Groundbreaking Knowledge@Wharton Report on Credit Crisis Offers Range of Interactive Tools and Wharton Faculty Interviews to Provide Answers on Economic Implosion

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced that its award winning business analysis journal, Knowledge@Wharton, has published “A Knowledge@Wharton Special Report: The Credit Crisis,” a deeply layered analysis of one of the most devastating economic challenges to face the US economy in years. Filled with helpful glossary definitions, an elaborate timeline, faculty insights and video interviews, the Report is the most interactive of its kind ever produced by Knowledge@Wharton. The editors expect it to become a favored resource for students, individual investors and Federal regulators alike. The report is available online here: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special_sections/subprime/

The Report features audio and video interviews of Wharton faculty including Profs. Jeremy Siegel, Franklin Allen, Marshall Blume, Richard Marston, Todd Sinai, Susan Wachter and Michael Useem along with transcripts of their comments. In addition, an opinion piece by former Wharton Dean and author of “Ultimate Leadership,” Russell Palmer, attributes the crisis to “greed” and delivers some pointed advice and specific strategies to CEOs caught in the crisis.

“Our team has worked tirelessly to produce a Report that serves as resource for anyone— high school students, business journalists, home owners and even federal regulators—seeking understanding of how the credit crisis has affected the global economy,” said Knowledge@Wharton Editor-in-Chief Mukul Pandya. “The Report makes it easy to find information in whatever format or quantity the user prefers. That’s a hallmark of Knowledge@Wharton and that’s the special value of this Report.”

For users seeking context and clarity the Report incorporate more layers of interactive content than ever before seen within the Knowledge@Wharton network. Some of the elements include:

* a decades-long timeline tracing the history of the subprime meltdown;

* a slideshow-style presentation that shows how disparate events, practices and policies fell like a cascade of dominos toward the brink of global recession;

* a searchable database or glossary of definitions of key economic terminology linked to related faculty commentary;

* a video “documentary” providing a five minute overview of the entire crisis;

* Knowledge @ Wharton investigative articles that shed light on the role and responsibility of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Government.

Special reports are among the more than 2,000 articles, podcasts, video podcasts and working papers found in the Knowledge@Wharton network. The “Credit Crisis” Report is one of nearly three dozen special reports Knowledge@Wharton has completed in the past on such topics as diversity in the workplace, business process outsourcing, globalization and leadership.

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