"One-third of the S&P 500 companies have founding families involved in management. And those are usually the best performers...
"One of the best strategic advantages a company can have, it turns out, is blood lines."
- BusinessWeek,
November 10, 2003
Outreach
In creating Wharton GFA, we have established a unique global institution that allows global families to transcend traditional boundaries of nationality, religion, and geography, to collaborate together for mutual benefit and the benefit of society as a whole. Wharton GFA highlights how families can impact the societies in which they transact via the social wealth that their enterprise creates: increases in employment, productivity, national competitiveness and economic and social advancement. This is the first global family program of its kind, with focused efforts on research and sharing of best practices with regard to the social impact that global families have world-wide.
Wharton achieves competitive advantage by being the center for global families by offering a wide variety of outreach programs, a robust curriculum and a vigorous research agenda to a global audience.