Wharton houses the world’s largest, most cited and most published business school faculty, with 205 standing members. These men and women form a powerful intellectual community, whose research generates innovation in business and in Wharton classrooms each year. To maintain this strength, the School must continue to build its faculty through Endowed Professorships—one of its most powerful tools to recruit, sustain and develop the finest portfolio of faculty. Recognizing junior faculty who show great promise as teachers and scholars, Faculty Scholar Awards help the School to retain top emerging talent and encourage quality research productivity. Through increased support for Faculty Strategic Research Funds, Wharton will enable both the creation of cutting-edge knowledge and bridge the gap between theory and practice.