Compass Bank Joins with Knowledge@Wharton to Deliver Leading Business Insights to Clients.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Compass Bank announced that it has entered into a strategic affiliate relationship with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s oldest business school. , which reaches more than 570,000 subscribers worldwide. As a result of this relationship, Knowledge@Wharton content will be delivered directly to Compass clients and contacts through a special co-branded Internet site located at http://compassbank.knowledgeatwharton.com. "We are pleased at the opportunity to work with Knowledge@Wharton to give our clients such a valuable resource via the Internet," said George Boltwood, Compass' senior executive vice president and head of corporate banking. "Knowledge@Wharton offers the kind of insightful, practical content that is an ideal complement to our existing Compass on Business program." Knowledge@Wharton, launched in 1999, has more than 1,500 articles and research papers in its database and continues to publish timely articles on important business topics both domestic and global. In addition to the English version, Knowledge@Wharton has developed a Spanish/Portuguese version in collaboration with Universia.net, a Madrid-based network of over 800 IberAmerican universities in Spain A list of universities in Spain, organized by the autonomous community they're located in: * Private university † Catholic university
David C. Schmittlein, Deputy Dean of the Wharton School, welcomed the school's relationship with Compass Bank. "The corporate content affiliate program allows us to develop new relationships with firms that desire to bring depth of information to their online presence," he noted. Mukul Pandya, editor and director of Knowledge@Wharton, added: "We are confident that this initiative will bring value to Compass Bank and its clients, while also adding more readers to our fast-growing global audience." Compass Bancshares Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a privately held company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Its subsidiary, Compass Bank, is a Southwestern financial holding company with $47 billion in assets and 417 full-service banking offices in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. , Inc. is a $30.8 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 384 full-service banking centers including 139 in Texas, 90 in Alabama, 71 in Arizona, 42 in Florida, 32 in Colorado and 10 in New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). . Compass is among the top 30 U.S. bank holding companies by asset size and ranks among the top earners of its size based on return on equity. Additional information about Compass, a member of the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Select Dividend Index, can be found at www.compassbank.com. About Knowledge@Wharton and the Wharton School Knowledge@Wharton is a free biweekly bi·week·ly adj. 1. Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. n. pl. bi·week·lies A publication issued every two weeks. adv. 1. Every two weeks. online resource that captures knowledge generated at Wharton through such channels as research papers, conferences, books, and interviews with faculty on current business topics, and distributes that knowledge online to a global business audience. The website contains more than 1,500 articles and research papers in its database and more are added every week. Over the past five years, Knowledge@Wharton has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Economist Intelligence Unit The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is part of The Economist Group. It is a research and advisory company providing country, industry and management analysis worldwide and incorporates the former Business International Corporation, a U.S. , Information Week, and several other publications. Corporate Content Affiliate Program: for more information about Knowledge@Wharton's corporate content affiliate program, contact Lucia Zapatero at zapatero@wharton.upenn.edu. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate col·le·giate adj. 1. Of, relating to, or held to resemble a college. 2. Of, for, or typical of college students. 3. Of or relating to a collegiate church. business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration , and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000 worldwide. |
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