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Nominee Paul M. Weissman '52, managing director emeritus of Bear Stearns & Co., is an investment banker with an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania...
...moneyed, mannered east Coast upper class that Henry James described and Edith Wharton anatomized was an aristocracy in its own eyes, and a tribe of puffed-up burghers to the older and poorer nobilities of Europe. Its pretensions were exquisite and absurd, but for the few decades that the nation's financial strength was concentrated almost solely in New York City and Boston, its members had the power to impose their measures of status on the rest of the nation...
...Harvard name, it would appear, is not enough anymore. Students at HBS want more than a pretty campus and a Harvard diploma. They want a solid education and administrators who won't take them for granted. Significantly, the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania, surged from fourth place in 1992 to first this year, due to what Business Week called the "most dramatic curriculum changes at any elite school...
That contrasts markedly with the newspaper at the top-ranked Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The editor-in-chief there acknowledged last month that he had received $1500 in secret "stipends" from his school's administration...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School surged from fourth in 1992 to number one, unseating three-time champion Kellogg School at Northwestern University with what Business Week called the "most dramatic curriculum changes at any elite school...