Private Equity: Fact, Fiction and What Lies in Between
What good is private equity, anyway? Critics say these investment pools make money the wrong way -- buying "target companies," slashing jobs, piling on debt and selling the remnants, which b...

Research Roundup: The ’Flip Side’ of Open Innovation, Productivity Losses from Bad Weather and Assessing the Risks of Outsourcing
Open innovation is gaining in popularity, but when should companies be concerned with protecting their own knowledge? Most people expect bad weather to negatively impact business conducted outdoors, b...

News: Muscling Its Way to Victory: MuscleMorph Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition Grand Prize with Ultra-Advanced Motor for Stimulating Damaged Muscles
PHILADELPHIA, April 26, 2006 -- Student team, MuscleMorph, whose technologically advanced motor for powering movement of damaged muscles is lighter, higher performing and more cost efficient than any ...

Reflections of a Summer Work Study
A work assignment during summer break reveals all that can be accomplished with a Wharton degree....

‘Moneyball’ for Managers: Paul Meehl’s Legacy
The concept of "Moneyball" provides lessons for employee selection and retention at large enterprises, but not as you might believe....

Sifting Through the Ashes
What the Kindle Fire and Amazon’s downbeat Q4 results teach us about customer centricity....