On Wednesday night (2/24) at 7 p.m., the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club of St. Louis, in conjunction with SIFE@MBU (Students in Free Enterprise), will host Penn's Wharton School of Business lecturer and author, Professor Scott Rosner** in Pillsbury Chapel. The topic of Prof. Rosner's presentation will be the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and will be heavily tilted toward business and sports management ethics.

This event is free of charge and may be of particular interest to athletes, coaches, sports management professionals and students, and business professionals, teachers and students.

All members of the University are invited to attend, and the event is open to the public. SIFE@MBU students are helping to coordinate the event and will make a short presentation before Professor Rosner speaks. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

For questions about the event, please contact Stephanie Kontrim-Baumann, kontrse@mobap.edu, or Professor Brenda Bradford, Chair of the Business Division (314) 392-2339 bradfbd@mobap.edu.

 

**Prof. Rosner is an Associate Director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and a full-time Lecturer in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He teaches courses in The Sports Industry and Sports Law to undergraduate students and Sports Business Management to MBA students.  Professor Rosner also serves as the Faculty Mentor to the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s basketball team.  His research interests include the use of digital media in sports,  the impact of globalization in the sports industry, the financial aspects of Title IX and college athletics, valuation of professional sports franchises, contraction in professional sports, hazing in interscholastic, intercollegiate and professional sports, sport and urban revitalization, and racial and gender issues in sport. Professor Rosner received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an M.S. in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.