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In Brief
Business Plan Competition Winners
Ring NASDAQ Closing Bell
On August 8, the grand-prize winning
team from the Wharton Business Plan
Competition (WBPC) rang the closing
bell at the NASDAQ Stock Market
in New York. It was the second year in a
row that the competition winners were
honored in this way. The SmartMotion
Technologies team of Rahul Kothari,
WG'06, Howard Katzenberg, WG'06,
Kevin Galloway, a Penn Engineering
PhD candidate, and Rodrigo Alvarez, a
Penn alumnus, were welcomed by members
of the Wharton Alumni Club of
New York and Wharton Entrepreneurial
Programs, which runs the competition.
Using the name MuscleMorph, the
team had impressed WBPC judges with
its plan to market a medical device that
matches biological muscle movement.
Global Family Alliance Partners with
Singapore Management University
for Research
The Wharton Global Family Alliance
(Wharton GFA) joined with Singapore
Management University (SMU) to develop
high-level research, thought leadership,
and a major curriculum of study
related to family business governance,
wealth management, and philanthropy.
With its previously announced partnerhips
with IESE Business School,
Instituto de la Empressa Familiar and
SDA Bocconi School of Management,
Wharton GFA now has research capabilities
on three continents—North
America, Asia, and Europe—for its
studies of family business issues. SMU
is Singapore's third university, founded
in 2000, with collaboration from
Wharton, to offer undergraduate business
education, specialized graduate
programs, and executive education in
Asia. The two institutions already conduct
joint research under the umbrella
of the Wharton-SMU Research Center.
Penn's Health Economics Exec Ed
Programs Now Part of Wharton
Executive education programs offered
by the Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics (LDI) will now reside
in Wharton Executive Education.
Until now, both Wharton Executive
Education and LDI have served clients
in the health care industry independently.
LDI, the University of
Pennsylvania's center for health services
research, health policy, and health care
management executive education, is a
long-standing formal cooperative venture
among Wharton, Penn's health care
schools, Annenberg, and the Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia. This reorganization
will formalize the collaborative
relationship by clustering the
University's health care executive education
expertise within the Wharton
Executive Education structure.
Wharton Launches Long-Term
Leadership Development Program
for Dubai World
Wharton Executive Education has begun
a three-year partnership with Dubai
World to launch the Dubai Leaders
Program, a leadership development initiative
designed to build a corps of leaders
within Dubai World. The executive
development program will bring up to
135 participants from across all of Dubai
World's corporate organizations to
Wharton over a three-year period. Dubai
World participants will attend a series of
live program sessions and immerse themselves
in action-learning projects to enhance
strategic thinking capabilities and
leadership skills.
Leading with Resilience: Coming
Back from Challenge and Adversity
Wharton hosted its 10th annual
Leadership Conference on June 13 as part
of the School's 125th anniversary celebration.
The one-day intensive conference
focused on how managers can lead with
resilience and come back from challenge
and adversity, whether in the private, public
or nonprofit sectors. Speakers included
author Jim Collins; Peter M. Dawkins,
vice chairman of Citigroup Private Bank;
Helen Greiner, cofounder and board chair
of iRobot; Sylvia M. Montero, senior vice
president, human resources at Pfizer Inc.;
and David Pottruck, C'70, WG'72,
CEO of Red Eagle Ventures.
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