Nationality United States Name William Hamilton | Role Professor | |
Institution University of Pennsylvania School or tradition Management and Technology Alma mater London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.) 1967
University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.) Industrial Management 1964
University of Pennsylvania (M.S.) Chemical Engineering 1964
University of Pennsylvania (B.S.) Chemical Engineering 1961 Contributions Technology strategy
Business technology management Awards David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching 1991, 2003
White House Fellow, 1973–1974 Education University of Pennsylvania Fields Entrepreneurship, Strategic planning, Health economics | ||
William F. Hamilton (born 1941) is the Ralph Landau Professorship of Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a management consultant.
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Hamilton is a pioneer and advocate of joint-degree programs of business and engineering. He started the Management and Technology Program in 1977 and founded the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology in 1978.
Hamilton served as Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology in the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 2015. He co-founded the Department of Operations and Information Management at Wharton. He participated in the creation of Penn’s Weiss Technology House, Wharton's Program in Emerging Technologies, and the Executive Masters Program in Technology Management in the Engineering School.