Since its founding, Wharton has been known the world over as “The Finance School.” Today, the School’s alumni, students, and faculty are taking on global financial challenges and opportunities in alternative investments, fintech, impact investing, and financial inclusion. Through curricular innovation and industry thought leadership, Wharton is redesigning and redefining finance education at top business schools.
The world of finance—its practices, policies, and people—is poised more than ever to play a role in addressing the major economic challenges in global markets and individual households alike. Wharton serves as an experimental hub where students, scholars, and practitioners explore trends in technology such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and big data. Focusing on tech-based disruptions and innovations in financial services, Wharton will continue to take a proactive role in shaping the future of finance—promoting new thinking and dynamic action.
With the establishment of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance, Wharton is now one of the only business schools in the world with a dedicated research center focused on the multi-billion-dollar financial technology (FinTech) industry. The center brings together students, faculty, and industry leaders to advance the impact of information technology on financial services.
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Harris Family Alternative Investments Program
Alternative Investments
The finance curriculum at Wharton is evolving as rapidly as the pace of change in the world it studies. The fundamentals of finance have been joined in recent years by new courses in private equity, infrastructure investing, hedge funds, and shareholder activism—all of which have attracted great student enrollment. Ongoing curricular innovations in finance will bring together Wharton’s leading faculty with alumni who have played a key role in bringing alternatives to the forefront of the global financial system and world economy.
In order to offer Wharton students the most advanced curriculum on financial services, Wharton established the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program with the support of alumnus Joshua J. Harris, W’86. The program brings together students, practitioners, academics, alumni, and policymakers to explore the theory and advance the practice of investing in asset classes such as venture capital, private equity, hedge funds and more. Co-curricular activities, experiential learning, and engagement with industry leaders deepen students’ knowledge and provide critical real-world understanding.
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Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research
Alternative Investments
The mission of the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research is to promote innovative empirical and theoretical research in financial economics, spanning the financial research interests of all members of the Wharton School Finance and related Departments. The Center was founded in 1969 through a grant from Oppenheimer & Company in honor of its late partner, Rodney L. White, WG’57 and is one of the oldest financial research centers in the United States.
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Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research
Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research
The Jacobs Levy Center brings together many departments within Wharton — including Finance, Accounting, Statistics, and Operations, Information and Decisions — in pursuit of its goals. It also connects the business school with the schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science, and beyond, and connects academics and students on campus with practitioners throughout the world of finance. Wharton’s interconnected community and vast reach are uniquely able to amplify the effect of the Jacobs Levy Center.
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“Our new course content on technological disruption in finance and emerging asset classes has attracted enormous attention from students. We still have the fundamentals of finance, but these new developments in the curriculum are a big part of what Wharton students and faculty do now.”
David Musto Faculty Director, Stevens Center, Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance
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The finance curriculum at Wharton is evolving as rapidly as the pace of change in the world it studies. The fundamentals of finance have been joined in recent years by new courses in private equity, infrastructure investing, hedge funds, and shareholder activism—all of which have attracted great student enrollment. Ongoing curricular innovations in finance will bring together Wharton’s leading faculty with alumni who have played a key role in bringing alternatives to the forefront of the global financial system and world economy.
