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100+ Years of Business History at WhartonManagement Professor Daniel Raff takes us through 100+ years of business history throughout the Wharton era. Read More >Wharton – A Century of InnovationRead about Wharton's innovations in different industries and sectors throughout its first hundred years. Read More >PAST LEADERSBiographies of Wharton's key leaders since our founding by industrialist/philanthropist Joseph Wharton in 1881. Read More > |
In 1881, American entrepreneur and industrialist Joseph Wharton had the most radical idea in the history of business: the establishment of the world’s first collegiate school of business at the University of Pennsylvania. No other single idea – and no single institution – has had such a dramatic, transformational effect on the way business is conducted in the global market. It all started right here. First. |
