
Tangen Hall will house a new Venture Lab and, for the first time, centralize student entrepreneurship at Penn…Read More
Tangen Hall will house a new Venture Lab and, for the first time, centralize student entrepreneurship at Penn…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, October 23, 2018 — At a dedication ceremony today, brothers Leonard A. Lauder, W’54 and Ronald S. Lauder, W’65 will join Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett to celebrate the remodeling of the building housing the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management & International Studies, which the…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, October 2, 2018 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the largest single gift ever given to the School – $50 million from Marc J. Rowan, W’84, WG’85 and Carolyn Rowan.…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, October 2, 2018 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania today announced that it has increased its More Than Ever campaign goal to $1 billion, an opportunity made possible by record levels of support and engagement from the School’s alumni and friends to incubate ideas that transform business,…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, September 20, 2018 — Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, today named 17 world-class researchers as Citation Laureates – researchers whose work is deemed to be, ‘of Nobel stature’, as attested by markedly high citation tallies recorded in the…Read More
Philadelphia / Mumbai, September 10, 2018: The NSE Academy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE), Knowledge@Wharton (K@W), the online journal of research and business analysis of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton Executive Education (WEE) have signed a Memorandum of…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, September 6, 2018 — The University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a $2 million gift to the Behavior Change for Good Initiative from Marc J. Leder, W’83, which promises to accelerate the effort to solve the problem of enduring behavior change.The donation establishes the Marc J. Leder Behavior…Read More
WHAT: The 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse is September 15. Well before that fateful day Wharton School professors were studying seismic changes taking place in the finance world. That discussion continues when Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett, himself a political scientist, hosts a dynamic panel called, “The Future of Finance:…Read More
Six campuses, two schools, one alliance — creating a worldwide network unique among global business schools PHILADELPHIA, PA, August 23, 2018—The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and INSEAD are pleased to announce the renewal of their strategic alliance through June 2021. Established in 2001, the Wharton-INSEAD Alliance combines the…Read More
Just weeks to apply before Wharton Public Policy Initiative Funding deadline What: The Wharton School is pleased to invite business journalists to apply for the Penn Wharton Public Policy Funding, which will allow up to five business reporters who cover aspects of public policy to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 15, 2018 – The University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a gift of $1 million from Johnson & Johnson to the School of Nursing and the Wharton School. This investment launches the Nursing/Wharton Impact Scholars Loan Program, a program that will increase the number of health care…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 4, 2018 — The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania today announced the launch of The Ripple Project at Penn. This joint-school effort is supported by the blockchain-based global payments leader Ripple under its just-announced University Blockchain Research…Read More
WHAT: 52nd ANNUAL WHARTON GLOBAL FORUM You are invited to the first Wharton Global Forum ever to be held in New York City, home to Wharton’s largest alumni population. This event will bring together alumni speakers — leaders in business, government, media, academia, and the nonprofit world — to share their deep expertise…Read More
In GO LONG, authors Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel reveal how some of the world’s most prominent business leaders resisted short-term pressures to successfully manage their organizations for the long term, and in turn, aim to create more jobs, more satisfied customers, and more shareholder wealth.…Read More
BARBARA E. KAHN’S NEW BOOK, THE SHOPPING REVOLUTION, REVEALS A FRAMEWORK THAT ANY COMPANY CAN USE TO CREATE A POWERFUL RETAIL STRATEGY PHILADELPHIA, PA, MAY 3, 2018—A quick look at the headlines reveals the challenges facing retailers… Retail defaults are at a historic high, with Toys R Us, Claire’s, and…Read More
Two-day event will explore how companies leverage analytics with keynote addresses and hands-on seminars PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiatives (WCAI), a part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, will host its annual conference, Successful Applications of Customer Analytics, May 9-10, 2018 at the Inn…Read More
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Wharton Research Data Services, SSRN and Elsevier are pleased to announce Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart School of Business as the winner of the 2018 North America WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award™, honoring emerging business schools. Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the leading data research platform and business intelligence…Read More
Startup Showcase A Huge Success, Featuring Startups From Across Penn PHILADELPHIA, PA, April 30, 2018—Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Startup Challenge, sponsored by Eric Aroesty, C’92: Sanguis, founded by Divyansh Agarwal, GR’23, M’23, Prateek Agarwal, M’19, WG’20, and Daniel Zhang, GR’23, M’23.…Read More
Operation ASHA and Ubuntu Pathways Win $50,000 Each Philadelphia, PA – myAgro has been named as the winner of the 2018 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from more than 100 applicants around the globe, myAgro is a pioneering mobile layaway saving model that enables smallholder farmers to invest…Read More
Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, MD, April 20, 2018 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announces that it has entered into a collaboration with Morgan State University’s Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management focused on faculty and student academic programs. This is the first collaboration of…Read More