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Wharton's faculty members generate the intellectual innovations that fuel business growth around the world. Actively engaged with the leading global companies, governments, and non-profit organizations, they represent the world's most comprehensive source of business knowledge.

Innovation
Wharton was the first collegiate business school in 1881, and that spirit of innovation still drives us today. Our professors create the new ideas that transform business and public policy around the world, and they bring that cutting-edge knowledge into the classroom, so that Wharton students and visiting executives can take the lead in innovating the new ideas of the future.

Breadth and Depth
With the largest, most published, most cited business school faculty, Wharton offers research and courses in virtually every area of global business. Our professors' wide range of expertise enables in-depth knowledge of both core business fundamentals and specialized, cutting-edge research topics.

Engagement

"Professors here don't walk in lockstep. They are individuals. Wharton hires the brightest people and gives them the freedom to do what they want to … and what they are best at. Every day, there is some kind of academic or intellectual event where people are presenting information I haven't seen anywhere else. Wharton is an intellectual smorgasbord so large that it's impossible to sample everything." Thomas Donaldson, Professor of Legal Studies

Wharton's professors work with businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world, including most of the Fortune 500 companies. Our engagement with real-world business practice helps us bridge the gaps between theory and practice, situating new knowledge in its real-world, real-time contexts.

Impact
The work of Wharton faculty and students reaches across the world, through publications, conferences, and online media. Knowledge@Wharton provides online, worldwide access to Wharton's cutting-edge research and influential ideas, with more than 1 million subscribers in 189 countries, in English, Spanish, Chinese, Indian, and Portuguese editions. Wharton School Publishing brings books by the world's foremost business thinkers to a global business audience.

Global Network
Wharton's global engagement extends from our Philadelphia campus at the University of Pennsylvania, to our Wharton West campus in San Francisco, to our alliance with INSEAD in Singapore and France. More than 30% of Wharton's faculty were born outside the US, and our professors teach and research around the world, through their collaborations with colleagues in over 40 countries and ongoing partnerships with universities in Singapore, China, India, and Israel.

Research Resources
Real-world research requires access to real-world data. Wharton's cutting-edge research resources include Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a high-level database tool now licensed to more than 220 Academic and research institution worldwide; and the state-of-the-art Alfred West Jr. Learning Lab, which brings research innovations into the classroom, with interactive, technology-enhanced learning tools designed to engage students directly in real-world situations.

Related Links
To view research by faculty, read Knowledge@Wharton , search our faculty profiles, or visit one of our research centers. To learn more about partnering with Wharton faculty on research, visit the Wharton Partnership Program.