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New Fellows in e-Business Program Offered
Wharton will offer an innovative
new program this fall to
prepare senior business executives
to lead effectively and
comfortably in the global
e-business environment.
Wharton Senior Wins Wrestling Championship
It was two weeks after his
last wrestling season before
Brett Matter walked into the
weight room again. “That
was the toughest thing: the
first time I walked in there
without a goal,” says Matter,
who in March was a Wharton
senior and had just
become Penn’s first NCAA
wrestling champ in 58 years.
Santomero to Lead
Philadelphia Fed
Anthony M.
Santomero,
the Richard K.
Mellon Professor
of Finance, has
been named president
of the Federal
Reserve Bank
of Philadelphia.
Santomero began
his duties in
July, succeeding Edward G.
Boehne, who retired May 31.
Wharton Picked
Number One
(Again)!
For the fourth consecutive
time, Wharton’s MBA program
was named the best in
the nation by Business Week
magazine, which released its
biennial rankings just as the
Wharton Alumni Magazine
went to press.
Mark Alarie, WG’95,
From Basketball to Business to Coaching –
And Back to Business
It’s not as if Mark Alarie hadn’t had a fulfilling life.
He’d been on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1986 as his Duke
University basketball team blitzed to a 37-3 record before falling
to Louisville in the NCAA finals.
WG’77,
Sharon Fordham,
Nabisco’s Rising Star
Few would argue that Sharon
Fordham is a lifesaver.
The president of Global
e-Business for Nabisco Inc. has led
a series of key turnarounds in her
nearly 20 years with the food giant,
including resuscitating the venerable but ho-hum LifeSavers candy
line and staving off an onslaught
of competitors during the “cookie
wars” of the 1980s.
Heads of Financial
Institutions Center Named
Professors Franklin Allen and Richard Herring have been named co-directors of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, replacing former director Anthony M. Santomero, who has been named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Asian Forum Draws
Nearly 300
At Wharton’s seventh Asian
Regional Alumni Meeting,
held in Manila on June 10,
guest speaker Manuel V.
Pangilinan, WG’68, began
his remarks with a reference
to the “I Love You” virus.
M&T Freshman
is Top National
Scholar
Freshman Beeneet Kothari
applied early admission to
three schools – Wharton/
Penn, MIT and CalTech –
and got into all three. But
he says his decision to enter
Wharton and the Jerome
Fisher Program in Management
and Technology
(M&T) was easy.
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