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...They're not going to need to go to Wharton or Stanford," he said...
Turn of the century American novelists such as Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the conflict between the Old World and the New, about how the old-fashioned denizens of Europe were supposedly corrupting their fresh, young American counterparts with deceit and superficiality. Almost 60 years later, American journalists and teenybopper magazines used the same analogy of a "British invasion" to describe Beatlemania, couching it in terms of a phenomenon which could not be repelled but which also should not be embraced unequivocally...
Gates and Roberts arrived at this intersection from different directions. Gates dropped out of Harvard and built his mammoth software firm from his innate programming skills. Roberts, a Wharton graduate and the son of a Philadelphia belt manufacturer turned cable entrepreneur, learned his business at his father's side. Ralph Roberts left the belt business in 1962, fearing that beltless trousers would render his product useless. Brian stepped into the president's shoes...
...Wharton's current ambition is an autobiography; its publication date has not yet been announced...
...plethora of directorships also have graced Wharton's career, including terms at Equitable Life Insurance Co., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations and the New York Stock Exchange. Wharton also has served as chair and trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and as a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association...