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Alumni Tarnopol and Platt Honored
at the 2007 Economic Summit
With 40 members of the business press in attendance, the
2007 Economic Summit held in Philadelphia April 12 and
13 was the forum for announcements honoring two alumni
who helped transform the School.
Michael L. Tarnopol
Dean’s Lecture Series
 On April 12 Merrill Lynch
Chairman and CEO
Stan O’Neal opened the
Summit with a keynote address
that inaugurated the
Michael L. Tarnopol Dean’s
Lecture Series. The series,
which brings top business
leaders to Wharton,
honors alumnus Mickey
Tarnopol, W’58, who
died in 2005. Vice chairman
of the International
Banking Division of Bear,
Stearns & Co., Tarnopol
was well known in the
Wharton community as
a long-time member of
the Board of Overseers
and the co-founder of the
Penn Club of New York,
along with his wife, Lynne, CW’60. Tarnopol received
a Distinguished Service
Award from the Wharton
Alumni Association in 1997
and the Dean’s Medal in
2003 for his work as cochair
of Campaign for
Sustained Leadership, the
most successful businessschool
campaign in history.
Lewis Platt Doctoral
Fellowship in
Business Ethics
 The April 13 Plenary
Session on Leadership and
Ethics began with a relevant
announcement: the establishment
of the Lewis
Platt Doctoral Fellowship
in Business Ethics, created
in memory of Lewis Platt, WG’66, former CEO
of the Hewlett-Packard
Company and chairman
of the Boeing Company.
Platt, who died in 2005, assisted
in the creation of the
School’s Wharton West
campus in 2001 and was
chairman of its Advisory
Board. He was also a member
of the Wharton Board
of Overseers.
The fellowship was endowed
through the joint
support of Joan Platt and the
Hewlett-Packard Company
Foundation, as well as a gifts
from the Boeing Company,
fellow alumni, and friends to
assist students in Wharton’s
PhD Program in Legal
Studies and Business Ethics
with nearly full support for
tuition and research expenditures
for the recipient.
Created in 2003, the program
is the first of its kind in
the world, built on Wharton’s
pioneering work in business
ethics. It focuses on ethical
and legal norms of conduct in
management, with students
taking core classes in ethics
and law in business, plus
courses in one additional area
of concentration.
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