Righting the Wrongs
Wharton’s first Black graduate.
The Future Is Coming—Fast!
In a new book, Wharton professor and “globalization guy” Mauro Guillén breaks down the key factors that will combine to radically transform the world over the next decade (and SARS-CoV-2 is only speeding things up).
Navigating Uncertainty
All-star Wharton online course focuses on pandemic ramifications.
Erika H. James Named Wharton Dean
Emory’s Erika H. James named Wharton School dean.
Wharton Dean to Leave for USC
Dean Geoffrey Garrett to leave Wharton for USC in 2020.
Analytics at Wharton Launches
$15 million for Analytics at Wharton to coordinate big data initiatives.
Amazing Scientific Finding! (Wanna Bet?)
Taking bets on research replicability pays off.
$25 Million for Entrepreneurship Center
$25 million for entrepreneurship center Tangen Hall.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Wharton on Woodland Walk
Construction under way on new Wharton building.
The Mistake Hormone
Testosterone and decision-making: speed over accuracy.
Prophet of Prosperity
Simon Patten, who led the Wharton School during the Progressive Era, was a pioneer of the economics of abundance, theorist of the second industrial revolution, and intellectual godfather of the New Deal. His descent into obscurity poses provocative questions about how the field has evolved.
Biden Coming to Penn
Biden joins Penn to lead Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
Leadership Program’s New Name, and the Complications of Compromise
$10 million gift for McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton.
Method Inventor
With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to bask in entrepreneurial mystique. Only that’s exactly what he sets out to demolish in the classroom.
Walking on a Wire
One hundred years after a Penn professor was famously fired for his political views, a campus symposium on academic freedom wrestled with a familiar question: Are universities still homes of free speech and inquiry?