A new research study to be published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management gives credence to the power of evidence based management, big data and machine learning when examining the performance of today’s digital platform and networked based business models. …Read More
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler today announced the appointment of Katja Seim as chief economist for the Federal Communications Commission, effective July 1, 2016. Dr. Seim currently serves as an associate professor of business economics and public policy……Read More
With a generous $1 million gift from Vernon and Shirley Hill, Penn Vet will establish the Robert Marshak-Vernon Hill Scholarship Fund in collaboration with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.…Read More
The Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation will be awarded to Nobel Laureate William F. Sharpe at the Spring Forum of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research. …Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Celeste Corrado will serve as the new Director of the Wharton Small Business Development Center (Wharton SBDC).…Read More
Soccer Without Borders was named today as the winner of the 2016 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from more than 170 applicants around the globe, this small-but-mighty social change organization uses the universal platform of soccer to help children succeed. …Read More
Wharton Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the “Great Eight” finalists who will compete for over $125,000 in prizes at the Wharton Business Plan Competition Venture Finals Thursday, April 28, 2016. …Read More
The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative’s (WCAI) annual conference, Successful Applications of Customer Analytics, will be held on April 29th, 2016 at the Logan Hotel in Philadelphia.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced undergraduate alumna, Jacqueline Reses (W’92), Capital Lead of Square, will be the featured speaker at the School’s 2016 MBA for Executives San Francisco graduation ceremony.…Read More
Today the Angel Capital Association (ACA) and Wharton Entrepreneurship announced a partnership to complete the first comprehensive study to understand who angel investors are, how they became angels, and what factors influence their investing activity. …Read More
Mr. and Mrs. Trone’s gift will establish the Trone Family Public Policy Initiative Fund, providing funding for research and other critical support promoting clear, fact-driven, accessible knowledge to stimulate policies that benefit the American public.…Read More
The winning organization will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, as well as executive training and support from Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.…Read More
The NPD Group Inc., a global information company, has partnered with the Wharton School’s Baker Retailing Center on a study analyzing purchasing behavior of Millennials, Generation X and Boomers.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Wharton MBA alumna, Ruth Porat (WG’87), Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet, formerly Google, will be the featured speaker at the School’s MBA graduation in Philadelphia.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Anthony Noto, (Wharton MBA for Executives Class 23, Wharton MBA ’99), a Wharton MBA for Executives alumnus, will be the featured speaker at the School’s MBA for Executives graduation ceremony in Philadelphia.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is delighted to announce a $10 million commitment from Anne Welsh McNulty, (Wharton MBA Class of 1979), which will drive the expansion and global reach of the current Wharton Leadership Program, building on a foundation of over 20 years of innovation and impact in leadership development.…Read More
The University of Pennsylvania announced that student team Fermento won the $10,000 Grand Prize of the 2016 Y-Prize Competition, which includes rights to commercialize their application of Penn-owned biomedical engineering technology.…Read More
Germany is viewed as the best country in the world, according to the inaugural Best Countries report, a joint rankings and analysis project of U.S. News & World Report, WPP’s BAV Consulting and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. …Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced it will offer two new Specializations through Coursera: a Specialization in “Entrepreneurship” and a Specialization in “Business and Financial Modeling.”…Read More
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2016, undertaken in conjunction with the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center of the University of Pennsylvania for the past 11 years, reports opinions of 750 experts who assessed 29 global risks for both impact and likelihood over a 10-year time horizon and is being released today in advance of the Forum’s annual meeting taking place next week in Davos.…Read More
