The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the winner of the second annual Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize is – READ Global, an international non-profit bringing together education, enterprise, and community development through libraries that create lasting social change in rural South Asia. …Read More
The Wharton School’s Social Impact and Private Equity/Venture Capital student clubs announced that the student team 1DocWay won the $3,000 Grand Prize of the inaugural Wharton Social Venture Business Plan Competition.…Read More
As one of five winners in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge, the Wharton Social Impact Initiative helped to design the Philadelphia Social Enterprise Partnership, a proposal that will stimulate creative ideas to improve city life and address some of its biggest issues like poverty, housing and education.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Monica Medina has been named Executive Director of the Wharton Public Policy Initiative.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced that University of Pennsylvania alumna and Trustee Andrea Mitchell 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 Inder Sidhu, Cisco Senior Vice President of Strategy for Worldwide Operations, will be the featured speaker at the School’s 2013 graduation ceremony for the MBA Program for Executives at Wharton | San Francisco. …Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Wharton MBA for Executives alumnus Alex Gorsky, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Johnson & Johnson, will be the featured speaker at the School’s first-ever MBA for Executives graduation ceremony in Philadelphia. …Read More
Twenty-three teams of MBA students analyzed an investment opportunity in Staples for senior Private Equity professionals. A team from The Wharton School placed in 1st, with teams from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Columbia Business School in 2nd and 3rd, respectively. …Read More
To meet the increasing demand of managers in need of a business basics primer, Wharton Executive Education has launched its newest program, Advancing Business Acumen.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Cisco today unveiled the learning experience of the future — one that blends life-size visual communication via telepresence with collaboration technologies that significantly enhance the way faculty, students and alumni interact and learn, no matter how distant they may be from physical classrooms.…Read More
Wharton Executive Education announced that it will be the host of the 2013 CEO Connection Mid-Market Convention, which will be held Oct. 21 through Oct. 24, 2013, on the Wharton School’s University of Pennsylvania campus. …Read More
The Aresty Institute for Executive Education at the Wharton School announces a first-of-its-kind MBA-level program for financial professionals called Raising Capital to Fund Growth.…Read More
Wharton’s Aresty Institute for Executive Education today announced a new global strategy program designed to help Indian executives navigate the complexities of growth in foreign markets.…Read More
The University of Pennsylvania announced that student team IDENTIFIED won the $5,000 Grand Prize of the 2012 Y-Prize Competition (yprize.upenn.edu), which includes rights to commercialize their application of Penn-owned robotics technology.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a $1.65 million contribution from Ellen Hanson Perlman and Richard E. Perlman to name The Perlman Prize to be awarded through the annual Wharton Business Plan Competition managed by Wharton Entrepreneurship.…Read More
Co-sponsored by Penn Engineering, the Weiss Tech House, the Center for Technology Transfer, and the Wharton School, the Y-Prize is a brand new competition in which student teams propose innovative commercial applications for technology invented by University of Pennsylvania researchers.…Read More
Wharton School professors contribute to a study showing persistent economic malaise coupled with frequent extreme weather events are an increasingly dangerous mix.…Read More
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the leading comprehensive, internet-based data research service, is pleased to announce its partnership with Zacks Investment Research, Inc.…Read More
Doha GOALS – Gathering of All Leaders in Sports – has partnered with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in advance of its December Forum.…Read More
Evolv, the leading provider of SaaS-based workforce profitability solutions, today announced a collaboration with the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the groundbreaking academic contributor of relevant research concerning domestic and international human resources for close to a century.…Read More
