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WHARTON ALUMNI REMEMBERED<br />

The Lewis Platt Doctoral Fellowship<br />

in Business Ethics in Memory of<br />

Alumnus Lewis Platt<br />

Inaugural Michael L.Tarnopol Dean’s Lecture Series at<br />

Economic Summit<br />

EXTRAORDINARY<br />

LEADERSHIP REMEMBERED<br />

Extraordinary<br />

Leadership<br />

Remembered<br />

The Lewis Platt Doctoral Fellowship in Business Ethics was<br />

created in memory of cherished alumnus, Lewis E. Platt,<br />

WG’66, former CEO of the Hewlett-Packard Company and<br />

chairman of the Boeing Company. The<br />

fellowship was announced in April at<br />

Wharton’s Economic Summit, the largest<br />

event in the School’s 125-year history.<br />

Through the joint support of Joan<br />

Platt and the Hewlett-Packard Company<br />

Foundation, as well as a gift from the<br />

Boeing Company, and individual gifts from fellow alumni<br />

and friends, the fellowship was officially endowed and<br />

established in 2007.<br />

The fellowship will provide support for tuition and research<br />

expenditures to students in Wharton’s PhD Program in Legal<br />

Studies and Business Ethics. The Lewis Platt Doctoral<br />

Fellowship in Business Ethics was established in memory of<br />

Platt, who assisted in the creation of the School’s Wharton<br />

West campus in 2001 and was chairman of its Advisory<br />

Board. Platt was also a member of the Wharton Board of<br />

Overseers. The fellowship is a tribute to Platt’s high standard<br />

of personal and professional integrity, and commitment to<br />

creating ethical standards for business practices. Since his<br />

death in 2005, Platt’s widow, Joan Platt, has been dedicated to<br />

establishing a fund that would memorialize Platt’s life and<br />

leadership at the Wharton School and in the business<br />

community.<br />

“HP is pleased that Wharton has recognized the high<br />

standards that Lew Platt set during his prestigious career with<br />

HP,” said Bess Stephens, HP’s vice president of corporate<br />

philanthropy and education and executive director of the HP<br />

Company Foundation. “It’s our hope that through our<br />

collaboration with Wharton, the next generation of business<br />

leaders will carry forth into the global marketplace an<br />

unrivaled sense of what it means to be an ethical leader in the<br />

21st century.”<br />

What better place to hold the inaugural Michael L. Tarnopol Dean’s Lecture Series than the<br />

2007 Wharton Economic Summit. Created by Lynne L. Tarnopol, CW’60, and friends and<br />

family in memory of remarkable Wharton alumnus Michael “Mickey” L.Tarnopol, W’58, this<br />

lecture series provides a forum for the most senior leaders in business to share their insights with<br />

the Wharton community. And who better to serve as the inaugural Tarnopol Speaker than Stan<br />

O’Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co. At the head of one of<br />

the world’s leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory<br />

companies, O’Neal is one of the world’s most influential business leaders.<br />

Opening the Economic Summit, O’Neal encouraged the Wharton and<br />

business communities to invest the same attention in their social<br />

responsibilities as they do in their bottom lines, asking, “How do we ensure<br />

that the fruits of opportunity flow freely and equally to everyone” For<br />

O’Neal, one possible answer to that question involves education, which<br />

ensures that a country can not only remain competitive but also committed to free trade and<br />

globalization.<br />

Mickey Tarnopol was also a global business leader, serving as vice chairman of Bear, Stearns &<br />

Co. He played a significant role in the company’s success as a prominent U.S. securities trading,<br />

investment banking and brokerage firm. Moreover, he was an exceptional leader at Wharton and<br />

at Penn, serving on Wharton’s Board of Overseers and the University’s Board of Trustees for a<br />

number of years. As co-chair of Wharton’s Campaign for Sustained Leadership, Tarnopol helped<br />

to bring about the most successful business school campaign in history, for which he was<br />

recognized in 2003 when he received the prestigious Dean’s Medal.<br />

Although he died in 2005, Tarnopol’s legacy will be felt by future generations of Wharton<br />

students and alumni through the Dean’s Lecture Series that carries his name.<br />

ANUJ MOHAN, WG’06, INSPIRES MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP<br />

“Anuj was the type of<br />

person that we hold as<br />

an ideal,” recalls Rachna<br />

Handa, WG’07, about her<br />

classmate. Co-president<br />

of Wharton’s student-led<br />

Entrepreneurship Club,<br />

the 30-year-old Anuj Mohan, WG’07, a first-year<br />

MBA student, died in June 2006. In Mohan’s<br />

memory, his family established a fund to help<br />

exceptional students from families of limited<br />

financial means attend either Wharton or MIT,<br />

Mohan’s undergraduate institution. The<br />

scholarship aims to recognize underprivileged<br />

students focused on contributing to their<br />

communities.<br />

EXTRAORDINARY<br />

LEADERSHIP REMEMBERED<br />

68 | Report to Investors<br />

Wharton Alumni Remembered | 69

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