Pearson Education & Wharton School launch Wharton School Publishing.

Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ) and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Phil., PA) have entered into a partnership to launch Wharton School Publishing, a new business book publishing company.

The new company will publish business titles in a variety of media, including books, audio hooks, e-documents, CD-ROMs and videos. Pearson said the company will focus on producing titles with "applicable knowledge" published in multiple languages. The company will begin production in July from an initial list of 12 business titles, including "Capitalism at a Crossroads," "The Real New World Order" and "The Chinese Century." Content is currently being shown on whartonsp.com.