The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981

by Stephen L. Sass

Book Overview

As prominent as the Wharton School of Business is today, so was the Wharton family in the mercantile world of eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Nineteenth-century scion of this large and wealthy business family, Joseph Wharton amassed a huge new fortune in his American Nickel Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and through these enterprises helped catapult the nation into the modern age of industry. In 1881, while still in mid-career, he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278143
• ISBN13: 9780812278149
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"