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unusual facts about Wharton School



Ahn Cheol-soo

Ahn holds a MSE at the University of Pennsylvania (1997) and an EMBA at the Wharton School in San Francisco campus (2008).

Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

The school was established in 1958 by Wharton School's alum Walter Annenberg as The Annenberg School of Communications.

Carlos M. García

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, García participation in a dual degree program made it possible to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Economics, majoring in Management, from the Wharton School, and a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree in Comparative Literature after completing an honors thesis on Federico García Lorca's "Sonetos del Amor Oscuro", published after the Spanish writer's death.

Geeta Menon

Menon has held appointments at leading business institutions, including the Laura and John J. Pomerantz Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School (2008-2010), Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business (2009, 2011), and Visiting Scholar at Stanford (Fall 2000) and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (Spring 2000).

Judith Rodin

She encouraged revitalization in University City and West Philadelphia through public safety; the establishment of Wharton School alliances for small businesses; the development of buildings and streetscapes that turned outward to the community; and the establishment of a university-led partnership school, the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School.

Medcan Clinic

Since 2002, Medcan's CEO has been Dr. Francis' son, Shaun Francis, whose previous endeavors included undergraduate studies at the United States Naval Academy, working as an investment banker at New York's Morgan Stanley and receiving an MBA from the Wharton School.

Mel Bridgman

After his playing career, he earned a degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Metzler Visiting Professorship

The Metzler Visiting Professorship in International Finance, founded by the German private bank Bankhaus Metzler in 1992, is an academic exchange program between the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

MMICC

Since its foundation, the competition has welcomed such schools as the London School of Economics, the Wharton School, the University of Southern California, the Copenhagen Business School, and schools from Hong Kong and Singapore.

Peter Wuffli

He is a Swiss citizen and a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (1981, doctorate 1984) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1989).

Reginald H. Jones

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a brother of Phi Sigma Kappa, Jones joined the GE's Business Training Course in 1939.

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.


see also

Earl R. Southee

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

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.

PriceSCAN

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

Thomas Gerrity

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

WisdomTree Investments

Between 2004 and 2005, the company obtained financing from a core group of investors including former hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, Professor Jeremy Siegel of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and James D Robinson IV with venture capital firm of RRE Ventures.