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Wharton
Joins Forces
With INSEAD
MBA students may soon
take courses in Fontainebleau
France and Singapore, and
corporations will be able to
sign up for new, custom executive
education programs
offered in the U.S. and
abroad, thanks to a recently
announced alliance between
Wharton and INSEAD.
Mitchell Named to
Bush Commission
Professor Olivia Mitchell has
been appointed to President
George
W. Bush's
16-member,
bipartisan
commission
on Social Security.
The
commission,
created in
May, is
charged with
devising a plan
for workers to invest retirement
dollars in the stock
market – the most sweeping
change Social Security has
faced since its inception 66
years ago.
Infosys CEO
Speaks to
Graduates
Narayana N.R. Murthy,
co-founder, chairman and
CEO of Infosys Technologies
Limited, spoke at MBA commencement
ceremonies on
May 20. Murthy, a member
of Wharton's Asian Executive
Board, founded Infosys in
1981 with six partners and
$250. He has since built the
company into a global software
and consulting powerhouse,
providing e-strategy
consulting and solutions,
large application development
and enterprise integration services
for global corporations.
And the
Winner Is...
Biotech and software ventures
pushed aside dot-com
mania at Wharton's third
annual Business Plan Competition.
ProtoCell, a biotechnology
company that is developing
a drug discovery tool to
determine the function of
thousands of proteins, was
the grand-prize winner of
the nine-month long competition,
which culminated on
April 30. The winning team
was awarded $25,000.
New MBA
Director Named
Marguerite Bishop, assistant
professor of accounting, has
been named director of the
MBA program. In this capacity,
Bishop will have overall
responsibility for managing
the delivery and design of the
MBA program.
Faculty Lauded
for Teaching
Excellence
This spring, undergraduate
and graduate students recognized
several Wharton faculty
for their outstanding
teaching. Among the most
prestigious honors given each
year is the
The David
W. Hauck
Award for
Outstanding
Teaching,
awarded
to recipients
for
their ability
to lead,
stimulate and challenge students,
their knowledge of the
latest research in their field
and their commitment to educational
leadership.
Book Tackles
Work/Family
Dilemma
You get a voicemail from
your 13-year-old daughter
begging you to attend her
weekly lacrosse game. But
the game, of course, is at 3
in the afternoon on a Wednesday.
With deadlines on
several projects looming, you
wince at the prospect of leaving
the office so early. But
how can you say no to your
daughter's request?
For many professionals,
such work/family conflicts
are a daily, and often irreconcilable,
dilemma.
Wharton Now: The Son of a Philadelphia Cigar Maker, Professor Ed Shils
On Giving Back
Visiting Ed Shils in his
Center City Philadelphia
high-rise office, you can
tell he's a macher, which is
Yiddish for a guy of influence.
There are photos of
Shils with former astronaut
and airline exec Frank
Borman and banker Walter
Wriston and former Federal
Reserve Board chairman
Paul Volcker. There are
degrees, earned and honorary,
flanking the windows
that have a gorgeous
panorama of the Philadelphia
skyline and the
Delaware River.
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