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3 unusual facts about Wharton


Gary Mendell

A Cornell ('79) and Wharton grad, Mendell went on to co-founded HEI’s predecessor in 1985, which became one of the fastest growing hotel investment firms in the United States.

PriceSCAN

PriceSCAN.com was a US-based price comparison website, founded in 1997 by David Cost and Jeffrey Trester, alumni of the Wharton School.

Wharton, West Virginia

This fatality along with another one in a separate incident in Uneeda, also in Boone County, caused West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to call for a "stand-down on mine safety" at West Virginia's mines.


30th Virginia Sharpshooters Battalion

Wharton's brigade was again moved east, fighting at Cold Harbor before returning west with General Jubal Early's Second Corps to stop Maj. Gen. David Hunter from destroying the vital supply center at Lynchburg, Virginia.

Alex Wharton

Alex Wharton (born 1939), later also known as Alex Murray, was part of the singing duo the Most Brothers with Mickie Most, and later, co-manager and producer of the band, Moody Blues.

Aventis School of Management

On April 9, Aventis in collaboration with Zicklin School of Business hosted the Annual Public Lecture Series-Beyond The Financial Crisis: Ethics & Professional Responsibilities by Professor Larry Zicklin who endowed the Wharton's Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity (CCI) at Baruch College.

Buffalocomotive

The long distance sessions culminated in 13 previously unreleased tracks with audio mastering by Geoff Pesche and Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.

Byerley Turk

In 1696, Captain Robert Byerley married his cousin, Mary Wharton (sole heir to the estate of Goldsborough, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England) and moved to live with her at her family home of Goldsborough Hall.

Darren Wharton

Wharton also worked with Lynott on the latter's 1982 solo recording The Philip Lynott Album where he played on most of the record's eleven tracks, and provided the striking piano solo on the single "Old Town".

Earl R. Southee

Southee attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s.

Eduardo Berti

His translations from English into Spanish include “With Borges” (by Alberto Manguel), “The Sandglass” (Romesh Gunesekera), “American Notebooks, a selection” (Nathaniel Hawthorne), “Lady Susan” (Jane Austen), and also a couple of anthologies as “New York short stories” (Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Dorothy Parker, etc.).

Edward Digges

William (- 24 July 1697); he married Elizabeth Wharton, step-daughter of Lord Baltimore, and had ten children.

Edward Wharton-Tigar

Later, while still working for the SOE, Wharton-Tigar organized black-market trading in currencies, jewels and other valuables in Asia on an unprecedented scale, financing much of the Allied cause in that part of the world.

Fighting France

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, a collection of magazine articles by Edith Wharton

Folgers

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has its California campus on the top floor, where Wharton's MBA for Executives program is offered.

Frankie Wharton

Frankie Wharton is a fictional character in the TV show Waking the Dead on the BBC.

George S. Day

His most recent books are Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth (2013), Strategy from the Outside In: Profiting from customer value, (with Christine Moorman, 2010), Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals that Can Make or Break Your Company (with Paul J. H. Schoemaker) published in 2006, and Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies (with Paul J. H. Schoemaker) published in 2000.

Goldsborough Hall

Their son Robert Byerley married Elizabeth and Philip's daughter, Mary Wharton in 1695.

J. Steven Wharton

He was the previous head of the Wharton shipping complex at nearby Gunness.

James Wharton

Since Wharton has visited the country, companies such as Cleveland Bridge in Darlington have directly benefited from Sri Lankan investment: in May 2013, the renowned structural engineering company was awarded a £35 million contract from the Sri Lankan Government to produce 210 bridges for jungle and rural areas across the island country.

John Tempest, Sr.

Tempest was a member of the Old Durham branch of the Tempest family, the son of John Tempest (1679–1737)and Jane Wharton (1683–1736).

John Wharton

John F. Wharton (1894–1977), American lawyer and founding partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Keeping up with the Joneses

The phrase is also associated with another of Edith Wharton's aunts, Mary Mason Jones, who built a large mansion at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, then undeveloped.

Kirkby Stephen

There are monuments to the Musgrave and Wharton families, but the most important of several other ancient monuments in the church is a relief of the Norse god Loki, who is shown bound and chained.

Mallerstang

This uprising against King Henry VIII was put down by a military force commanded by Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, aided by Sir Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (whose seat, Wharton Hall, lies just to the north of the parish).

Marion Mainwaring

Her most recent work is Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover.

Michael Wharton

Not fictional was the column's presiding spirit, Colonel Sibthorp, an eccentric and reactionary Victorian Member of Parliament, about whom Wharton made a BBC radio documentary in 1954.

Morton Schindel

Born and raised in Orange, New Jersey, Schindel went to the University of Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1939 from the Wharton School of Finance.

Nateby, Cumbria

A little over half a mile to the south-west, Wharton Hall, Wharton is a medieval fortified manor house, partly ruined and partly in use as a farmhouse.

Paul R. Wharton High School

Paul R. Wharton High School (also known as Wharton) is a public high school located on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in New Tampa, Florida .

Wharton's attendance boundaries include several Tampa subdivisions located in the New Tampa area.

Philadelphia Pythians

Their first game was played at Diamond Cottage Park in Camden, New Jersey because they could not gain access to the Parade Grounds at 11th and Wharton in Philadelphia.

Rhinecliff, New York

The town is also the setting of the fictional book series The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar and Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton.

Robert S. Kapito

Kapito serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph H. Lookstein Ramaz School, is the recipient of 2009 Joseph Wharton Leadership Award and the 2010 Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.

Rodney Cocks

Cocks is an MBA graduate from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania school in the US, where he was awarded a Joseph Wharton Scholarship.

Sakorn Suksriwong

Dr.Suksriwong also completed several executive education including Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard University and NIDA-Wharton Executive Leadership Program from Wharton School.

Shanghai Commercial Bank

Historically, the Shanghai Commercial Bank was originally founded in Shanghai in 1915 under the leadership of Mr. K.P. Chen (1881–1976), a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance.

Skiddle

December 2012 saw Skiddle's Christmas party, attended by hundred's of members of the public and being DJ'd by artists such as Mistress, Ginny Koppenhol as well as internationally renowned DJ and son of Alex Wharton; Sonny Wharton.

The Buccaneers

A previous children's television series produced by ITC Entertainment in 1956 has no relation to the Edith Wharton novel.

The Coquette

The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster.

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth was written while Edith Wharton lived at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Theo Wharton

Wharton was first selected for the Wales Under-17 squad for 2011 Euro qualifiers where he start 2 games against Belgium and Denmark.

Thomas Capano

U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly and Delaware state prosecutor Ferris Wharton were the state's prosecutors, and William Swain Lee was the presiding judge in the highly publicized Superior Court trial.

Thomas Gerrity

Thomas P. Gerrity, former dean and professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton

Wharton and Lennox left Carlisle on the 20th, sending on Henry Wharton to burn Drumlanrig and Durisdeer.

Wharton Hall

The Wharton family preferred to use Healaugh Priory as their main house after the 16th century, and the property fell into ruined.

Wroe Alderson

He began his business career at the U.S. department of Commerce, founded the internationally prominent marketing consulting firm of Alderson Associates, and served as a professor at Wharton University of Pennsylvania after joining it in 1959.


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