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.…Read More
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Sports Analytics Summer Research Lab
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.…Read More
Penn Students Win 2023 Syracuse University Basketball Analytics Competition
Penn students Jake Federman (CAS’25), Naomi Korn (CAS’24), Justin Lipitz (W’23), and Elan Roth (CAS’25) for placing top-4 in the 2023 Syracuse University Basketball Analytics Competition!
Wharton Sports Business Summit Program
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM: Breakfast and Registration (Forum) 9:50 AM – 10:00 AM: Opening Remarks (G06) 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM: Morning Fireside Chat (G06) Marc Lasry: Co-Owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, CEO of the Avenue Capital Group Moderated by Kate Solomon, CAS’25 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM Investment…Read More
Wharton Sports Business Summit 2022
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.…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