testified before the US Senate Banking Committee on reforming the Federal Reserve.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/116-howard-kunreuther"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/313,0,1609,1296/184_kunreuther_howard-300dpi.rev.1406147165.jpg" alt="James G. Dinan Professor; Co-Director, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Professor o..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/313,0,1609,1296/184_kunreuther_howard-300dpi.rev.1406147165.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/313,0,1609,1296/184_kunreuther_howard-300dpi.rev.1406147165.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1649" data-max-h="1296"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/116-howard-kunreuther">Howard Kunreuther</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Howard C. Kunreuther is the James G. Dinan Professor; Professor of Decision Sciences and Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School, and co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. He has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage low-probability, high-consequence events related to technological and natural hazards. Professor Kunreuther is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, receiving the Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001. He recently served on the National Academy of Science / National Research Council’s panel on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters. He also served on the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) as part of the Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency (SIRR) and the report released by the New York City Mayor’s Office in June 2013. He is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 5th Assessment Report, Working Group 3, Chapter 2, “Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies.” Dr. Kunreuther served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Insurance and Asset Management for 2011-2012, and in 2009-2010 was co-chair of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Leadership and Innovation for Reducing Risks from Natural Disasters. His recent books include At War with the Weather (with Erwann Michel-Kerjan) (MIT Press, 2009, paperback, 2011), winner of the Kulp-Wright Book Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association in 2011; Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response (with Michael Useem) (Financial Times Press, 2010); and Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry” (with Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow) (Cambridge University Press, 2013).</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/98-mark-v-pauly"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/313,0,1609,1296/193_pauly_mark-300dpi.rev.1406153781.jpg" alt="Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, Business Economics, and Public Policy, P..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/313,0,1609,1296/193_pauly_mark-300dpi.rev.1406153781.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/313,0,1609,1296/193_pauly_mark-300dpi.rev.1406153781.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1649" data-max-h="1296"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/98-mark-v-pauly">Mark V. Pauly</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Professor Mark V. Pauly is the Bendheim Professor and is a Professor of Healthcare Management, Business Economics, and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Xavier University and his masters degree from the University of Delaware. Additionally, he also received his doctorate from the University of Virginia. Professor Pauly’s research focuses on healthcare in relation to policy, economics, insurance, and regulation. </p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/80-arthur-van-benthem"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,3,1100,1103/207_vanbenthem_arthur_300dpi.rev.1406148085.jpg" alt="Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Professor Arthur van Benthem" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,3,1100,1103/207_vanbenthem_arthur_300dpi.rev.1406148085.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,3,1100,1103/207_vanbenthem_arthur_300dpi.rev.1406148085.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1100" data-max-h="1650"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/80-arthur-van-benthem">Arthur van Benthem</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Arthur van Benthem is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton. His research specializes in environmental and energy economics. His recent work focuses on unintended consequences of environmental legislation and the economic efficiency of energy policies.</p><p> He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2012, a masters degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Amsterdam.</p><p> Before pursuing his doctoral studies at Stanford, he worked in various roles at Royal Dutch Shell, most recently in corporate strategy as an energy economist in the Long-Term Energy Scenarios Team. During his undergraduate studies, Arthur enjoyed working as an evening stock trader at IMC Trading in Amsterdam.</p><p> For more information, please visit his <a href="http://www.arthurvanbenthem.com/" target="blank">personal website</a>.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/51-tom-baker"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/475,106,1720,1349/2469_PennFaculty0716_0097.rev.1508935117.jpg" alt="William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Penn Law School" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/475,106,1720,1349/2469_PennFaculty0716_0097.rev.1508935117.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/475,106,1720,1349/2469_PennFaculty0716_0097.rev.1508935117.jpg 3x" data-max-w="2048" data-max-h="1362"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/51-tom-baker">Tom Baker</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Tom Baker, a preeminent scholar in insurance law, explores insurance, risk, and responsibility using methods and perspectives drawn from economics, sociology, psychology, and history. He is coauthor with Sean Griffith of Ensuring Corporate Misconduct (Chicago 2010), which examines relationships among liability insurance, corporate governance, and securities litigation. His latest article, “Do You Want Insurance with that? Protecting Consumers from Add-On Insurance Products,” employs behavioral economic analysis to support a more assertive approach to regulating such insurance products as collision damage waivers, extended warranties, and credit life insurance. His current research examines legal malpractice law in action and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.<br/><br/> He is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Liability Insurance Project, a member of the Sloan/Sage Working Group on Behavioral Economics and Retail Financial Services, and the co-director of the Health Insurance Exchange Research Group of Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In August 2013 he received the Robert B. McKay award, a lifetime scholarly achievement award given by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/84-robert-p-inman"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/26,0,1323,1296/179_inman_robert-300dpi.rev.1406146825.jpg" alt="Penn Wharton PPI Faculty Affiliate, Professor Robert P. Inman" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/26,0,1323,1296/179_inman_robert-300dpi.rev.1406146825.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/26,0,1323,1296/179_inman_robert-300dpi.rev.1406146825.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1649" data-max-h="1296"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/84-robert-p-inman">Robert P. Inman</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Robert P. Inman is the Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received is undergraduate and graduate training in economics at Harvard University. In addition to his appointment as a Professor at the Wharton School, he currently serves as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. He is an Associate Editor of the professional journal <em>Regional Science and Urban Economics. </em>He is the editor of three books, <em>The Economics of Public Services </em>(Macmillan Publishing), <em>Managing the Service Economy </em>(Cambridge University Press), and <em>Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America </em>(Princeton University Press). His research focuses on the design and impact of fiscal policies with an emphasis on fiscal federalism.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/96-scott-e-harrington"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/9,0,1305,1296/176_harrington_scott-300dpi.rev.1406146774.jpg" alt=" Penn Wharton PPI Faculty Affiliate, Professor Scott E. Harrington " class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/9,0,1305,1296/176_harrington_scott-300dpi.rev.1406146774.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/9,0,1305,1296/176_harrington_scott-300dpi.rev.1406146774.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1649" data-max-h="1296"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/96-scott-e-harrington">Scott E. Harrington</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Scott E. Harrington, Ph.D. is the Alan B. Miller Professor in the Health Care Management and Insurance and Risk Management departments at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct scholar for health policy at the American Enterprise Institute. A former President of both the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Risk Theory Society, he is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance and has published widely on the economics and regulation of insurance. A frequent speaker on insurance markets, regulation, and public policy, he has conducted research, consulted, or served as an expert for many organizations. He has testified before the U.S. House and Senate and before numerous U.S. state legislative and administrative committees. He currently teaches classes on health care financial management, health policy, and healthcare econometrics.</p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/22-jennifer-blouin"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,108,1179,1287/163_blouin_jennifer-300dpi.rev.1406143581.jpg" alt="Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School" class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,108,1179,1287/163_blouin_jennifer-300dpi.rev.1406143581.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,108,1179,1287/163_blouin_jennifer-300dpi.rev.1406143581.jpg 3x" data-max-w="1179" data-max-h="1651"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/22-jennifer-blouin">Jennifer Blouin</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Professor Jennifer Blouin’s research centers on the role of taxation in firm decision making. </p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/7-cary-coglianese"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,1,256,257/70_ccoglian.rev.1402345409.jpg" alt="Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, Penn Law School; Professor of Political Science, School of Arts..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" data-max-w="256" data-max-h="257"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/7-cary-coglianese">Cary Coglianese</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he currently serves as the director of the Penn Program on Regulation and has served as the law school’s Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs. He specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes, with an emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory strategies and the role of public participation, negotiation, and business-government relations in policy making. </p><p> A co-chair of the American Bar Association’s administrative law section committee on e-government and past co-chair of its committee on rulemaking, he has led a National Science Foundation initiative on e-rulemaking, served on the ABA’s task force on improving<em>Regulations.Gov</em>, and chaired a task force on transparency and public participation in the regulatory process that offered a blueprint to the Obama Administration on open government. He has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, Environment Canada, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. </p></div></div>
- <div class="item-wrapper"><span class="lw_item_thumb"><a href="/live/profiles/53-michael-knoll"><img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/160/height/160/crop/1/src_region/0,1,256,257/501_mknoll.rev.1408126363.jpg" alt="Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law & Professor of Real Estate; Co-Director, Center for Tax L..." class="lw_image" width="160" height="160" data-max-w="256" data-max-h="257"/></a></span><a href="/live/profiles/53-michael-knoll">Michael Knoll</a><div class="lw_profiles_19"/><div class="lw_profiles_32"/><div class="lw_profiles_description"><p> Michael Knoll is the Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Co-Director of the Center for Tax Law and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as Deputy Dean of Penn Law from 2014 to 2016. Professor Knoll is an insightful commentator on how income tax laws affect business and investment decisions and a creative proponent of how those laws could be redesigned. Much of his recent research involves the application of finance principles to questions of international tax policy, especially the connection between taxation and competitiveness. Professor Knoll’s recent research includes writings on sovereign wealth funds, private equity, international tax arbitrage, the impact of the corporate income tax on the competitiveness of U.S. industries, and tax discrimination within the European Union and between the U.S. states.</p></div></div>
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