Edith Wharton described him as a man " to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City ..."

Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily ( Fogg ) Mead, was a sociologist who studied Italian immigrants.

While at Wharton, Milken was influenced by credit studies authored by W. Braddock Hickman, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, who noted that a portfolio of non-investment grade bonds offered " risk-adjusted " returns greater than that of an investment grade portfolio.

When negotiating for the possibility of annexation to the US in late 1836, the Texan government instructed its minister Wharton in Washington that if the boundary were an issue, Texas was willing to settle for a boundary at the watershed between the Nueces River and Rio Grande, and leave out New Mexico.

He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago, with Lennard Wharton and Donald Levy, where he was a pioneer in the development of supersonic beam laser spectroscopy.

At Charing Cross, he was taught by the Scot, Thomas Wharton Jones, Professor of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery at University College London.

The young Wharton Jones, who acted as go-between, was exonerated of crime, but thought it best to leave Scotland.

The first Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1719, by Philip, Duke of Wharton and a handful of other high society friends.

Lord Wharton, made a Duke by George I, was a prominent politician with two separate lives: the first, " a ... man of letters " and the second, "... a drunkard, a rioter, an infidel and a rake ".

After his Club was disbanded, Wharton became a Freemason, and in 1722 he became the Grandmaster of England.

Francis Dashwood was much more of a trickster than his predecessor Wharton.

In 1955, the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi was established under the University of Karachi in Pakistan, in collaboration with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and became the first Asian business school to offer an MBA program under the US MBA model.

It was produced and directed by Mary Wharton.

The first business school in the United States, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, was founded in 1881.

The Intel MCS-51 ( commonly referred to as 8051 ) is a Harvard architecture, single chip microcontroller ( µC ) series which was developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded systems .< ref > John Wharton: An Introduction to the Intel MCS-51 < sup > TM </ sup > Single-Chip Microcomputer Family, Application Note AP-69, May 1980, Intel Corporation .</ ref >< ref > John Wharton: Using the Intel MCS-51 < sup > TM </ sup > Boolean Processing Capabilities, Application Note AP-70, May 1980, Intel Corporation .</ ref > Intel's original versions were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The serial was written by Charles W. Goddard, Arthur B. Reeve ( story ) and George B. Seitz, and directed by Louis J. Gasnier, Seitz, and Leopold Wharton.

She was the niece of Edith Wharton and lifelong friend of Henry James.

< font size = 2 > Memorial to Sheriff Hamilton B. Dickson of Wharton County who served during the 1880s and was killed in an ambush in the line of duty .</ font size = 2 >

It was named for brothers William Harris Wharton and John Austin Wharton.

A map commissioned in the 1860s and distributed by the United States Army for the benefit of wounded troops indicates that, based on data from the 1860 national census, 80. 9 % of the population of Wharton County was enslaved, representing the highest portion of slaves in a single county in the state of Texas.

Conway County was formed on October 20, 1825, from a portion of Pulaski County and named for Henry Wharton Conway who was the territorial delegate to the U. S. Congress.

According to Forbes magazine, 90 % of billionaires with MBAs who derived their fortunes from finance obtained their master's degree from one of three schools: Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, or The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas Nichol, Wharton Barker, and Benjamin Harrison were widely considered to be the primary architects of Garfield's ascendancy during the convention, but no one could have controlled this unpredictable outcome for such a dark horse — one who had personally objected at every step.

The only lasting effect from the paper would be the incorporation of Wharton's libertine characteristics in the character of Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa, although Wharton would be only one of many models of libertine behaviour that Richardson would find in his life.

King found a friend in Anthony Upton, one of the judges, who had a house called Mountown, near Dublin, where King frequently stayed In 1708, when Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland, King returned to London,

But it was their second single, " Go Now " ( released later that year ), which really launched their career, being promoted on TV with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era, produced and directed by Alex Wharton.

Nearing distinguished himself as a " Wharton man " for the current progressive era, one of the proverbial " best and brightest " trained in practical economics to be readied for a place as a responsible leader of the community.

Even conservatives in the faculty were deeply troubled since, as one Wharton professor observed, " the moment Nearing went, any conservative statement became but the spoken word of a ' kept ' professor.

* Sam Wharton quotes the final stanza in his Jonathan Hare novel ' Ignorant Armies ' set in 1954, and one of his characters uses it as a commentary on the failure of senior people to maintain appropriate standards of conduct.

Wharton admits only one class with a single entry point every year.

Wharton MBA students may pursue a dual degree with the Lauder Institute, Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, or in one of the graduate schools at the University of Pennsylvania:

The popular and financial press has consistently ranked Wharton as one of the world's top institutions for business education.

According to Forbes, approximately 90 % of billionaires with MBAs who derived their fortunes from finance, obtained their master's degree from one of three Ivy League schools: Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, or Wharton.

* June 20, 1983: CISI Wharton, part of the French CEA, announces plans to invest USD 12 million over the next three years to position the newly enlarged entity as one of the world's leading economic forecasters.

He was nominated one of the Westminster Assembly, by Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton.

According to The Economist, one of the best studies to understand TRIA has been the one undertaken in 2005 by the Center for Risk Management at the Wharton Business School (" TRIA and Beyond "; available on their website below ).

-According to an EdUniversal ranking from 2011, the school is " universal " ( highest grade ) and ranks as the 24th most influential business school worldwide, right behind LSE ( 21st ), Cornell ( 22nd ) and NYU ( 23rd ) but ahead of University of Toronto ( Rotman, 25th ), IESE in Spain ( 25th ), Northwestern University ( Kellogg, 28th ), University of Chicago ( Booth, 33rd ), all but one Canadian school, and ahead of other international schools like ESSEC, ESCP-Europe, IE Business School, Dartmouth ( Tuck ) and even the prestigious University of Pennsylvania ( Wharton ).

He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College.

The fort took several years to finish and during this time the Horsehead property continued to be threatened so Wharton purchased an additional in the southern part of Jamestown including several farms, one at Beavertail in 1899.

Wharton obtained some pumice from one of the ship's crew, compared it with the dust he had collected, and found almost identical particles.

Wharton was one of the most accomplished metallurgists in America during his lifetime, certainly the most widely known.

It then came into the Wharton family, one of whom was made the Duke of Wharton in 1718 for his services to the Crown.