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Wharton School to Hold Global Alumni Forum in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: May 30-31, 2008
Speakers to Include Pham Viet Muon, Vice Chairman, Office of the Government of Vietnam; Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, Former United States Trade Representative and Current Senior International Partner, WilmerHale; and Jon M. Huntsman, Founder & Chairman, Huntsman Corporation
Ho Chi Minh City and Philadelphia, Pa., May, 12, 2008 -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world’s leading business schools, will hold a Global Alumni Forum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 30-31, 2008, at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel.
Small Wonder: Solixia Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition
Grand Prize with Highly Potent Nanoparticle Breast Cancer Treatment
Top Award Goes to Patent Pending "Hot Dot” Anti-Cancer Treatment Whose Payload is Tiny But Powerful
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 2, 2008 -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced that student team Solixia, whose "Hot Dot” cancer treatment platform is the size of a small protein fragment yet 20 times more powerful in diagnosing and treating cancer than currently used radiopharmaceuticals, won the $20,000 grand prize of the 2008 Wharton Business Plan Competition, which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. The prize was awarded at the Wharton School's annual Venture Finals April 30, 2008 where student finalists received a total of $73,000 in combined cash prizes, access to capital and in-kind legal/accounting services.
The Wharton School and INSEAD Renew Alliance for Four More Years
Philadelphia, Fontainebleau, France and Singapore, April 30, 2008 -- Thomas S. Robertson, dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and J. Frank Brown, dean of INSEAD, announced the renewal of the partnership between the two schools for four more years. Launched in 2001, the alliance combines the resources of the world's leaders in management education to deliver top quality business research and education across four dedicated campuses: Wharton's U.S. campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco, and those of INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore. Through the unmatched intellectual capital of more than 400 resident faculty in the two schools, INSEAD and Wharton collaborate across many areas such as an MBA student exchange, a faculty exchange, joint research and teaching projects through the Alliance Center for Global Education and Research, PhD collaboration, co-branded executive education courses, and ongoing joint alumni initiatives.
New Study From The Wharton School and CareerBuilder.com Identifies Jobs at Risk for Offshoring, and Implications and Benefits for the U.S. Job Market
2008 Wharton Business Plan Competition
Finalists Vie for $70,000 in Prizes, VC Interest
Among Entrepreneurial Contest Contenders: Smart Sock” for Amputees; Smart Sock” for Amputees;
PHILADELPHIA, PA., April 10, 2008 — The Wharton Business Plan Competition has announced the eight finalists who will vie for $70,000 in prizes at the annual Venture Finals taking place Wednesday, April 30 at the Wharton School's Jon M. Huntsman Hall, on the University of Pennsylvania campus. The event is free and open to the public.
New Global Business/Environmental Initiative Launched
Wharton Professor Eric Orts is the founding director of the Global Environmental Leadership Initiative, a cross-disciplinary endeavor with faculty from Penn’s schools of Arts and Sciences, Design, Engineering and Applied Science, Law and Medicine. The Initiative’s first annual conference, Business and the Environment, will take place at Penn on April 15-16, 2008.
Read Penn news release on the Global Environmental Leadership Initiative
The Wharton School Launches Major Entrepreneurial Education Program for Women in Developing Countries
As Part of Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Women” Initiative, the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education Will Build Business Knowledge of Women in China, India, and Egypt
Philadelphia, PA, March 6, 2008 — The Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education today launched the “Women Entrepreneurship Education Initiative” to build the business skills of women entrepreneurs in developing countries. The program is part of the 10,000 Women initiative of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), a project with partner schools around the world that will provide business and management education to 10,000 underserved women, predominantly in developing and emerging markets.
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