Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Wharton School

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Mission Apply unparalleled intellectual resources to prepare business leaders who fuel the growth of industries and economies throughout the world
Established 1881
Official name The Wharton School
University University of Pennsylvania
School type Private
Endowment $615 million
Dean Patrick T. Harker
Faculty 304
Undergraduates 2,304
Graduates 1,671
Alumni 81,000
Location Philadelphia, PA, USA

Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was Established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s first collegiate business school. In conjunction with the other schools and colleagues of the university, Wharton grants B.S., MBA and PhD degrees, and holds several diploma programs.

Since the 1990s, the popular press has repeatedly ranked Wharton as one of the top institutions for business education in the world [1]. Moreover, it has been ranked the best business school in the world by Financial Times in every year in which the magazine has ranked business schools, except for 2005, when it tied with Harvard.[2] Wharton usually receives the highest reputational scores from academics and recruiters.[3].

Wharton School has over 300 standing professors, the world’s most published and most cited business school faculty, and its 8 student-to-faculty ratio is one of the best among U.S. business schools. With the most electives of any business school, Wharton offers concentrations in Accounting, Business and Public Policy, Entrepreneurial Management, Environmental Management, Finance, Health Care Systems, Human Resource and Organizational Management, Insurance and Risk Management, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Management, Marketing, Multinational Management, Operations and Information Management, Real Estate, Retailing, Statistics and Strategic Management.

An article in a prestigious academic journal ranked Wharton as a top school for the combination of scholarly achievements and excellence in teaching [4]. Most recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education rated Wharton's Marketing, Management, and Accounting departments as the first, second, and third in the world for research productivity, respectively [5].

The admissions process at Wharton highly selective — it is one of the most competitive business school in the U.S. A high GPA, high GMAT score, and very strong non-quantitative credentials are typically prerequisites to admission. It is known as a popular destination for Rhodes Scholars upon their return from Oxford University[citation needed].

The School publishes an influential on-line journal, Knowledge@Wharton, that is "the envy of every other school",[6] and a newly established publishing house Wharton School Publishing. Wharton maintain the world's largest financial, economics, management, marketing, and public policy data warehouses accessible through state-of-the-art web-based data management services, called WRDS.

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[edit] History

The Wharton School, the world’s first collegiate business school, was founded in 1881 by Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist Joseph Wharton. A native Philadelphian, Wharton became a leader in industrial metallurgy and built a fortune through his American Nickel Company and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The anvil, a School symbol, reflects Wharton’s pioneering work in the metal industry. Joseph Wharton envisioned creating a new collegiate foundation that would produce educated leaders of business and government. From the beginning, he defined the goal of the Wharton School of Finance and Economy (its original name) to be: "to provide for young men special means of training and of correct instruction in the knowledge and in the arts of modern Finance and Economy, both public and private, in order that, being well informed and free from delusions upon these important subjects, they may either serve the community skillfully as well as faithfully in offices of trust, or, remaining in private life, may prudently manage their own affairs and aid in maintaining sound financial morality: in short, to establish means for imparting a liberal education in all matters concerning Finance and Economy."

Setting an early standard for innovation, Wharton published the first business textbooks, established the first research center at a business school, created the first center for entrepreneurship, created the first program in international management, established the first MBA in health care and real estate, and developed the first executive education program. To this day, it is regarded as one of the world's leading business and management schools, and employs the world's largest, most cited faculty with 304 standing and associate members.

[edit] Academics

The school has 304 standing and associated faculty, 11 academic departments and 20 research centers and initiatives. The institutional mission of the Wharton School: to apply unparalleled intellectual resources to prepare business leaders who fuel the growth of industries and economies throughout the world.

Academic Departments

  • Accounting
  • Business and Public Policy
  • Finance
  • Health Care Systems
  • Insurance and Risk Management
  • Legal Studies
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Operations and Information Management
  • Real Estate
  • Statistics

Research Centers

  • Reginald Jones Center for Management, Strategy, and Organization
  • Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management
  • William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation
  • Emerging Technologies Management Research Program
  • Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
  • SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management
  • Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center
  • Weiss Center for International Financial Research
  • Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
  • Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research
  • Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center
  • Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research

Wharton MBA Program (MBA)

Eighteen majors are available to Wharton MBA students, who can also elect to pursue double majors or individualized majors. During their first year students pursue a required core curriculum. After completing the first year, electives are available. The MBA program offers nearly 200 electives within Wharton's 11 academic departments, the "largest" selection of any business school.[7] Thousands of other University electives are also offered through other Penn schools. Wharton also offers MBA Program for Executives which is a two-year, weekend residential program built on the same curriculum as regular MBA program. Executive program is offered in two locations: on the Wharton campus in Philadelphia and at Wharton West in San Francisco

Wharton's required pre-term includes coursework, waiver testing, and the "Learning Team Retreat". Coursework includes introductory and review courses in financial accounting, microeconomics, statistics, and financial analysis. Preparatory courses cover material not included in Fall coursework that students are expected to understand. In addition, Pre-term includes classes on business history and languages, as well as short seminars in communication skills, computing technology, trading simulations, and career management.

Offered on a quarterly schedule throughout the first year, core courses cover traditional management disciplines finance, marketing, statistics, and strategy, as well as the leadership, ethics, and communication skills needed at senior levels of management.

Academic Honors for MBA Program

The top academic honor in the Wharton MBA Program is the Palmer Scholar designation, given to the top 5% of the graduating MBA class. Students who rank in the top 20% of the graduating class after both their first and second years are awarded Graduation with Honors. Students who rank in the top 20% of their class after the first year are awarded First Year Honors.

The student (or students) with the top cumulative GPA at the end of the first-year of the MBA Program is awarded the Ford Fellowship.

Only grades earned from courses taken at Wharton qualify for academic honors. Courses taken Pass/Fail or electives taken outside of Wharton do not count towards the eligibility for academic honors, but do count towards the MBA degree.

Wharton Doctoral Programs Wharton grants PhD degrees (as opposed to some programs, which grant DBAs.) It take approximately four to six years to complete the program. Eleven fields of specialization are offered by the program: Accounting, Business and Public Policy, Ethics and Legal Studies, Finance, Health Care Systems, Insurance and Risk Management, Management, Marketing, Operations and Information Management, Real Estate, and Statistics. The entering class of 2005 contained 34 students, half of which were U.S. citizens. The average age of an entering student is 26. All Wharton doctoral students are funded.[8]

International study Options for international study and experience include Wharton's Lauder Institute, the Global Immersion Program, Leadership Ventures, Global Consulting Practicum, and exchange programs with schools in 11 countries, including an INSEAD alliance.

Dual and joint degrees

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Wharton MBA students may pursue a dual degree with Lauder Institute, Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies or in one of the graduate schools at the University of Pennsylvania:

Wharton Undergraduates may pursue joint degrees in engineering through the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, international business through the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Nursing & Health Care Management, and a joint program in life sciences and business through the The Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. Undergraduates may also, independent from these programs, pursue dual degrees with any of Penn's three other undergraduate schools.

[edit] Alumni network

Wharton alumni network has 81,000+ members in 142 countries around the world. There are eighty-two alumni clubs providing support to the School. In addition to the annual campus-based Wharton reunion, Wharton partners with its alumni clubs to mount three annual Global Alumni Forums around the world. Notable alumni include[9]

Industry

  • Anil Ambani, Chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
  • Geralyn Breig, Former President, Godiva International
  • Julian A. Brodsky, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Interactive Capital
  • Charles Butt, Founder, CEO and Chairman, H-E-B Grocery Company
  • Robert Castellini, owner, Cincinnati Reds.
  • Robert B. Cavanaugh, CFO, J.C. Penney
  • Frank Cerminara, CEO and CFO, Hershey
  • Art Collins, Chairman and CEO, Medtronic
  • Stephen Cooper, Interim CEO, Enron
  • Michael Adler, CFO of Expedia
  • Robert L. Crandall, Chairman and CEO, American Airlines
  • Donny Deutsch, Chairman and CEO, Deutsch Inc
  • Mike Eskew, Chairman and CEO, UPS
  • Jerome Fisher, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Nine West Group
  • Rakesh Gangwal, Chairman and CEO, US Airways
  • C. Christopher Gaut, CFO, Halliburton
  • Robert B. Goergen, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Blyth
  • Stanley Goldstein, Founder, CEO and Chairman, CVS
  • Paul R B Harner, Chairman, Berkmont Industries
  • Luiz Augusto Heeren, CEO, British-American Tobacco
  • Robert M. Hernandez, Vice Chairman and CFO, USX Corporation
  • Lee S. Hillman, Chairman, CEO, Bally Total Fitness
  • Donald D. Humphreys, COO, Exxon Mobil
  • Jon Huntsman, Sr., Founder, Chairman and CEO, Huntsman Corporation
  • Reginald Jones, Former Chairman and CEO, General Electric
  • W. Leo Kiely, III, President and COO, Coors Brewing Company
  • Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman and Co-CEO, Fuji Xerox
  • Michael Kowalski, President and CEO, Tiffany & Co.
  • Dwayne Lamont Rayner, CEO, Renaissance Capital Management
  • Leonard A. Lauder, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Estee Lauder Companies
  • Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco
  • William E. Macaulay, Chairman and CEO, First Reserve Corporation.
  • Alan Miller, Founder and CEO, Universal Health Services
  • Aditya Mittal, President and CFO, Mittal Steel Company
  • Robert S. Morrison, Chairman and CEO, Quaker Oats Company;
  • Robert Morrison, former CEO, Kraft Foods
  • Arnold J. Palmer, Chairman and CEO, Hudson Industries Corporation
  • Manuel Pangilinan, CEO and Chairman, First Pacific
  • Nelson Peltz, CEO of Triarc Cos.(Snapple, Arby's, TJ Cinnamon and Pasta Connection)
  • Ronald O. Perelman, Chairman and CEO, MacAndrews & Forbes Group
  • Lou Platt, Chairman and CEO, Boeing
  • Robert Potamkin, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Planet Automotive Group
  • Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Pfizer
  • John Richards, President, Starbucks
  • Jean-Pierre C. Rosso, CEO and Chairman, CNH Global N.V.
  • Rick Simonson, President, Nokia
  • Susan M. Stalnecker, Vice President, Du Pont
  • Howard R. Suslak, Chairman and Co-CEO, Mac Donald and Company
  • Nicholas F. Taubman, CEO and Chairman, Advance Auto Parts
  • James S. Tisch, CEO, Loews Corporation
  • Laurence A. Tisch, Chairman, Loews Corporation
  • Gary L. Wilson, Chairman and CEO, Northwest Airlines
  • Kenneth L. Wolfe, Chairman and CEO, Hershey Foods
  • Richard D. Wood, Chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company
  • Peter T. Worthen, Chairman and CEO, Schreiber Corporation
  • William Wrigley Jr, CEO, Wm. Wrigley Jr.
  • Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman and CEO, Deutsche Post
  • Nirmal Anand, Chairman and CEO, Mattappilly Infotech

Finance

  • Zeti Aziz, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia
  • Thomas M. Bayer, Chairman, European Bank
  • Alfred R. Berkeley, Vice Chairman NASDAQ Stock Market
  • Henry W. Bloch, Founder, H&R Block
  • Richard A. Bloch, Founder, H&R Block
  • Mitchell J. Blutt, Executive Partner, J.P. Morgan Partners
  • Dr. Boediono, Governor, Central bank of Indonesia
  • Geoff Boisi, CEO, J.P. Morgan Chase
  • Christopher Browne, Co-Founder, Tweedy, Browne Company
  • Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
  • Peter A. Burt, CEO, Bank of Scotland
  • Frank V. Cahouet, Former Chairman and CEO, Mellon Bank Corporation
  • Steven A. Cohen, Founder, SAC Capital Partners
  • Angel Corcóstegui, CEO, Banco Santander Central Hispano
  • Passera Corrado, CEO, Banca Intesa of Italy
  • Peter G. Coyiuto, CEO, First Guarantee Life Assurance Company
  • Edward E. Crutchfield, Chairman and CEO, First Union Corporation
  • Jose L. Cuisia, Governor of the Central Bank of Philippines
  • Antonio De Sousa Franco, Governor of the Bank of Portugal
  • Kenneth P. DeAngelis, Founding Partner, Austin Ventures
  • Pridiyathorn Devakula, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand
  • James Dinan, CEO and Founder, York Capital Management
  • Frank B. Fisher, Chairman and CEO, American National Bank
  • Catherine Austin Fitts, CEO and Founder, Solari
  • Samuel J. Foti, President and COO, MONY Life Insurance
  • Eugene Garfield, Chairman Emeritus, Thomson Scientific
  • Thomas M. Garrott III, Chairman and CEO, National Commerce Bancorporation
  • Leonard I. Green, Founder and Partner, Leonard Green & Partners
  • Bulent Gultekin, Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
  • James A. Harmon, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the U.S
  • Robert F. Henricksen, Chairman and CEO, Northwest Bank
  • C. Robert Henrikson, Chairman, President and CEO, MetLife
  • Vernon Hill, Chairman and CEO, Commerce Bank
  • Akinari Horii, Governor, Bank of Japan
  • A. Romeo Horton, Founder, African Development Bank; President Emeritus, the Bank of Liberia;
  • Benny T. Hu, President, China Development Industrial Bank
  • Jonathon Jacobson, Co-Founder, Highfields Capital Management
  • Serck Joo Hong, President and CEO of Chohung Bank of Korea
  • Jeffrey Koo Jr, Chairman and CEO, Chinatrust Commercial Bank and founder of Crimson Capital
  • Vincent P. Lisanke, President and CEO, American Express Credit Corp
  • Thomas F. Loeb, Chairman and CEO, Mellon Capital Management
  • Peter Lynch, Vice Chairman, Fidelity
  • Robert I. MacDonnell, Founder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company
  • Howard S. Marks, Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management
  • Joe McNay, Chairman and Founder, Essex Investment Management
  • Michael Milken, Inventor of the junk bond market
  • Bill Miller, CEO, Legg Mason Capital Management
  • James E. Moltz, Chairman and President, Deutsche Bank
  • Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
  • David R. Murray, President and CEO, Vanguard Venture Partners
  • John Neff, Chairman, Wellington Management
  • Robert J. Newhouse, CEO and Chairman, Marsh & Mc Lennan Companies Inc
  • Dan Och, Founder, Och-Ziff Capital Management
  • Farouk al-Okdah, Governor, Central Bank of Egypt
  • Ronald Perelman, American investor and businessman.
  • David Pottruck, Co-CEO of the Charles Schwab
  • David Pullman, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Pullman Group
  • Frank Quattrone, Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Group
  • Julio A. De Quesada, President and Chairman, Citigroup
  • Charles S. Sanford, Jr., retired chairman and CEO of Bankers Trust Co
  • Ted Schlein, Senior Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • Henning Schulte-Noelle, CEO and Chairman, Allianz AG
  • Chulakorn Singhakowin, Chairman and President, Bank of Asia
  • Winthrop H. Smith, Chairman, Merrill Lynch
  • Valeri Telegin, Chairman, Bank of Russia
  • Yoshio Terasawa, Chairman, The Tokyo Star Bank
  • Todd Thomson, CEO, Smith Barney and Head of Global Weath Manegment Group
  • Lawrence G. Tint, CEO, Barclays Global Investors
  • Anthony F. Vuoto, President and CEO, First USA Bank
  • Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman and CEO, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (Bank of Sweden)
  • John A. Ward, Chairman and CEO, American Express Bank
  • Norman M. Wayne, CEO, CIGNA Reinsurance
  • Arthur F. Weinbach, Chairman and CEO, Automatic Data Processing Inc
  • Alfred West Jr, CEO, SEI Investments
  • Allen D. Wheat, Chairman and CEO, Credit Suisse
  • Richard B. Williams, Chairman and CEO, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
  • Martin Zweig, Investment advisor, author of Winning on Wall Street
  • Rush M. McCloy, Founder, Channelstone Partners

High Tech

Media

  • Walter Annenberg, CEO of Triangle Publications, Founder of Seventeen Magazine and TV Guide
  • Leslie E. Bider, Chairman and CEO, Warner/Chappell Music
  • Jon McBride, CEO, MBA Jungle
  • Roberto F. Civita, Chairman and CEO, Abril S.A. São Paulo, Brazil
  • Bruce E. Crawford, Chairman, The Omnicom Group
  • Donny Deutsch, Chairman, Deutsch, Inc. and host of CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch"
  • Lorenzo diBonaventura, Co-President, Warner Brothers Studios
  • Derek Ferguson, CFO Bady Boy Entertainment
  • Michael D. Fleisher, CEO, Gartner
  • David P. Glickman, Founder and Chairman, TelePacific Communications
  • Hussam Hamadeh, Founder and Chairman, Vault.com
  • Alain Levy, CEO, EMI Recorded Music, Founder of PolyGram
  • Warren Lieberfarb, CEO and President, Warner Home Video
  • Alfred C. Liggins III, President, CEO, Treasurer and Director, Radio One
  • Harold W. McGraw III, Chairman and CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies
  • William S. Paley, Founder, Columbia Broadcasting System
  • Manuel V. Pangilinan, President and CEO, Philippine Telephone Company
  • Sylvia M. Rhone, Chairman and CEO, Elektra Entertainment Group
  • Joseph Segel, Founder, QVC Founder, Franklin Mint
  • Gregg Spiridellis, Founder, JibJab Media Inc
  • Paul J. Vidich, CEO, Time Warner
  • Alberto Vitale, Former Chairman, President and CEO, Random House
  • Adlai W. Wertman, President and CEO, Chrysalis
  • Fred Wilson, Chairman, Thestreet.com.

Nonprofit, law and government

  • Jaime Alonso Gomez, Dean, EGADE, Tec de Monterrey (Mexico)
  • John H. Anderson, Dean, Mount Aloysius College
  • Ted Aronson, Chairman, CFA Institute
  • Ernesto P. Balladares, Former President, The Government of Panama
  • Jeffrey A. Barks, Associate Dean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jay-Michael Baslow, Associate Dean, Harvard Medical School
  • Drusilla D. Blackman, Dean, Columbia University
  • Dr. Boediono, State Minister of Indonesia
  • Frank Bostyn, Dean, University of Antwerp Management School (Belgium)
  • William Brennan, Judge, U.S. Supreme Court
  • Frank Brown, Dean, INSEAD
  • Terrence Brown, Dean, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
  • Richard Casavant, Dean, University of Tennessee
  • Robert Cort, one of the most successful Hollywood’s movie producer - fifty two movies grossing over $2B
  • David R. Decker, Dean, New York Institute of Technology
  • James DePriest, Director and Conductor, Oregon Symphony
  • L Thomas Divilio, Chairman, Memorial Hospital
  • Chaka Fattah, US Congressman
  • Edwin Feulner, President of American Heritage Foundation
  • Howard Paul Forman, Chairman, Yale University School of Medicine
  • John J. Hafer, former Maryland State Senator.
  • Alfred Irving Hallowell, President of the American Anthropological Association
  • Edward Halperin, Associate Dean, Duke University
  • James Hammond, Dean, Penn State University
  • Yung Han, Dean, Myongji University (Korea)
  • William Hancock, Dean, Cambridge College
  • Richard Hines, Dean, University of Portland
  • Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor of Utah
  • Laurent Jacque, Academic Dean, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
  • Paul Judge, Chairman of the British Royal Society of Arts, Founder of Judge Business School at Cambridge University
  • John Kendrick, Director, US Smithsonian Institute
  • William Kissick, Associate Dean, Dartmouth College
  • William K. Laidlaw, Dean, Case Western Reserve University
  • Lawrence Lessig, Founder and Director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  • Beomha Jee, Dean, The King's College
  • Neng Liang, Dean, Peking University
  • Ann D. McLaughlin, Chairman, The Aspen Institute
  • Ann Dore McLaughlin, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
  • Tamas Meszaros, Dean, Budapest University of Economic Science (Hungary)
  • Serguei Miassoedov, Dean, Moscow Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
  • Jeffrey C. Miller, Executive Associate Dean, Northwestern University
  • Robert Mittlestaedt, Dean, Arizona State University
  • Sybil Mobley, Dean, Florida A&M University
  • Allen Morton, Dean, Western Connecticut State University
  • Edward Moses, Dean, Rollins College
  • James Murdock, Associate Dean, University of Michigan
  • John W. Murphy, US Congressman, Pennsylvania
  • Daniel F. Muzyka, Dean, University of British Columbia
  • Shaath Nabil, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Palestinian Authority
  • David Nash, Associate Dean, Thomas Jefferson University
  • Vincent Perez, former Minister of Energy of Philippines
  • John Quelch, Dean, London Business School
  • Block Richard, Chief Rabbi, The Temple Tifereth (Israel)
  • Junehyuong Rhie, Dean, Inha University (Korea)
  • Manuel Roxas III, former Minister of Trade and Industry of Philippines, current Senator of the Philippines
  • David Scott, US Congressman
  • Shimon Schocken, Dean, Efi Arazi University (Israel)
  • Stanley Shapiro, Dean, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
  • Hee-Joon Song, Dean, Ewha Woman's University (Korea)
  • Steven Steinglass, Dean, Cleveland State University
  • Richard Stearns, President, World Vision
  • David Steele, Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson University
  • Joseph Thompson, President, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Rexford Tugwell, Governor of Puerto Rico
  • Anthony E. Whyte, Chairman and CEO, American Institute Management Technology
  • Gary Wilson, Canadian Senator
  • Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman and CEO, Deutsche Post AG

Real Estate

  • Donald Trump, Founder and CEO, The Trump Organization, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts
  • William Mack, Founder and President, Apollo Real Estate Advisors
  • William Fair, CEO, American Skiing Company
  • Brad Handler, Chairman and CEO, Exclusive Resorts
  • Brett Plant, Chairman and CEO, The Plant Organization
  • Laurence E. Hirsch, Chairman and CEO, Centex Corporation
  • Edward J. Lewis, Chairman and CEO, Oxford Development Company
  • William L. Mack, President and CEO, Mack Organization
  • Tadashi Nomura, President and CEO, Nomura Estate
  • Nelson W. Potter, CEO, Fleetwood Enterprises
  • Scott A. Wolstein, CEO and a Director, Developers Diversified Realty Corporation
  • Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Founder and Chairman, Boston Properties
  • Jeffrey Katz, President and CEO, Sherwood Equities, Inc.

Consulting

  • J.D. Power III, Founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates.
  • Melvyn E. Bergstein, Chairman and CEO, DiamondCluster International
  • Thomas Copland, Co-CEO, Monitor Group
  • Michael J. Donahue, CEO and COO, KPMG Consulting
  • Barry W. Huff, Chairman, Deloitte and Touche
  • Philip A. Laskawy, Chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young
  • Shaun F. O’Malley, Chairman and CEO Emeritus, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Charles Rutstein, President, Forrester Research
  • Edward L. Wax, Chairman, Saatchi and Saatchi
  • Larry Weinbach, Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Andersen Worldwide

[edit] Rankings

On December 5, 2003 Wharton enacted a policy of declining to actively participate in the rankings of business school programs,[10] citing concerns for alumni and students' privacy.[11] Some recent rankings were:

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994
Business Week (MBA/USA) 2 3 5 1 1 1 1
Business Week (Undergraduate/USA) 1 1
Financial Times (MBA/Worldwide) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
US News (MBA/USA) 3 3 2 2 2 3 4 3 2 2 2 3 3 2
US News (Undergrad/USA) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Wall Street Journal (MBA/USA) 7 6 4 1 5 18

[edit] Books on Wharton

  • Nicole Ridgway, The Running of the Bulls : Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street, Gotham, 2005.
  • Steven A. Sass, Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Press,1983.
  • Emory Richard Johnson, The Wharton school: Its fifty years, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931.

[edit] External links

Official university sites

Wharton history

Student life

Publications

Campus Links

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/00/profiles/wharton.htm
  2. ^ Business school rankings; Financial Times, 22.01.2007
  3. ^ Best Graduate Schools; U.S.News & World Report, 27.04.2006
  4. ^ Trieschmann, James S.; Dennis, Alan R.; Northcraft, Gregory B. and Niemi, Albert W. , Jr. "Serving Multiple Constituencies in Business Schools: M.B.A. Program Versus Research Performance." Academy of Management Journal, 2000, 43(6), pp. 1130-41.
  5. ^ http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?institution=3&byinst=Go
  6. ^ Business-school rankings; The Economist, 22.09.2005
  7. ^ MBA curriculum; Wharton School, 01.09.2006
  8. ^ Doctoral Program Quick Facts; Wharton School, 01.09.2006
  9. ^ Wharton Leadership Inventory; Wharton School, 01.11.2002
  10. ^ Why Harvard And Wharton Are Wrong; Business Week, 19.04.2004
  11. ^ Why Wharton and Harvard Are Missing; Business Week, 29.09.2005
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