[1][2] Wharton School Press publishes a select list of books on a variety of topics, including leadership, management, strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, social impact, and public policy.
[7][8][9][10] Wharton School Press was launched in 2011 by Stephen J. Kobrin, William H. Wurster Emeritus Professor of Multinational Management, who retired from his role as executive director in 2018.
[2] Then-executive editor Shannon Berning stated the decision to move away from a print-centric publishing model was to “respond to the way people read today.”[3] While other business-school presses had experimented with digital technologies, the Wharton School was the first and only business school to launch a digital book press dedicated exclusively to exploring the opportunities presented by these new technologies.
The imprint brought together a variety of business educators and corporate executives on a list that featured works in many formats, including print, audio, electronic documents, CD-ROM and video.
The imprint released 35 to 40 peer-reviewed books a year in 11 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.