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Wharton Sports Business Summit 2022

Overview After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Wharton Sports Business Summit is back and better than ever! Join us on October 21, 9:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. ET, at Jon M. Huntsman Hall. This year's summit will consist of keynote presentations, a variety of panels with diverse…Read More

Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative Welcomes Winners from the 2022 NBA Math Hoops National Championship

Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) partnered with Learn Fresh to host an educational session in conjunction with the 2022 NBA Math Hoops National Championship Weekend, bringing together 28 students from across the country for a weekend of learning, competition, and fun! The weekend was co-hosted by Learn Fresh,…Read More

Sam Mondry-Cohen Joins Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative

Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative is thrilled to welcome Sam Mondry-Cohen as Senior Sports Business Fellow. Previously, Sam was an Assistant General Manager for the Washington Nationals, where he worked for twelve seasons. Sam built and led the Nationals’ first Baseball Research & Development department, culminating in a World…Read More

Penn Students Win Syracuse Sport Analytics 2022 Football Analytics Blitz

Penn students Zach Bradlow (Penn ’22), Zach Drapkin (W’22), Sarah Hu (W’23), and Ezra Troy crowned 2022 Football Analytics Blitz champs!

It’s a numbers game: Penn students detail their analytics internships in the NFL

Wharton students Zach Drapkin (W’22) and Sarah Hu (W’23), Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club (USBC) Board Members, share their “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” interning for their favorite NFL teams with the Daily Pennsylvanian. Nearly every young sports fan dreams of one day growing up to work for their favorite team. Similarly, nearly…Read More

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Adi Wyner Presents at the 2021 SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) Virtual Analytics Conference

Adi Wyner, Co-Director of Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative presented at the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference, presented by Major League Baseball, Rawlings, and Sports Info Solutions, on March 14, 2021. The conference brings together the top minds in the baseball analytics community to discuss, debate, and share insightful ways…Read More

A New Playbook: Race and the Global Sports Business Industry

Ken Shropshire was featured in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of The Wharton Magazine where he discusses how the current roster of athlete activists are speaking out and redefining the sports industry.…Read More

Recap of Inside the Industry: Soccer Panel

JANUARY 23, 2017
Wharton Sports Business Initiative is pleased to have partnered with the Undergraduate Sports Business Club’s “Inside the Industry: Soccer Panel” on Monday night. Over 100 students came to hear from a panel of key influencers in the soccer industry…Read More