Knowledge@Wharton
Web and Mobile Platform for Global Information Dissemination
One of the world's leading sources of business knowledge, Knowledge@Wharton delivers Wharton's innovative research and ideas to a worldwide audience of more than 1.3 million subscribers in 200 countries – in multiple languages over the web, on cell phones and PDAs, or downloadable to your iPod.
Knowledge@Wharton delivers to your desktop or PDA:
- Analysis of current business trends, recent business research, reviews
- Interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty
- A searchable database of over 1,500 articles and research abstracts
- A global network of regional editions covering China, India, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
- Delivery through newsletters, website, handheld devices and audio download
Published biweekly, Knowledge@Wharton was the first among business schools when it launched in 1999 and continues to capitalize on emerging technologies, creating new avenues to share timely business knowledge.
Technical Platform
Software:
- Adobe ColdFusion
- Microsoft SQL Server
Hardware:
- Virtualized load-balanced cluster on IBM BladeCenter servers
- IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage area network
Knowledge@Wharton Recognition
Press
- 2009: Times Online: "Online Portals are the Gateway to Knowledge"
"A growing number of schools is establishing online portals.... Knowledge@Wharton is the market leader." - 2007: Fast Company: "12 Podcasts for the Creative Class"
Knowledge@Wharton podcasts among the top twelve "must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers." - 2005: The Economist: "The Year of Listing Differently"
"Wharton has an online journal [Knowledge@Wharton] that is the envy of every other school." - 2005: Forbes.com: "Best of the Web"
"Wharton publishes a biweekly online resource (and e-newsletter) of faculty and industry perspectives that is easy-to-read and free of academic jargon." - 2002: Financial Times: "Wharton Turns its Mind to Latin America"
"Knowledge@Wharton is the Wharton School's hip answer to academic journals of financial record - and one of the more successful efforts to market business education to a wider public." - 2002: Inc. Magazine: "Best of the Net: B-School Brains"
"[O]nly a few schools have figured out how to use the Web to reach the business world. [. . .] Knowledge@Wharton, an E-zine published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is a trailblazer and as good an example of Web branding as you'll find anywhere."
