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Maybe you caught Taylor Swift’s live stream on Yahoo a few weeks back. Yes, that was the 24-year-old music sensation releasing her new album, debuting her new Shake It Off video simultaneously on Vevo and answering Instagram, Twitter and Facebook questions from fans. More importantly, Swift was showing off her mastery of online media as a means of self and music promotion. Social media has changed the music business, which as KWHS explores, is especially powerful for lesser-known artists and performers.…

Digital Rockers: Emerging Musicians Use Online Media to Turn Up the Volume

While some teens have spent the summer as camp counselors, still others are taking a more high-tech hiatus from school as they prepare for computer science studies and careers as computer programmers. KWHS checks in with a few students who designed iPhone game apps in Palo Alto, Calif., with the help of a Silicon Valley startup.…

Gamers Get their Apps On at an Internship in Silicon Valley

The Wharton Global Youth program set out to spotlight the intersection of chess and business skills through the experiences and insights of high school chess players who have career aspirations in the business world. With tools in-hand -- namely pawns, knights, rooks, bishops, a queen and a king -- these teens are sharpening their business acumen, one strategic move at a time. …

Checkmate: Chess and the Game of Business

African football (soccer) player and high school student Muna Yussuf would like to add sports business entrepreneur to her credits. During a recent Wharton visit, Yussuf sat down with KWHS to discuss some of her ideas for improving the sports infrastructure in Africa -- with the help of innovative thinking and social media.…

Muna Yussuf on Strengthening Sports in Africa — Starting with the Confederations Cup

India’s cultural heritage was on display around the globe last week with the five-day celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights that is also known as the Indian New Year. Even without the colorful clothing and creative dance, India has caught the eye of the business world – including Hollywood and the film industry – as an important market. This Knowledge@Wharton Today blog points to recent deals that illustrate why India’s media and entertainment industry is quickly moving center stage.…

Hollywood Goes Bollywood in Deals that Define an Important Market

At age 14, Marina López Aísa of Spain created Navhy, a YouTube channel with subtitled videos that showcase the lyrics of top American hits in both English and Spanish. Two years and 20 million online visits later, she has had to put Navhy on the back burner because of copyright issues. She talks to KWHS about her latest projects as a technology entrepreneur.…

A Young Entrepreneur Deals with Copyright Woes on Her YouTube Channel

Mouhammad “Mo” Fall, 16, is a rising senior at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fall and several of his classmates came up with the idea to create an African Sports Academy to help nurture and develop sports talent in South Africa. He talks with Knowledge@Wharton High School about his plans for improving the sports infrastructure in his country. …

Mo Fall Dreams of Playing Basketball for an African League

Ashley MacPhaille, 17, is a rising senior at the Academy of The Sacred Heart in New Orleans. She sat down with KWHS to discuss Hurricane Katrina, an internship with the Saints and her role model, Rita Benson LeBlanc.…

New Orleans Saints Intern Ashley MacPhaille on the Power of Sports to Unify a City