May 3, 2026
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Monthly Newsletter
Stay In the Know with our top stories of the month.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
More money can buy a bigger house or a better car, but it can’t buy a nicer boss, says Wharton’s Matt Killingsworth.
REAL ESTATE
Mortgage modifications during the Great Recession helped distressed borrowers keep their homes and accumulate more capital gains wealth, a new Wharton study finds.
AI
Wharton’s Rahul Kapoor explains why leaders need to think beyond the technology and focus on the strategic challenges of emergence, enablement, and embedding.
MARKETING
A simple “confirm or switch” prompt can push customers to buy more — but it can also drive some away, new Wharton research shows.
AI
A new report from Wharton Human-AI Research and Science Says explores how to overcome trust barriers and speed the adoption of AI agents, using insights from behavioral science and real-world deployments.
The Gaps in Financial Literacy and Why They Matter
THIS WEEK
Professor Olivia S. Mitchell discusses the current state of financial literacy.
Faculty in the News
On Allbirds’ pivot from shoes to AI: “We may have reached the updated version: when the shoe company starts pitching itself as an AI play, the bubble is telling you something.”
— Gad Allon, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
Knowledge at Wharton is the free online journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
