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I loved Comparative Politics in high school and wanted to go into business to some degree, but just didn’t know how, I think that Huntsman has given me the opportunity to explore and figure out where I want to go – I realized that it was truly the best combination.…Read More

Samidha Sane February 29, 2020 Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca Morocco. Getty Images. CASABLANCA—Ibtissam remembers the laughter, the music, the henna-stained hands of the women lined up to welcome a newlywed couple in her neighbor’s home in Safi, a city in Western Morocco: “It felt like a party.” The negafa, a…Read More

By Kelly Shen and Joshua Yang Edition by Shaila Lothe and Amjad Hamza Border Crossing Welcoming Venezuelan Immigrants into Colombia. Source: Wikimedia Commons. In the past two decades, under both President Hugo Chávez and President Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party, Venezuela has experienced mounting political and economic trouble…Read More

By Mariana Velasco That is what is really cool about Huntsman – everyone is involved in different things. I think that we all pursue so many different things because we are very international and love to travel, so we have that ability to stray and try new things, but always…Read More

Transformations in the Israeli Economy By Ben Winer History of Comparative Capitalist Systems Introduction The rise of the Jewish nation state from the ashes of the Holocaust is an impressive historical feat that has captured the attention of the world. Within this stunning story lies a subplot no less transformative…Read More

By Mariana Velasco For me, the most interesting is how the cultures of different countries affect how business is done, which changes how much people work, how hard they work, and why they work – everything is different and that is so cool. The Basics: Matteo is a sophomore potentially…Read More

"Being in Huntsman has really pushed me to see how the world works from a much more macro level perspective. The world is not only about business nor is it only about government, so I am glad that I got to explore both." Interview By: Mariana Velasco The Basics: Aiden…Read More

Joshita Varshney October 2, 2019 The artificial intelligence race has kept the world watching in rapt attention. Will the People’s Republic of China beat the United States of America? If so, what are the implications? Kai-fu Lee, a former executive at Apple, SGI, Microsoft, and Google, argues in his novel…Read More

By Mariana Velasco In my free time I just like to watch hours and hours of videos on documentaries, random facts on how things work, learning about airplanes, or Middle Eastern politics. The Basics: Ryan is a junior concentrating in Finance and targeting Arabic with an extremely wide range of…Read More

There are some intricacies that you can only really see if you completely immerse yourself in local cultures – however that may be. The Huntsman Program is really good at encouraging that full immersion; not a lot of programs require you to study abroad for a semester to graduate or…Read More

Matteo Brunel University of Pennsylvania ‘22 LITERATURE REVIEW “Belief in personal control is highly adaptive, for its presence or absence can have a significant impact on the regulation of cognition, emotion, and even physical health” — L. A. Leotti (2012) on “The Inherent Reward of Choice” According to Financial Times…Read More

The Battle for Artificial Intelligence Supremacy: Corporations or Countries? Joshita, a Junior in the Huntsman Program targeting Mandarin, is an intern at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Joshita is passionate about Chinese-American relations and how China’s political and social structure has allowed it to become a global power. She is…Read More

Huntsman Faculty Director, Harbir Singh, Co-Hosts Reoccurring Radio Show on SiriusXM "Mastering Innovation"   The Huntsman Program’s Wharton Faculty Director, Harbir Singh, is also a Director of Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation. Singh, along with colleagues Nicolaj Siggelkow and Saikat Chaudhuri co-host a radio series on SiriusXM 132, "Mastering Innovation".…Read More

Huntsman Faculty Director Receives Award for Outstanding Labor Research Rudra Sil wins Dorothy Day Award for Outstanding Labor Research   The Huntsman Program’s SAS Faculty Director, Rudra Sil, has just received the Dorothy Day Award for Outstanding Labor Research, together with his former Ph.D. student, Dr. Allison Evans. The award is…Read More

Huntsman Alumna Featured as a Hedge Fund Rising Star Jennifer Lai ('08) Featured in Institutional Investor This year the bar to become an Institutional Investor Hedge Fund Rising Star was higher than ever. Dalton Investments’ Jennifer Lai has had the entrepreneurial bug since she was in kindergarten, when she sold…Read More

Huntsman Senior Receives Fulbright Award Mark Rinder ('19) receives Fulbright-García Robles Binational Internship Unique among Fulbright programs worldwide, the Binational Internship program was created in 1996 to promote mutual understanding between the business communities in Mexico and U.S. A Portuguese target in the Huntsman Program, Mark is majoring in International…Read More

World Economic Forum 2019 Julia Luscombe ('10) serves as Co-Chair "I believe in the positive transformative power of Globalization 4.0, if millennials can shape it on our terms of equity, equality and sustainability. According to a 2017 survey of the Global Shapers Community, 51% of people under 30 believe ‘equal…Read More