Faculty & Research

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• Jay H. Baker Retailing Center
  Thomas S. Robertson, Director
• Behavior Change for Good Initiative
  Angela Duckworth and Katherine Milkman, Faculty Co-Directors
• Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
  Olivia S. Mitchell, Director
• Center for Leadership and Change Management
  Michael Useem, Director
• Climate Center
  Arthur van Benthem and Sarah Light, Faculty Co-Directors
• Computational Social Science Lab at Penn
  Duncan Watts, Faculty Director
• Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management
  Morris A. Cohen and Marshall L. Fisher, Co-Directors
• Harris Family Alternative Investments Program
  Burcu Esmer and Bilge Yilmaz, Faculty Co-Directors
• Impact Investing Research Lab
  Katherine Klein and Tyler Wry, Faculty Co-Directors
• Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research
  Christopher Geczy and Craig MacKinlay, Academic Directors
• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
  Rachel Werner, Executive Director
• William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management
  Nicolaj Siggelkow, Harbir Singh, and Christian Terwiesch, Faculty Co-Directors
• Opportunity Lab
  Damon J. Phillips, Faculty Director
• Penn Wharton Budget Model
  Kent Smetters, Faculty Director
• Pension Research Council
  Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director

• Political Risk & Identity Lab
  Witold (Vit) Henisz and Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez, Faculty Co-Directors
• Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research
  Itamar Drechsler and Luke Taylor, Faculty Co-Directors
• Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center
  Joseph E. Gyourko, Director
• Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance
  Itay Goldstein and David Musto, Faculty Co-Directors
• Venture Lab
  Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Wharton Accountable AI Lab
  Kevin Werbach, Faculty Lead
• Wharton Causal Data Science Lab
  Dylan Small, Faculty Lead
• Wharton Generative AI Labs
  Ethan Mollick & Lilach Mollick, Faculty Co-Directors
• Wharton Global Family Alliance
  Raphael (Raffi) Amit, Faculty Director
• Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab
  Hamsa Bastani and Marissa King, Faculty Co-Leads
• Wharton Human-AI Research
  Robert Meyer, Kartik Hosanagar, Stefano Puntoni, and Prasanna Tambe, Faculty Co-Directors
• Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation (WIFPR)
  Itay Goldstein, Faculty Director and Christina Skinner, Co-Director
• Wharton Neuroscience Initiative
  Michael Platt, Faculty Director
• Wharton People Analytics and the Center for Human Resources
  Mathew Bidwell and Peter Cappelli, Faculty Co-Directors
• Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative
  Cade Massey and Adi Wyner, Faculty Co-Directors
• Zicklin Center for Governance & Business Ethics
  William S. Laufer and Mary Hunter (Mae) McDonnell, Faculty Co-Directors