Recent Issues
- Dogging the Data: Class helps Wharton-bred PetPlan USA with policy rollout.
- Crossing Warren Buffett with Indiana Jones: Private equity in emerging markets class gives students inside look at growing field.
- Backbone of Success:NP Solutions wins Wharton Business Plan Competition Grand Prize with next generation back pain treatment
- All Star Entrepreneur: Alumnus Seth Berger scores success with basketball apparel company AND 1
- Getting the Dogs to Eat the Dog Food: Bigger firms gain entrepreneurial marketing know-how from Prof. Leonard Lodish's new book, Marketing That Works.
- Wharton Private Equity Review: Differentiation in a Hyper-competitive Market
- New Nigeria: Visitors to the Wharton Small Business Development Center come to study entrepreneurship, leave to jumpstart sub-Saharan economy.
- The Man with the Golden Spreadsheet: Prof. Andrew Metrick's new course and book bring financial tools to VC swashbuckling.
- Advice to Students: Burn a Bridge: Annual Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference teaches the ins and outs of entrepreneurship.
- A Pyramid in the Desert: A Q&A with Shopzilla's Farhad Mohit.
- Mind over Money: Wharton Prof. Gary Dushnitsky says value of corporate VC is greater with strategic, not financial, investments.
- Private Equity Is on a Roll, but Are Investors in for a Let-down?
- Quiet Competence: Behind-the-scenes Wharton Business Plan Committee forges Venture Finals, friendships.
- Problem Solvers: Seminar for PhDs helps train next wave of entrepreneurship scholars.
- Brave New World: Wharton alums, students blast into the "blogosphere".
- Building on Instinct: Wharton alumni entrepreneur David G. Marshall turns troubled properties into real estate gold.
- Cost Accounting: Wharton Prof. Gavin Cassar says opportunity cost predicts entrepreneurs' goals.
- The Social Network Benefit: Losing an Employee Doesn't Have to Mean Losing Knowledge
- Ideas that are Hotter than July: Students at the Management & Technology Summer Institute Learn by Creating Companies.
- Certifiably Entrepreneurial: WEP Teams up with Wharton Executive Education to Create New Certificate Program.
- Nourishing Businesses - and Bodies: Snider Center Helps to Spur Entrepreneurship in Africa.
- Take Your Fouls: Wharton Alumnus Josh Kopelman says Risk-Taking Requires Risk-Rewarding.
- Creativity is Bunk: Wharton Professor Karl Ulrich Says Innovation Must Have Systematic Grounding.
- Creating a Sustainable Business among South Africa's Poor 'One Bite at a Time'
- Good as Goldman: Wharton Alum Amir Goldman brings VC experience to a Business Plan class.
- Meet the VC: A public square-off between Wharton-bred entrepreneurs and seasoned venture capitalists.
- Return on Restlessness: Boston Scientific founder Peter Nicholas and his pursuit of entrepreneurial acquisitions.
- Muscling its Way to Victory: MuscleMorph wins the 2006 Wharton Business Plan Competition Grand Prize
- Bridge Over the River Why: Wharton Professor David Hsu investigates corporate creativity.
- Is There a Robot in Your Future? Helen Greiner Thinks So
- Cheaper-Better-Faster: Entrepreneurial Marketing (MKTG 781) Class Helps Students Focus on Market Realities.
- In the System: Wharton Venture Initiation Program helps student entrepreneurs plan and execute.
- A Brand Called Donny: Wharton Alum Donny Deutsch Launches Second Career in TV.
- Startup Stipend: New WEP Fellowship Supports Entrepreneurial Internships.
- Risk-Free Reward?: Wharton's Ben Campbell Finds Little Financial Downside in Startup Jobs.
- Experimental Entrepreneurship with WEP's Ian MacMillan and James Thompson: Removing the 'Tin Cup Dependencies'
- Phat Chance: Wharton Students in Management 100 - Leadership and Communication in Groups Help Doughnut Maker Jumpstart Business.
- Nothing Ventured, Nothing Learned: New Undergrad Class, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management, Explores Venture Capital Investing.
- Life of Riley: Wharton Grad, Rich Riley, Brings Entrepreneurial Adventure to Yahoo!
- Graceful Exit: Wharton-bred Entrepreneurs Ponder the Pros and Cons of Selling the Business.
- Nothing Succeeds like Success: Wharton Researcher, David Hsu, Finds Advantages for Experienced Entrepreneurs.
- How Corporate Venture Capital Investing Increases Innovation
- Jon Huntsman's Moral Compass: Life lessons for entrepreneurs from his new book.
- Entrepreneurial Game Plan: Old-style entrepreneurs counsel NFL players on post-football careers.
- Healthy Appetite: Alan Miller's hospital acquisitions propel Universal Health Services' growth.
- Easing Entrepreneurship: Wharton Small Business Development Center helps local companies.
- Confidence Quotient: Wharton study by Brian Hu finds entrepreneurial cockiness as a spur for startups.
- Women Who Leave the Corporate World Find Small Business a Friendly Place to Step Back In
- Going Solo: Wharton BPC participants choose singular path for learning.
- Heavy Lifting: Lessons learned in Innovation, Change and Entrepreneurial Management (MGMT 802) applied to revolutionary backpack.
- Catch of the Day: Piscine plan wins 2005 Wharton Business Plan Venture Finals
- Plus: Wharton BPC Great 8 Finalists
- Jet Fueled: Wharton grads Tracey Weber and Michelle Peluso jumpstart travel giant Travelocity's growth.
- Busting Loose: "MarketBusters" by Ian MacMillan helps firms formulate breakout strategic moves.
- Wharton's Dubai Forum: Change and Opportunity in the Middle East
- Legal Ramifications: Lawyer Steve Goodman prepares entrepreneurs for legal pitfalls.
- Hot Air: A classroom venture in Problem Solving, Design, and System Improvement (OPIM 651) aims to profit from others' emissions.
- Inside Job: Corporate ventures can offer entrepreneurs the best of both worlds.
- Power of the People: J.D. Power turns auto insights into famed brand.
- Cautionary Tales — Plus Encouragement — from Three Veteran Entrepreneurs
- Capital-Market Apartheid?: Prof. Andrew Metrick plumbs separate and unequal dual-class shares.
- Does Sarbanes-Oxley Hurt Shareholders and Hide Poor Management?
- Inspired by Tragedy: Wharton's VIP program fledges aspiring entrepreneurs, Samuel Reeves and Josh Koplin.
- Profits Please: Wharton class, Societal Wealth Venturing (MGMT 810), points to profit-making as a path to social progress.
- He's Got Connections: Iqbal Quadir brings mobile-phone connectivity to fellow Bangladeshis as well as entrepreneurship to his home country.
- Biotech Buddies: Wharton grads, Evan Jones and Chuck Fleischman, parlay friendship into fast-growing medical-test company.
- Cross-border Capitalism: Firms find foreign markets friendly to stock sales.
- Lenovo Chairman Liu Chuanzhi: "We Have Decided to Refocus on the PC Business"
- Get Real: Wharton class, Real Estate Entrepreneurship (MGMT 848), instructs future apprentices in Trump's trade.
- Boxed In: Student box makers learn the naked truth about entrepreneurship.
- The Candle King: Bob Goergen has made a career out of prudent risk-taking.
- Sweet Salvation: Wharton undergrads in Management 100 introduce machinery-maker to the delectable chocolate market.
- Venture vs. Vulture: Prof. Gary Dushnitsky ponders the paradox of corporate venture capital.
- Does Success in Tech Ventures Follow froom Better R&D? Think Again
- Workshop Workouts: Wharton Business Plan Competition workshops help participants broaden and hone their skills.
- Lawyered Up: Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship (MGMT 813) gives students a solid footing for plotting strategy and choosing legal counsel.
- Brainy Winners: Wharton Business Plan Competition Grand Prize goes to InfraScan and its handheld brain trauma detector
- From Pong to Private Equity: A Q&A with Wharton alum Jim Furnivall, a VC who has witnessed the modern age of technology investing first-hand.
- Iron Will Behind the Iron Curtain: Wharton alum Anne Kalin's uncanny success in Poland is a model for entrepreneurs in emerging markets
- Launching into I-Space: Wharton researchers Ian MacMillan and Max Boisot have developed a simulation model of the structure of knowledge in information space or "I-Space."
- What do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?
- Heart and Sole: Designer Kenneth Cole tells Wharton students that the best idea is "almost always the most creative one."
- A Candid Q&A with Mr. Cole
- Compete or Cooperate?: Prof. David Hsu's research shows that cooperation with big rivals is just as viable a strategy as competition for start-ups.
- Acquiring Knowledge, Acquiring Companies: "Entrepreneurship through Acquisition" guides students through the tricky world of buying firms.
- Setting the Foundation: Freshman campus arrivals inspire undergrads taking Entrepreneurship (MGMT 230) - to create a plan for a new business.
- Never Satisfied: Staples Founder Tom Stemberg keeps trying to reinvent retailing.
- Brand Equity for Private Equity: David Rubenstein, a co-founder of a top-flight private-equity firm, says industry must do a better job with branding.
- Profiting from Pregnancy: Mothers Work founder Rebecca Matthias saw a business where others saw ill-fitting clothes.
- Blossoming Relationship: The Wharton Small Business Development Center matches local florist with student consultant to yield a bouquet of new marketing ideas.
- A Meeting Across the Pond: New internship exposes Wharton students to venture-capital business and strives to stem Philadelphia brain drain.
- Drinking in Knowledge: Wharton professor Lori Rosenkopf says small Silicon Valley firms find informal ways - and places - to acquire know-how.
- Does Sun, Burned by Competition, Need a New Business Model?
- Venturing Forth: A new Executive Education course, Business Building, is teaching the value of intelligent innovation.
- Working out without breaking a sweat: The Wharton Private Equity Boot Camp brings together Wharton students, alums and professors for two tough days.
- Connecting 24/7: Alex Chan, a Wharton West graduate, has four patent applications under his belt, but finds people are the key.
- Minty Fresh: The Entrepreneur in Residence program returns with John Osher, who sold SpinBrush toothbrush to P&G for $475 million.
- Doing Bobby Fischer One Better: Business strategists must play their games on multiple boards
- In Search of Serendipity : Bridging the gap that separates technologies and new markets.
- Lawyer and physicist find common ground through mentoring: A lawyer, Richard Silfen, mentored a team of Wharton students, his advice helped make them runners-up in 2002's Wharton Business Plan Competition.
- Price Fellow Fueled by Passion, Vegetables: Vikrant Vora aims to start a fast-casual chain to take vegetarian delicacies to American diners.
- Wharton Business Plan Competition Venture Fair Winner Eschews High Tech: A pet insurance company, Pet Plan, wins this year's Wharton Business Plan Competition Venture Fair, with a biotechnology firm in second, and an electronics firm, third.
- Building Entrepreneurial Businesses: The 2002 Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference, six experienced entrepreneurs answered questions about how they built their businesses.
- Venture-capital syndication pays off � and not just for the venture capitalist
- Newer Web Companies Aim to Change Consumer Buying Habits
- Custom Builder Has Designs on Future: A profile on Bill Marsh, one winner from the 2003 Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Fellowship Award
- Powers of Concentration: Wharton's Undergraduate Entrepreneurs
- Between a Rocket and a Hard Place: Wharton alumni entrepreneurs and venture capitalists convened to discuss opportunities within the limits of tight capital.
- Flying High: David Neeleman, founder and CEO of JetBlue Airways, attributes his company's success to three simple principles.
- Islands of Opportunity: Students from Harvard, Wharton visit Jamaica
- The Vanishing $7 Billion: An Options Approach to Corporate R&D
- 2002 Philadelphia 100 Find High Growth in Downturn
- Consulting to Growth Businesses: When Wharton undergraduates Alan Cook and Will Spearing teamed up to work on their first consulting engagement in Wharton's Consulting to Growth Businesses (MGMT 251) in the mid 1990s, they had no idea where the project would lead.
- Opening the Doors to Private Equity: Private Equity and Venture Capital Management(MGMT 804) and the private equity "boot camp" help students break into the "apprenticeship business" of private equity.
- Wharton West: Back to School
- Q&A with The Newly Appointed Director of the Wharton SBDC, M. Therese Flaherty
- Ask the Wharton Experts - alumni and faculty answer students' questions.
- Inside the "War Room" and the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center
- Tracking Digital Transformation: Prof. Raffi Amit has his eye on the future of e-business.
- Between the Idea and Reality: In seven months, Janardhan Narayanan turned his idea into a viable business - with a little help from a Wharton's Venture Initiation Program.
- Seeking Greatness: Eight finalists have 20 minutes each to present their business at the Wharton Business Plan Competition Venture Fair. Only one will win the $25,000 grand prize.
- Fourteen Students, Dozens of Questions, One Entrepreneur: Entrepreneur in Residence Farid Naib demystifies entrepreneurship for campus entrepreneurs.
- Emerging Growth: Wharton Professor Ian MacMillan, is helping to lead the Wharton Global Clinic, a new Wharton initiative providing advice to growing firms in China - and learning from them about what works.
- From All Corners of Campus: Ideas for new businesses are not limited to students in business school. Wharton's "Business Plan Creation and Implementation" course is one of the few Wharton courses open to non-Wharton students.
- Entrepreneurial Training Camp: A group of young entrepreneurs at Wharton were flexing their business plans for a very different type of competition.
- Which Fast-Growing Private Company Is #1?: At the Philadelphia 100 Conference the top 100 fastest growing private firms were announced before hundreds of peer small businesses.
- Faces of Wharton Entrepreneurship: Profiles of six great entrepreneurial alum.
- Visiting Scholar Claus Rerup to Business Leaders: Consider "Learning From Near Misses"
- Verbatim: Our Directors, in Quotes - Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs faculty are quoted by the media for expert commentary.
Spring, 2002 Premiere Issue
