The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university located in Philadelphia. Wharton was established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton. Wharton is widely regarded as one of the world's top institutions for business education. In 2014-2015, the U.S. News & World Report ranked Wharton's undergraduate program first, MBA program first, and executive MBA program also first, making Wharton the only school to ever be ranked number one in all three categories simultaneously. The undergraduate program at the Wharton School has been ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report every single year since inception. The Financial …show more content…
The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, actuarial science, e-commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, insurance, international business, marketing, production/operations management, public policy, real estate, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Wharton’s 20 research centers and initiatives reflect the diversity and depth of research interests and activity at the School. Based on publications in 24 of the world's leading peer-reviewed journals, Wharton holds the top position in research productivity, and a report by Indiana University indicated that the Wharton School has held the top rank in research productivity each year since 1986 when compilation of this information first commenced [11]. Wharton’s 225-plus professors generate the knowledge and innovations that transform global business practice and public policy. Drawn from 10 distinct departments, they work with leading companies and policy-makers around the world, and they bring that real-world, real-time knowledge into Wharton’s classrooms and 20 …show more content…
In all these faculties of the Universities, the departmental effectiveness can be measured using ABC model of determining Research productivity. The departmental research index and the weighted research index should determine the departmental competency in a given subject. In the case of University departments, acronym A stands for the number of articles published in refereed journals, B stands for the number of books published, and C stands for the number of book chapters written in an edited book.
ABC method of measuring research productivity can also be applied for individual faculty members to determine their competency in the subject and the promotion for faculty members should not be based on their number of years experience, instead, it should be based on their annual research productivity averaged for the given duration of monitoring.
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