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Philadelphia, PA, January 31, 2018 — Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen has been named the inaugural Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas M. Luddy, WG’76 and Janice Hotra Luddy, WG’77 generously endowed the Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professorship for faculty appointments at the…Read More Startup Challenge Semifinalist: CitySense
Team Leader: Mitch Gainer, WG’18 Team Members: Marc Giesener, WG’18 Christophe Williams, WG’18 elevator pitch: Water utilities lose $14 billion every year from leaks, faulty meters, and water theft. CitySense provides analytics services to identify and capture this lost revenue. Where did the idea for your venture come from? Before…Read More Breakthroughs in Food, News, and Loos
From a life-saving app to a food delivery service with nearly a half billion in VC backing, keep an eye on these recent ventures with Wharton roots. AlphaSense Illustrations by Cynthia Kittler It began with a conversation in a Wharton classroom about a particular problem—the endless hours financial analysts spend…Read More How WCAI Bridged Academia and Industry to Deliver Experiential Learning and Customized Analytics Solutions
WCAI ANALYTICS ACCELERATOR CHALLENGE WRAP-UP In just one month, the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative delivered experiential learning opportunities to students and customized data solutions to businesses through the pilot Analytics Accelerator Challenge. Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative’s mission has always been to bridge the gap between academia and industry. This fall,…Read More Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (EA) and its analytics team wanted an outside perspective on how to use their data on game play to improve the player experience. Partnering with the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, EA created an anonymized dataset covering three years of online game play—including more than 1.6 million individual game…Read More Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo collaborates with Wharton in ways that support our students and our shared community. Through the Wells Fargo Foundation’s longstanding support of the Wharton Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Wharton and Wells Fargo have supported hundreds of entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, with a special emphasis on minority and women-owned businesses.…Read More Prof. Cade Massey Explains the Analytics Behind His NFL Rankings/How Data Science Led This Undergrad to Business Analytics
We have always been interested in more generally understanding underlying strengths — performance evaluation, talent evaluation, these are very general challenges in the world. They are far more applicable outside of sports. The days when sports fans based their picks just on a hunch haven’t disappeared but they’re dwindling. Data-driven…Read More Successful M&A Results Start with a Solid Process
For companies looking for growth through a merger or acquisition, Wharton finance professor Robert Holthausen says don’t pay too much attention to the headlines. That press includes the 13 deals over $25 billion that were closed in 2017. “Those deals make the front page of the Wall Street Journal,” he…Read More At the Whiteboard with Chris Geczy
Is diversification dead? Not entirely, but with the democratization of Modern Portfolio Theory it’s not your father’s 60/40 world anymore. The key insight of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT): Don’t weigh an asset’s risk independently, but by how it contributes to the portfolio’s overall risk. MPT, the brainchild of economists Harry Markowitz…Read More