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Employee turnover costs more than you think
Smartphone factory assembly line.

Employee turnover costs more than you think

A new study from Wharton’s Ken Moon reveals the hidden cost of employee turnover by drawing a direct link between higher quit rates and product failure for a smartphone manufacturer.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Travel and the middle class
Image of an airport with a plane attached to the gate

Even as ticket prices are going up, the demand for air travel remains high. The crowding is compounded by an overall shortage of pilots, a lack of staff to check in luggage and long security lines to get to the gates.

Travel and the middle class

With the inflation boom, how long will travel be sustainable?

Kristina Linnea García

Inflation hits back-to-school shopping
Car packed with school supplies on top of it and money falling out.

Inflation hits back-to-school shopping

Barbara Kahn, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School, says high inflation makes back-to-school spending harder for families.

Dee Patel