26 Teams Named Semi-Finalists with Concepts Including: Vice-stopping mobile app; Disposable Flip Flops for Public Showers; Nasal Allergy; Drug Therapy; Probiotic “Healthy” Soda; Brazilian Baby Buying Site…Read More
Press Releases
How Companies Can Win in a World with Two Rates of Growth: Fast and Slow
New Four-Part Report Features Insights from The Boston Consulting Group and Wharton Faculty…Read More
Wharton School and Women’s World Banking Focus on Global Innovation in the Microfinance Industry
Second Annual Advanced Leadership Program Unites 25 Microfinance Leaders From Around the World to Hone Skills and Exchange Ideas…Read More
Knowledge@Wharton and Wipro Announce Launch of Global Innovation Tournament
Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Wipro Technologies, a provider of transformational IT solutions, will conduct a global Innovation Tournament in 2011.…Read More
University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School Announce $6.5 million gift from Barry R. Lipman to Establish the Lipman Family Prize in Leadership and Innovation
The University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School are pleased to announce a $6.5 million gift from Barry R. Lipman to establish the Lipman Family Prize.…Read More
World Economic Forum Global Risks Report warns of long shadow of the financial crisis
The World Economic Forum today released Global Risks 2010, its annual report on the most significant and underlying global risks facing the global economy this year and beyond.…Read More
Time-Worn Negotiation Practices Lead To Conflict and Lost Opportunities Worldwide, According To Pulitzer Prize-Winning Professor at Wharton Business School
GETTING MORE, an Immediate New York Times Bestseller, Debunks the Conventional Wisdom of Win-Win, the Use of Power, and Our Expectation of Rational Behavior…Read More
Customer Analytics Initiative Launches at The Wharton School
The Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Broadens Focus to Customer Analytics…Read More
University of Pennsylvania Names Two New PIK Professors: Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock
Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock have been appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge professors at the University of Pennsylvania. …Read More
Wharton Announces Enhancements to MBA Program Design Offering Increased Flexibility for Students and Unprecedented Commitment to Life Long Education for MBA Graduates
To Embrace a New Global Generation of MBA Students, the Wharton School Changes Curriculum Design to Promote Individualized Learning…Read More
Secrets of International Business Success Detailed in New Book, ‘The New Multinationals’
Authors Mauro Guillen and Esteban Garcia-Canal examine the success of Spain’s multinational companies to demonstrate how networking and other traditional methods can be used to conquer global markets…Read More
Wharton School, World Bank Group, and FMO of the Netherlands Launch Housing Finance Information Network Web Portal
The Wharton School’s International Housing Finance Program, the World Bank Group, and FMO of the Netherlands have launched a new Housing Finance Information Network (HOFINET) Web Portal.…Read More
Wharton School Announces $15 Million Gift from Patty and Jay H. Baker to Establish the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a $15 million gift from Patty and Jay H. Baker…Read More
Wharton School to Host 2011 Global Alumni Forum in San Francisco
The Wharton School announced that, for the first time in the history of the Wharton Global Alumni Forums, the School next year will combine the three regional Forums into a single event.…Read More
Wharton School Announces Establishment of Partnership for Globalization with Sovereign Bank and Santander Universities
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the establishment of a Partnership for Globalization with Sovereign Bank…Read More
Wharton Launches New Family Business Fellows Program Modeled on Successful Entrepreneur-in-Residence Series Now in Tenth Year
Business Leaders from CCC Alliance, Radio One and Thrillist.com to Meet One-on-One with Wharton and Penn Students…Read More
Wharton | San Francisco Hires New COO
Bernie Birt will become the Executive Director of Wharton | San Francisco on September 2nd.…Read More
Wharton School Announces $1.25 Million Gift from The Travelers Companies, Inc.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a $1.25 million gift from The Travelers Companies, Inc., to establish the Travelers/Wharton Partnership for Risk Management and Leadership Fund.…Read More
Wharton | San Francisco Hosts Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Diana Farrell August 10 to Discuss Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School announces that Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Diana Farrell, a principal architect for the President on the Act within the National Economic Council, will speak at Wharton | San Francisco to MBA for Executives students, faculty and business leaders.…Read More
Wharton Hosts Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal S. Wolin August 5 to Discuss Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
On the heels of the enactment of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School hosted the Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal S. Wolin, one of the Administration’s key architects of financial reform, who spoke to students, faculty and business leaders…Read More