Research

Partnership with AltFinance

Burcu Esmer is Academic Director of the Wharton-AltFinance Institute. As part of the partnership between The Wharton School and AltFinance, HBCU faculty will be able to take part in a Faculty Research Fellowship at Wharton. These faculty will have the opportunity to spend a semester at Wharton during the school year under the Harris Program. They will develop their research and collaboration skills, deepening connections to other faculty members with similar interests.

Visiting faculty members are:

• Professor Vaneesha Dutra, associate professor of finance at Howard University (LinkedIn)
• Professor Inger Daniels-Hollar, assistant professor of finance at Florida A&M University and graduate student instructor at Florida State University (LinkedIn)

Learn more about the AltFinance Institute on this Wharton Story.

2024-2025 Research Grants

Private Equity, Corporate Acquirers, & Product Innovation: An Investigation of Corporate Science Acquisitions 1990-2022
Sathya Vijayakumar, PhD Student at the Wharton School
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Strategic Bootstrapping and Startup Experimentation
Ndubuisi Ugwuanyi, PhD Student at the Wharton School
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