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Irina Malinovskaya, 22, a senior at Penn’s Wharton School of Business, faces first-degree murder charges for killing Irina Zlotnikov, 24, with a “blunt object,” New Castle County, Del., police said...
...Wharton School professor Ken Shropshire, who has written several sports books, including In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, thinks change in the way fans relate to their teams is fueled by everything from close-up TV coverage to video games. "With the realistic, violent sports video games and the pervasiveness of sports on television, there's closeness, and fans feel they're actually part of this thing now," he says. "From a marketing aspect, all the major sports convey that fans are right in the middle. So they feel they should be part of the game...
...1920s, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School postulated that markets are bullish when hemlines inch upward. And when a team from the old American Football League beats a National Football League squad in the professional gridiron championship, stocks tend to sour...
Soifer predicted that an analysis of other top business schools would produce “comparable but not quite as dramatic results.” He speculated that “students who go to Wharton and [MIT’s] Sloan [School of Management] are more quantitatively-oriented than the ones at Harvard...
...Whereas Wharton and Sloan students might head to securities industry jobs that require advanced mathematical backgrounds regardless of economic conditions, Harvard grads—who Soifer said are trained to be “generalists”—might spurn Wall Street offers during a bear market for business jobs not directly linked to the stock exchanges...