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editor : whartondigitalpress@wharton.upenn.edu
Shannon Berning
Wharton Digital Press
Philadelphia, PA
http://wdp.wharton.upenn.edu/
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Wharton Digital Press was established to inspire bold, insightful thinking within the global business community. In the tradition of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and its online business journal Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton Digital Press uses innovative and interactive digital technologies to help managers meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

As an entrepreneurial publisher, Wharton Digital Press delivers relevant, accessible, conceptually sound and empirically based business knowledge to readers wherever and whenever they need it. Its format ranges from ebooks and enhanced ebooks to mobile apps and print books available through print-on-demand technology. Directed to a general business audience, the Press’s areas of interest include:

• Management
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance and investment
• Marketing
• Human resources
• Social responsibility
• And more

years experience: 18 years
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Business/investing/finance
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
For The Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business, by Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter
“Gamification. It’s one of the year’s top memes….Alas, like any white-hot meme, it’s often hard to sort the heat from the light. Thank heavens, then, for For the Win, a new book by Wharton’s Kevin Werbach and New York Law School’s Dan Hunter.” —Daniel Pink

The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, by Vivek Wadhwa
“Vivek Wadhwa’s new book, The Immigrant Exodus, is admirably short, yet he packs it with righteous fury. America, he points out, has one of the greatest assets a nation can have: people yearn to live there.” —The Economist

Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It, by Peter Cappelli
“Explodes the ‘skills gap’ explanation favored by many corporate leaders and human resources consultants." —Jena McGregor, The Washington Post

Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure, by Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Named #1 Best Business Book of 2011, by Patriot-News

The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles, by Michael Useem
Named one of the best leadership books of 2011 by the Washington Post

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