- Peter Fader
Peter Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of academia he is perhaps best known for his expert witness testimony at the Napster trial. His work predicting electronic markets has been featured in publications such as Fast Company. He is also responsible for CoolNumbers.com.
- Joseph Wharton
Joseph Wharton was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist, who was involved in mining, manufacturing, and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College.
- Jeremy Rifkin
Author, activist, and philosopher Jeremy Rifkin has become one of America's leading social critics. He is the author of fourteen books on the impact of technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and are used in hundreds of colleges and graduate schools around the world.
- Patrick T. Harker
Patrick T. Harker is the President of the University of Delaware. On December 1, 2006, it was announced that Harker had been elected as the 26th President of the University of Delaware and would take office on July 1, 2007. Howard E. Cosgrove, chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, said, "Patrick T. Harker has an excellent combination of experience and skills to lead the University of Delaware forward." Previously, …
- Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972. Robert Shiller has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980.
- George W. Taylor
George W. Taylor (July 10, 1901 - December 15, 1972) was a notable professor of industrial relations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is credited with founding the academic field of study known as industrial relations. He served in several capacities in the federal government, most notably as a mediator and arbitrator. During his career, Taylor settled more than 2,000 strikes.
- Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is a Wall Street stock investor. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments and his likeness is the primary marketing tool of the company. Lynch graduated from Boston College and studied finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Anil Ambani
Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian businessman. As of March 2007, he has a net-worth of US$ 18.2 billion, making him the 18th richest person in the world. His was the world's fastest-growing multi-billion-dollar fortune in percentage terms as his wealth tripled in 1 year. Ambani is chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Communications and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy, …
- Russell L. Ackoff
Russell Lincoln Ackoff (born 12 February, 1919) is a Professor Emeritus of the Wharton School in operations research and systems theory. In 1957, his book "Introduction to Operations Research", co-authored with C. West Churchman and Leonard Arnoff, appeared as a pioneering text that helped define the field. Dr. Ackoff also has been referred to as the dean of the systems thinking community.
- Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company.
- J. Michael Steele
J. Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University and Princeton University. Steele defined the concept of shattering related to mathematics and statistics. His current interests gambling, martingale, and mathematical finance.
- Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist. Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1980.
- Robert B. Goergen
Robert B. Goergen is an American corporate executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc. He is also the founder and chairman of The Ropart Group, a private-equity investment firm. Goergen earned a bachelors degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1960. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career at Procter & Gamble before moving onto other firms, …
- John Lott
John R. Lott Jr., Ph.D. (born May 8 1958) is a Dean's Visiting Professor at SUNY Binghamton and has held research positions at numerous institutions, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his research interests include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, …
- R. Edward Freeman
R. Edward Freeman (born December 18, 1951) is an American philosopher and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota and the Wharton School. Freeman is particularly known for his work on stakeholder theory and on business ethics.
- Martin Lipton
Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a major law firm in the United States. He specializes in advising major corporations on mergers and acquisitions. Lipton and his firm are generally credited with having invented the poison pill, a common takeover defense used by public companies in the US to delay and deter hostile tender offers and other unsolicited acquisitions. Lipton, together with Sullivan & Cromwell's George Kern and Skadden, Arps, …
- Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone (born 1956) is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who helped bring dozens of companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $160 million a year during his peak at the firm.
- Elizabeth Bailey
Elizabeth E. Bailey (born 1938) has been Director of Altria since 1989, and is John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bailey joined Altria in July 1991, having served from July 1990 to June 1991 as a professor of industrial administration at Carnegie Mellon University and as a visiting scholar at the Yale School of Organization and Management.
- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Simon Kuznets
Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 - July 8, 1985) was an American economist at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development".
- Yotaro Kobayashi
Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is chairman of the Fuji Xerox company of Tokyo, Japan. He is also Pacific Asia chairman of the Trilateral Commission. He was educated at Keio University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1956 and 1958 respectively. His father, Setsutaro Kobayashi, was the first president of the Fuji Xerox company. He was Chair of the Board of the International University of Japan, …
- Gary L. Wilson
Gary L. Wilson is an American businessman. He currently is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, including Northwest Airlines (chairman), Yahoo!, and CB Richard Ellis. He is on the advisory board of NeoSpire. He served on the board of The Walt Disney Company from 1985 until his resignation on July 31 of 2006. Gary L. Wilson received his B.A from Duke University and MBA degree from Wharton School.
- Nelson Peltz
Nelson Peltz is the CEO of Triarc Cos. and a billionaire. Nelson Peltz is the former owner of Snapple. Through Triarc, he also owns the Arby's fast food chain, as well as TJ Cinnamon and Pasta Connection. He dropped out of college in the 1960s to work in the family food business selling frozen and fresh produce to New York restaurants. He resides in Mt. Kisco, New York.
- Peter Wuffli
Dr Peter A. Wuffli (born 26 October 1957 in Zurich) was appointed President of the Group Executive Board of UBS AG in December 2001 and Group Chief Executive Officer in September 2003. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of UBS Asset Management and, before that, UBS Group Chief Financial Officer. From 1994 to 1998, he was the Chief Financial Officer at SBC and a member of SBC's Group Executive Board in Basel.
- Vernon Hill
Vernon Hill II (born "circa" 1946) is the former chairman and founder of Commerce Bancorp and Commerce Bank of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Hill also owns several Burger King franchises and is a partner in Interstate Commercial, formerly Site Development Inc. and several other holding and development enterprises. He earned his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
- Glen L. Urban
Glen L. Urban has been a member of the MIT Sloan School of Management faculty since 1966 and Dean at the school from 1993 to 1998. Dr. Urban is a leading educator, prize-winning researcher specializing in marketing and new product development, entrepreneur, and author. Dr. Urban is author of the ground-breaking work "Don't Just Relate - Advocate!: A Blueprint for Profit in the Era of Customer Power," Wharton School Publishing, …
- Robert Morgan
Robert K. Morgan (July 31 1918 - May 15 2004) was a United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" during World War II. Morgan attended the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and entered the Army Air Corps in 1940. He won his pilot wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant December 12, 1941, then after advanced training at Walla Walla, Washington, …
- Rick Yune
Rick Yune (born August 22, 1971, in Washington, D.C., USA) is a Korean American actor, and the older brother of actor Karl Yune. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1994. He had been romantically linked to Lisa Ling. He appeared in "Snow Falling on Cedars", " The Fast and the Furious", and the James Bond movie "Die Another Day". Yune qualified for the Olympic Trials in Tae Kwon Do when he was 19.
- C. Robert Henrikson
Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson (born c. 1947), is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006. He is actively involved as a thought leader in the industry, and has testified at a number of congressional hearings on retirement, pension and employee benefits matters. Henrikson is a board member of the American Council of Life Insurers, …
- Mar Roxas
Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II (born May 13, 1957) is a senator of the Philippines. He is the grandson of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas, and the son of former Senator Gerry Roxas. Roxas was born in Quezon City in Metro Manila. He attended Ateneo de Manila University for elementary and high school education, then earned a degree in economics from Wharton School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
- Stacy Blackman
Stacy Sukov Blackman, born in 1971, has been consulting on the Master of Business Administration degree application process since 2001. She has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Stacy has worked with the admissions committees at both schools, conducting alumni interviews and evaluating applicants.
- David Sklansky
David Sklansky (born 1947, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a professional poker player and author. Sklansky is generally considered a top authority on gambling. He has written many books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling. His book, the "Theory of Poker", is considered to be a quintessential poker primer. Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles, and $1000 Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1000 Limit Omaha Hi).
- Jon Huntsman Jr.
Jon Huntsman , Sr., W�59, was profiled in an article about the most influential people in Utah. The article focused on Huntsman�s incredible philanthropy, noting that Time magazine listed him as the sixth-largest philanthropist in the United States. Huntsman also chairs Wharton�s Board of Overseers, in addition to serving as chairman of International Services for the American Red Cross. ( Deseret News, 5/15/01 )
- Mark Canepa
Mark Canepa is the president and chief executive officer of Extreme Networks A . Prior to joining Extreme Networks, Canepa was with Sun Microsystems and served as executive vice president of the Network Storage Products Group. Before that, he served in multiple vice president and general manager roles at Sun, after joining the company in 1996.
- Peter Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele. Nicholas earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1964 and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. In 2005 he was ranked #78 by "Forbes magazine"'s list of "The 400 Richest Americans". Born to Greek-American parents, he met scientist Abele at a kids' soccer game in 1979.
- Gerard Kleisterlee
Gerard Kleisterlee is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Philips and Chairman of the Board of Management and the Group Management Committee, and also has a cool name XP. He was born in Germany in 1946 to a Dutch & German couple and was raised in the Netherlands. Nonetheless he accepted an Honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2005. He studied at Eindhoven University of Technology and became an electronic engineer, …
- Steven A. Cohen
Steven A. Cohen (born circa 1956), a self-made billionaire hedge fund investor, is the founder and manager of SAC Capital Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund. Cohen lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife and five of his children.. Cohen grew up in Great Neck, New York, and he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After Wharton, Cohen got a Wall Street job as a junior trader in the options arbitrage department at Gruntal & Co.
- Manuel V. Pangilinan
Manuel V. Pangilinan Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Age 60, born in the Philippines. Mr. Pangilinan received a BA from Ateneo de Manila University and an MBA from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School before working in the Philippines and Hong Kong for the PHINMA Group, Bancom International Limited and American Express Bank.
- Charles Butt
Charles Butt (born about 1940) is a third-generation U.S. grocer who took over his family's San Antonio-based H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971. The privately held company now more than 300 stores and $11 billion in sales. Butt graduated from University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with a Bachelor of Arts / Science. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
- Barbara Thomas
The Hon. Barbara Thomas (Lady Judge) (born 28 December 1946) is Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and of the Governing Body of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Born Barbara S. Thomas, she was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Arts) and New York University School of Law (Juris Doctor "cum laude", coming second in a class of 324 candidates and winning nineteen prizes).