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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

Ken Moelis and Julie Taffet Moelis Advance Access Program Creates New Pathways to and Financial Aid for the Wharton MBA

Philadelphia, PA, March 28, 2017 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Ken Moelis, W’80, WG’81, and Julie Taffet Moelis, W’81, have made a $10 million gift to establish the Ken Moelis and Julie Taffet Moelis Advance Access Program, a deferred admission opportunity that…Read More

Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program

Anne McNulty in white dress and red necklace

Fueled by a transformative $10 million gift, the Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program aims to shatter the theory that trailblazers are born, not made. Philadelphia, PA, January 27, 2016 — The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is delighted to announce a $10 million commitment from Anne Welsh…Read More