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Wharton Executive Education Helps Close the Management Competency Gap with People Management for Emerging Leaders

Open-enrollment, live online program will run September 3–October 15, 2024 PHILADELPHIA, March 12, 2024 – Are all managers adequately prepared to do their jobs? Unfortunately, no, statistics indicate. “Across organizations of all types, manager training is broken,” asserts a 2023 Forbes article, which notes that 59 percent of those supervising one to two people, and 41 ...Read More

2024 Lipman Family Prize Winners Named

Grand Prize Winner will be announced April 18 PHILADELPHIA, March 8, 2024 – Food for Education, Seacology, and Simprints have been named as winners of the 2024 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from an applicant pool of 125+ organizations, all three winners are guaranteed an unrestricted financial award of $125,000 as well as executive ...Read More

Wharton Profs. Susan Wachter, Michael Roberts, David Musto and Christina Skinner to Present on the Real Estate Market, Financial Literacy and AI, Share Buybacks and Financial Markets at Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists Virtual Program, April 11

Applications now open, deadline to apply is Wednesday, April 3 What: The Wharton School is pleased to invite business journalists to apply for the next virtual Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program. The April 2024 program will feature Wharton professors Susan Wachter, Michael Roberts, David Musto and Christina Skinner, who will present on “Mortgages, Markets, and More: The Future ...Read More

Schmidt Sciences Names Wharton Professor Daniel Rock to Second Cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows

Nineteen Early Career Fellows Selected to Solve Challenges in Artificial Intelligence Through Multidisciplinary Research, With Up To $5.5 Million in Support from Schmidt Sciences NEW YORK, March 4, 2024 — Today, Schmidt Sciences announced that Wharton Professor Daniel Rock will join the second cohort of nineteen AI2050 Early Career Fellows who will pursue bold and multidisciplinary ...Read More

Jiaoyang Huang, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Named Among 2024 Sloan Research Fellows

126 outstanding early-career researchers honored across seven fields. NEW YORK, February 20, 2024—The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announces the names of the 126 early-career researchers who have been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2024. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments ...Read More

New Program from Wharton Executive Education Shows Business Leaders and Investors How to Invest in and Engage with Fixed-Income Markets and Products

Open-enrollment program will run April 2–5, 2024, at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus PHILADELPHIA, February 6, 2024 – Higher interest rates and market volatility are bringing renewed attention to fixed-income investments, with some institutions and investors taking a closer look at the asset class for the first time in decades. Wharton Finance Professor Michael Roberts calls these investments ...Read More

Wharton Executive Education Answers Executive Demand with the launch of Generative AI and Business Transformation

Open-enrollment program will run March 4-7, 2024 at Wharton’s San Francisco campus PHILADELPHIA, December 11, 2023 – The emergence of generative AI is triggering a transformative shift throughout the culture, operations, and strategies of organizations everywhere. As executives struggle to understand its implications, many are realizing they simply don’t possess the knowledge and tools necessary to ...Read More

Wharton Executive Education Announces Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change

PHILADELPHIA, November 30, 2023 – In response to the myriad of changes revolutionizing the health care industry, the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new open-enrollment program Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change. Drawing on faculty expertise from Wharton’s MBA and Health ...Read More

Wharton Executive Education Launches Executive Influence: Increasing Your Impact with Persuasion and Power

PHILADELPHIA, September 21, 2023 – Many executives are tempted to assume that if they’re smart, hardworking, and creative, corporate recognition and career success will naturally follow. But research shows they must also possess the critical skill of influencing people. That is why the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University ...Read More

Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize to Honor Kyle for Market Microstructure at September Conference

PHILADELPHIA, September 15, 2023—The 2023 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation will be awarded to Albert S. “Pete” Kyle at a conference hosted by the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The event will be held Friday, September 22 in New York. Kyle ...Read More