Financial Services

Financial Services

Custom Programs for Your Team

The Wharton School is synonymous with finance. From modern portfolio theory to asset-pricing techniques, Wharton’s faculty have remained at the forefront of educating leaders in the financial-services industry. With business decisions driven increasingly by financials — and having a good grasp of finance — developing the finance leaders within your organizational ranks is a sound, strategic investment that will pay future dividends.

At Wharton Executive Education, we design and deliver programs that help financial and professional-services firms rise to today’s most pressing challenges, such as governmental/regulatory changes, mobile banking technology, new pricing models, and the growing shift from a product-driven approach to a more customer-centric focus. We understand how increased competitiveness in the financial sector, combined with more stringent regulatory-reserve requirements, has heightened global demand for developing employee capabilities.

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Strategic Focus

We can design programs for your executives that will help them understand the impact of financial data on business decisions in the following areas:

  • Corporate and Retail Banking
  • Insurance
  • Risk Management
  • Wealth Management and Financial Planning
  • Private Equity
  • Alternative Investments
  • Real Estate

Thought Leadership and Solutions

We have partnered with a range of world-class companies and organizations to create transformative executive education experiences. Resulting programs leverage the vast resources, such as the research centers of the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania, to showcase powerful thought leadership, and provide solutions that can be implemented immediately.

Below are examples of custom executive education solutions:

Citi

The Citi | Wharton Global Wealth Institute is a results-driven educational program that focuses on developing leadership and communication skills among the financial-services firm’s relationship-manager corps. The program is designed to help Citi’s highest-performing employees maximize their client relationships in the highly competitive private-wealth category.

FINRA

Over the course of a decade, two Wharton programs developed for FINRA have created a community of executive learners that has transformed the culture of this independent, not-for-profit organization authorized by Congress to protect America’s investors. Since 2008, 72 executives have graduated from the Wharton/FINRA programs and have been promoted, some earning multiple promotions.

Client Perspective

Wharton’s programs foster relationships that are effective on a personal and a business level. We see this by the amount of knowledge sharing and genuine caring by program participants to help each other find an answer — it’s seeding the next generation of leaders.”

Arlene Sha Director of Training and Development, Human Resources, FINRA

Faculty


Rafi Amit

Raphael Amit, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Marie and Joseph Melone Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, family business, venture-capital financing


Chris Geczy

Christopher Geczy, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Adjunct Professor of Finance; Academic Director, Wharton Wealth Management Initiative; Academic Director, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research, The Wharton School


Richard Herring

Richard Herring, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking; Professor of Finance, The Wharton School

Research Interests: International banking, international finance, money and banking


Richard Marston

Richard C. Marston, PhDSee Faculty Bio

James R. F. Guy Professor Emeritus of Finance, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Foreign exchange risk management, international asset pricing, international investments


Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts, PhDSee Faculty Bio

William H. Lawrence Professor; Professor of Finance, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Applied econometrics, corporate investment, capital structure

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