Nations all over the world are scrambling to rein within the coronavirus and perceive its final medical and financial impacts.

One outstanding enterprise college is utilizing the turmoil as a studying alternative.

The Wharton Faculty on the College of Pennsylvania will quickly start providing a brand new course concerning the coronavirus  the illness that is contaminated almost 128,000 individuals worldwide  and different black-swan occasions which have wreaked havoc on markets, companies and economies globally.

A major purpose of the category  referred to as "Epidemics, pure disasters and geopolitics: managing world enterprise and monetary uncertainty"  is to convey "knowledgeable information on methods to take care of these crises to traders, employees, shoppers and savers, in order that they're higher knowledgeable and may make higher choices," mentioned Mauro Guillen, a professor of worldwide administration, who coordinated the category.

The half-semester course, which begins March 25, has confirmed widespread 450 college students have already...