Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton Business School as the first university in the United States of America.
The Wharton School currently has two training centers, one in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one in San Francisco, California. There is also a wide-ranging cooperation with the international business school INSEAD, which has its headquarters in Fontainebleau ( France) and Singapore.
To date, the Wharton School is considered one of the leading business schools in the world and is known for its academic and practical strengths in all subject areas. The Wharton School of Business will last for years as the best American Economic Faculty of undergraduates ( bachelor students) ranks. The University of Pennsylvania is also the only university in the Ivy League, which has a specialized business school for undergraduates. In the rankings of leading international business schools for MBA Studiengaenge the Wharton School is regularly the first place.
The Wharton School currently offers programs with the thematic focus of accounting and finance, public administration, finance, healthcare, insurance and risk management, law, business management, marketing, operations and information management, real estate, statistics, and transportation.
The curriculum includes not only the so-called undergraduate programs leading to the bachelor's degree, and programs with the completion of the Master of Business Administration (MBA ) and doctoral programs. Furthermore offered training courses for executives without an academic degree. In addition, the school offers a dual degree with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS ) and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Currently studying annually about 4,600 undergraduate students, MBA students and graduate students and about 8,000 participants in training programs for managers. There are approximately 81,000 former students worldwide in 146 countries. The tuition fees per year amount to approximately $ 50,000.
Former students and faculty
- Warren Buffett, founder of the investment firm Berkshire Hathaway and thereby richest Americans (2008)
- Donny German, founder of German advertising agency Inc.
- Paul E. Green, Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School and a leading researcher on conjoint analysis
- Jon Huntsman Sr., industrialist (founder of Huntsman Chemicals)
- Adriano B. Lucatelli, Swiss managers and entrepreneurs
- Peter Lynch, former investment fund manager of the Magellan Fund and a consultant at Fidelity Investments
- Howard Marks, founder of the investment company Oaktree
- Michael Milken, financier and investment banker
- Mark Pincus, contractor ( Zynga )
- Lewis E. Platt, former CEO of Hewlett- Packard Company and the Supervisory Board of The Boeing Company
- Henning Schulte- Noelle, German insurance manager ( CEO of Allianz AG from 1991 to 2003 )
- David Sklansky, best-selling author and poker player
- Donald Trump, real estate developer
- Klaus Zumwinkel, Former CEO of the German Post AG
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Dean's Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hauptdissident Wall Street, bestselling author of " Fooled by Randomness ", " The Black Swan " ... mathematicians for: fractal randomness, uncertainty, probability
Publications
- George S. Day and David J. Reibstein (eds. :) Wharton on dynamic competitive strategy, Econ Verlag, Dusseldorf and Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-430-17669-9 ( title of the original American edition: Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York 1994, ISBN 978-0-471-68957-7 )