November 2022 – Edition 15

A person in a white naval uniform and cap, speaking into a microphone, wearing a Medal of Honor around their neck. November 2022 • Edition 15 In this month’s special edition honoring Veterans Day learn about Medal of Honor recipient and Wharton Executive MBA graduate Edward Byers Jr., WG’21; hear how combat veteran Ben Crovella, WG’15, engages with Wharton veterans; and find out how Wharton supports veterans from their time as…Read More

October 2022 – Edition 14

Wharton's Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance Leads Development of Penn’s First NFT October 2022 • Edition 14 In this edition, read about Dean Erika James’s vision for Wharton; learn about a new initiative to improve the management of chronic kidney disease; and find out how Penn Medicine memorialized its scientific breakthroughs addressing COVID-19. Acknowledging Hope, Optimism, and Opportunity Dean Erika James's fall…Read More

Stephen J. Kobrin WG’62

Stephen J. Kobrin, WG’62 Professor Kobrin joined the Wharton faculty in 1987. In 1992, he was named as the Director of the Wurster Center for International Management studies and then named co-director of the Lauder Institute which succeeded it. In 2008, he launched Wharton School Press. Steve was known as an expert in International…Read More

WGES DC area luncheon

WGES DC area luncheon WGES DC area luncheon. 9/22/22 Once again six of us got together Thursday, 22 September at the Hunters Bar and Grill in Potomac for a couple of hours of food and talk. We talked mostly of events around our area, the capital of the world. I’m happy to say things…Read More

The End of the Conglomerate?

Professor Emilie Feldman Feedback Survey Tell Us How We Did The End of the Conglomerate? Led by:  Emilie Feldman, Michael L. Tarnopol Professor, Professor of Management, The Wharton School When three corporate icons—General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, and Toshiba—recently announced plans to break themselves up into pieces, it made headlines everywhere. But is this…Read More

Alexander Morisey WG’64

Picture of Alexander Morisey Alex Morisey in June of 1964 received a master’s degree in Government Administration from the Fels Institute of Local and State Government. At that time Fels was a division of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Alex decided that rather than work in the public sector, he wanted…Read More