Previous VIP Tim Lacey, founder and CEO of Ultimate Rugby Sevens, a multimedia and promotional platform for the sport worldwide, was recently quoted in an article discussing the resurgence of rugby sevens and the announcement of a new professional league established by Ultimate Rugby Sevens. MORE

Milo.com, a website that helps people shop locally, recently received 4MM from some big name investors, including that of True Ventures and other well-known Silicon Valley angel investors. Co-founded by Wharton graduate and VIP Jack Abraham, Milo.com went live one year ago. MORE

Tony Wang, Wharton undergraduate with finance, OPIM and entrepreneurship clusters, is profiled for his unique fashion ventures: a successful fashion blog and a clothing line. MORE

Professor Raffi Amit is quoted in the Wall Street Journal today in an article discussing Ferrero SpA’s bid for Cadbury PLC.  The Wharton Global Family Alliance is mentioned by name. MORE

Featured in the Philadelphia City Paper, VIP company Coup de Taco, a new food truck, has received praise for offering foods around the world in the simple form of a taco. MORE

The recently inaugurated Wharton Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Business Research, and new partnership between the Higher Colleges of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, will support enhanced learning about entrepreneurship, innovation and family business in the Gulf and the Middle East. MORE



Wharton is included in an article entitled, “With Jobs Scant, MBAs Consider Startups” which highlights the Wharton Venture Award. Adam Erlebacher, who was  member of  the Wharton Venture Initiation Program with his company PlaceVine, is profiled too. MORE

Gulf News recently featured Professor Raffi Amit and overviewed the Wharton Business Plan Competition in an article describing UAE’s Festival of Thinkers and Abu Dhabi’s investment in learning. MORE

Stephen Sammut, lecturer and senior fellow, discusses the business implications of health reform with on WHYY’s Health & Science radio channel. Sammut says that change could tip the scale in favor of becoming an entrepreneur. MORE

In a Wall Street Journal article on how small businesses are affected by the current political uncertainty, Wharton management professor Raffi Amit is featured for his comments on the pending overhaul of banking regulations, among other uncertainties. MORE

Past VIP member DocASAP recently appeared in Business Week Small Biz’s cover story this month.  CEO Puneet Maheshwari is interviewed along with alum and WEP board member Josh Kopelman.  Also mentioned are insights from Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities, by Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich. MORE

The Wall Street Journal highlights Wharton Global Family Alliance single family office research of last year in an article about proposed SFO regulation. MORE

Today the DP features the Wharton Field Challenge which introduced the business building simulation Johnny Money, for which Prof. Ian MacMillan and the Societal Wealth Program contributed, to West Philadelphia High School students.  Along with Prof. MacMillan, Field Challenge faculty advisor Prof Keith Weigelt is interviewed, as is a Wharton junior involved in the WFC. MORE

Wharton’s Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Program was named as one of the elite programs that continue “teaching students by enlisting those who have gone before in the business world” by a recent article featured on bNET. MORE

BusinessWeek named their 2009 finalists for the Top 25 U.S. Entrepreneurs Under 25 and among the top was VIP alumni company Invite Media, an online advertising buying platform. With $2.5 million in venture capital from First Round Capital and Genacast, and close to landing an additional $6 million from a Sand Hill Road firm, Invite Media expects to turn profitable by the first quarter of 2010. MORE

In an article discussing the possibility of making finance fun via online simulations,  Wharton assistant professor of management Ethan Mollick is quoted on the benefits of first-hand experience found in finance simulations and games. MORE

A New York Times article on recent trends promoting entrepreneurship among US youths mentions “Johnny Money,” a simulation game developed with the help of WEP’s Wharton Societal Wealth Program. Co-Director Professor Ian MacMillan is also quoted. MORE

In a Daily Pennsylvanian article discussing alternative employment after graduation, such as launching a company or working for a family business, Wharton and College alum Amit Friedlander is featured for his experience working for family business MoveRight Consulting. MORE

Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation article “Values in family-owned business” featured a ground-breaking study of Single Family Offices conducted by Raphael Amit and Todd Milay, from Wharton, and Heinrich Leichtenstein and M. Julia Prats of IESE Business School. MORE

In a Wall Street Journal article discussing the cons of government stimulus, Raphael Amit, professor of entrepreneurship at Wharton, gives advice to businesses dealing with stimulus projects. MORE

For the third year in a row, The Wall Street Journal has listed the top small workplaces of the year. Professor Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at Wharton, was one of the eight judges that weighed in. MORE

Startup Mint.com, recently purchased by Intuit, owes much to alumni company First Round Capital. Named by BusinessWeek as a “new breed of high-risk, early-stage venture capitalist”, First Round Capital opted to back the fledgling company at a time when other VCs demurred. MORE

Philadelphia Business Journal featured the University City Science Center for it’s business incubators, which have an annual economic impact in the Philadelphia area of $9 billion. UPenn, with a 40% stake, is the largest shareholder of the nonprofit center. MORE

Wharton Small Business Development Center, along with BioAdvance and the University City Science Center, are featured for their announced plans of creating a program called Career GPS, designed to help displaced biopharmaceutical professionals navigate the job market in the region’s life science community. MORE

Tal Raviv, VIP member and founder of DropCard, is featured in an article highlighting entrepreneurs still in college. He is further quoted throughout the article about his entrepreneurship journey and about DropCard, an e-business card that lets users send more contact information than is commonly found on a business card. MORE

In an article focusing on MBA students working as consultants, Wharton’s SBDC, at which requests for student services are at record levels, is highlighted. Therese Flaherty, program director, is also featured. MORE

Tushar Aggarwal, current Wharton MBA student, is featured in an article discussing the pros and cons of managing a business and pursuing an education at the same time. MORE

Wharton MBA graduate Jose Villa, CEO of full-service advertising agency Sensis, is ranked no. 368 in Inc.com’s top 500 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Sensis also ranks among the top 10 Latino and Hispanic-run companies. MORE

U.S.1, Princeton’s Business & Entertainment Newspaper, has highlighted the healthy typing practive MoveRight Consulting co-founded by Wharton alum Amit Friedlander. MORE

Whartpn PhD alum Scott Shane is a contributor to new NYTimes blog, “You’re the Boss: The Art of Running a Small Business.” Today, the blog featured Rita McGrath, another Wharton PhD alum, on the topic of small business health care. MORE

In an article discussing the pros and cons of moving a business home to save rent. Comments by Eric Siegal, Wharton School lecturer and small business consultant, are featured. MORE

Wharton professor and chair of Operations and Information Management Karl Ulrich was quoted about the conventional view of innovation. MORE

BusinessWeek picked the top 20 great summer reads for innovation and design related literature, of which Innovation Tournaments, by Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich, was chosen. MORE

Sandy Khaund, Wharton graduate and entrepreneur, relates his experience with the problems of health care today in an article supporting the arguement that universal health care could boost the economy. MORE 

In a recent article discussing Brazil’s potential as venture capital’s next hotbed, MBA alum Marcus Regueira, a founding partner of Brazilian VC film FIR Capital Partners, was quoted about the launch of a $170 million fund. MORE

Khaleej Times, among other news outlets, have featured an article covering the Wharton-CERT agreement. MORE

The Wharton SBDC is included in a CNN.com article on how students help businesses as consultants. Leslie Mitts is interviewed and a photo of Eric Bradlow is featured. MORE

The Wharton SBDC is featured and director Therese Flaherty is interviewed in an article focused on the challenges of raising start up funding.  The story highlights the “First Steps” course and a local company that has benefited from the Wharton SBDC’s resources. MORE

Jay Shechtman, an incoming Wharton Freshman from Florida, was named 2009 “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” by the National Federation of Independent Business and Visa Inc. for his student tutoring service You Ask, We Tutor! MORE

CNN.com features Wharton Small Business Development Center in piece about students consulting to businesses, mentioning that it is “ranked by the Financial Times as having the world’s joint best MBA program.” MORE

An article entitled “The business of going solo” highlights Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs’ activities for students pursuing entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional banking positions.  Della Bradshaw, business education editor for the FT, interviewed managing director, Emily Cieri for information on WEP’s internship programs.  The article also promotes Wednesday’s online Q&A session with MBA career management director, Michelle Antonio. MORE

Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich discuss how companies can cultivate and select new business opportunities by creating or participating in competitions for ideas. MORE

FIND MBA, a business school portal, interviewed WEP managing director Emily Cieri for both an overview of entrepreneurship programs and in a Q&A interview.  MORE MORE

The Wharton Business Plan Competition is featured in the New York Times online today. Wharton is the first competition mentioned and grand prize winner NIR Diagnostics garners the last four paragraphs of the article.  MORE

Founded by alumni Brian Lipstein and Alex Avendano, the custom-fit suit tailoring and image consulting company, Henry A. Davidsen, Master Tailors and Image Consultants, is featured in Amtrak Arrive Magazine (pg. 20). MORE

Alumni venture capital firm First Round Capital was featured in a BusinessWeek article discussing “super angels” and seed-stage investing and is described as having become the country’s most active seed-stage investor. MORE

An article discussing recession-proof industries featured quotes from management consultant and Wharton entrepreneurship lecturer Lawrence Gelburd. MORE

NIR Diagnostics, one of five health care/medical semi-finalists featured, is said to have strong health care pull. MORE

Philadelphia Business Journal tech blog covered the Venture Finals winner in a brief mention followed by a broader story with interviews of grand prize winning team NIR Diagnostics.  The article notes that NIR is not only a cross-campus but a multi-campus collaboration, stating the team “…is a good example of what bright, young entrepreneurs can reap from the area’s universities and the technology they develop. “ MORE MORE

NIR Diagnostics, winner of the Wharton Business Plan Competition Michelson grand prize, discusses the development of their device InfraVue. MORE

NIR Diagnostics, one of eight competing groups during the Venture Finals of the Wharton Business Plan Competition, came away with the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award as TechnicallyPhilly gives a play-by-play account. MORE

Wharton Alumni couple discuss the changes they were forced to make to manage growth for their company Petplan Pet Insurance, an insurance company that insures tens of thousands of pets across the country. MORE

The Philadelphia Inquirer highlights Wharton VIP Stealth Rowing. Along with Stealth Rowing’s PennVention win, the article notes founder Daniel Harbuck won a Wharton Venture Award last year and is among the Great Eight Wharton Business Plan Competition finalists. MORE

The Daily Pennsylvanian features WEP’s efforts to connect Wharton undergrads with growth firms seeking talented interns. Emily Cieri and 2008 Entrepreneurial Intern Fellow Matt Owens are quoted. MORE

StealthRowing, a VIP company that designs and makes specialized training equipment that allows rowers to get the effect of rowing on the water while training indoors, took the top prize at PennVention, winning $5,000. MORE

Alex Mittal, founder of Innova Materials, and Felipe Vergara, co-founder of Lumni, were both named among America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. MORE

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An article focused on UK business schools mentions that “In America, Stanford, Wharton and Harvard are leaders in the field.” MORE

The Aresty Institute of Executive Education program, delivered through collaboration with the American University in Cairo, is part of the Goldman Sachs ‘10,000 Women’ Initiative. MORE

Wharton Business Plan Competition grand prize winner, Dr. Baruch Ben Dor, discusses actress Natasha Richardson’s death and future brain trauma detection. MORE

Wharton and VIP alum Christopher Stanchak, founder of TicketLeap, Inc. was named amongst the top 40 Under 40 of the region’s most accomplished young professionals. MORE