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...School officials note that the MBA program, even after the changes, will remain the most demanding in the nation. The RCS study states that the average work hours of students--about 55 hours per week--compares to an average of 48 at Stanford and 40 at the Wharton School of Business. Total class hours over the two year program will be 515 hours at the B-School, compared to an average of 400 hours at nine other schools surveyed...
Lawrence Mayer, a professor of statistics at Wharton, U Penn's business school, in Philadelphia, was removed from the directorship of the Wharton Analysis Center in late Mach following the first phase of an investigation prompted by many accusations of corrupt practices at the center...
After this initial disciplinary action, Wharton School's Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, which had called for the ad hoc inquiry, decided to continue further investigation...
...McGill, chairman of Wharton department of insurance, and Provos Thomas Ehrlich, who are heading the inquiry, both declined comment this week of the status of the committee's proceedings...
...cover story "Paying More for Money" is one of the most concise and erudite discussions of the subject I have read. In 1926, when I was studying economics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, my instructors were endorsing the philosophy that the economy could be managed and fine-tuned to smooth, if not virtually eliminate, the severity of the recurrent peaks and troughs of business cycles. These professors believed that the Federal Reserve System, which was then 13 years old, would do it; 1929 was only three years down the road...