The Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance is an academic award dedicated to exceptional students entering their second year of the Wharton MBA program and majoring in Quantitative Finance. Harry Kong, WG’26, was chosen as one of 10 Jacobs Scholars for the 2025-2026 school year.
“One of my goals in establishing the Jacobs Scholars program and other quantitative finance programs at Wharton was to bridge the gap between theory and practice,” says Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs, G’79, GRW’86, co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management. “Harry’s experience connecting his real-world expertise to its academic underpinnings is providing him with valuable insights and preparing him for the challenges he’ll face as he advances in his career.”
In the following interview, Harry discusses his experience as a Wharton MBA candidate and Jacobs Scholar.
As you reflect on your time at Wharton, how has the experience of being named a Jacobs Scholar shaped your MBA journey?
Being named a Jacobs Scholar was a defining moment of my Wharton experience. I came to the MBA from four years in energy transition investing at Macquarie, where I was underwriting utility-scale solar, wind, storage, and renewable fuel projects. The work was deeply quantitative and fundamental — building discounted cash flow models around merchant power curves, capacity factors, tax equity structures — but I hadn’t yet connected that practitioner toolkit to the academic foundations of quantitative finance. The Jacobs Scholar designation gave me both the recognition and the intellectual community to make that connection explicit.
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Posted: June 12, 2026
