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WHARTON ORGANIzATIONS AND PROGRAMS<br />

Doctoral <strong>Program</strong>s<br />

Vice Dean and Director: Eric T. Bradlow<br />

400 Steinberg Hall -Dietrich Hall<br />

215 .898 .4877<br />

Wharton’s doctoral programs seek candidates with the intellectual<br />

aptitude and curiosity to enter both academic and<br />

nonacademic careers that require sophisticated scholarly ability .<br />

Each student works closely with distinguished faculty members<br />

in programs designed to meet individual research interests and<br />

professional goals . The program also prepares doctoral candidates<br />

to be effective teachers through the Wharton Teacher<br />

Development <strong>Program</strong>.<br />

Wharton offers doctoral degrees in: accounting, applied<br />

economics (business and public policy, insurance and risk management,<br />

real estate), ethics and legal studies, finance, health<br />

care management & economics, management, marketing,<br />

operations and information management & decision processes,<br />

and statistics .<br />

Enrollment 2011: 181<br />

Entering Fall 2011: 37<br />

Alumni worldwide: 1,500<br />

Executive Education<br />

Vice Dean: Jason Wingard<br />

Aresty Institute of Executive Education<br />

Steinberg Conference Center<br />

215 .898 .4560<br />

For more than 40 years, Wharton has been providing outstanding<br />

programs for executive development and training . In<br />

1987, it increased its commitment to executive education with<br />

the founding of the Aresty Institute of Executive Education<br />

and the construction of the Steinberg Conference Center . Each<br />

year more than 4,000 executives participate in Wharton’s programs,<br />

designed to meet the needs of executives at every stage<br />

of professional growth .<br />

Executive <strong>Program</strong>s vary in length from two and a half<br />

days to two weeks and focus on specific issues in management,<br />

marketing, and finance. A two-week Executive Development<br />

<strong>Program</strong> is designed for executives making the transition from<br />

functional to general management . At the senior management<br />

level, Wharton offers two limited enrollment programs: a five<br />

week Advanced Management <strong>Program</strong> and the International<br />

Forum, which meets for three four-day seminars held in North<br />

America, Europe, and Asia . Wharton also offers Customized<br />

<strong>Program</strong>s tailored to the needs of a wide range of companies and<br />

organizations: recent and on-going clients include firms such as<br />

the American Bankers Association, IBM, KPMG Peat Marwick,<br />

Pfizer, and the Securities Industry Association (since 1951) .<br />

Total 2011 Participants<br />

Executives: 9,000 (approximately)<br />

Companies: 1,500<br />

4<br />

<strong>Academic</strong> Departments<br />

• Accounting<br />

• Business Economics and Public Policy (formerly Business and<br />

Public Policy and Insurance and Risk Management Departments)<br />

• Finance<br />

• Health Care Management<br />

• Insurance and Risk Management<br />

• Legal Studies & Business Ethics<br />

• Management<br />

• Marketing<br />

• Operations and Information Management<br />

• Real Estate<br />

• Statistics<br />

RESEARCH CENTERS AND INITIATIVES<br />

• Jay H. Baker Retailing Center<br />

• Bio Science Crossroads Initiative<br />

• Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research<br />

Pension Research Council<br />

• Center for Human Resources<br />

• Council on Employee Relations<br />

• (Wharton) Center for Health Management and Economics<br />

• (Wharton) Center for Leadership and Change Management<br />

• (Wharton) Financial Institutions Center<br />

• Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations<br />

Management<br />

• (Wharton) Global Family Alliance<br />

• S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education<br />

• Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership<br />

• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics<br />

• William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological<br />

Innovation<br />

• Risk Management and Decision Processes Center<br />

• SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management<br />

• Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center<br />

• Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI)<br />

• (Wharton) Small Business Development Center<br />

• Weiss Center for International Financial Research<br />

• Wharton Faculty Research Initiatives in China<br />

• Wharton Innovation Group<br />

• Wharton’s <strong>Program</strong> for Social Impact<br />

• Wharton Sports Business Initiative<br />

• Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research<br />

• Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center<br />

SPECIALIzED PROGRAMS<br />

• Wharton Global Family Alliance<br />

• Communication <strong>Program</strong><br />

• (Wharton) Environmental Management <strong>Program</strong><br />

• (Wharton) Ethics <strong>Program</strong><br />

• Jerome H. Fisher <strong>Program</strong> in Management & Technology<br />

• Huntsman <strong>Program</strong> in International Studies & Business<br />

• Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and<br />

• International Studies (<strong>MBA</strong>/MA)<br />

• (Wharton) Management <strong>Program</strong>

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