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That's a tough one.
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I'm Pat Harker. I'm the Rowan
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of
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Operations, Information, and Decisions
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here at the Wharton School. And I grew
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up right across the river in a little
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town called Gloucester City, New Jersey,
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just south of Camden, New Jersey. So
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before coming back to Wharton, I was
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president and CEO of the Federal Reserve
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Bank of Philadelphia for 10 years. Prior
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to that, I was president of the
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University of Delaware right down the
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road for eight years. And before that I
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was here at Wharton as dean for eight
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years. So my area of expertise is around
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[music] managing service businesses
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particularly financial service companies
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both technology and process management.
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I've had a lot of defining moments
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throughout my career. First is being
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here on the faculty of Wharton was a
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real privilege and I'm just [music]
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thankful to be back. This is where I
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grew up as an academic. This is where I
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grew up as a leader and I was able to
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use those things I learned [music] when
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I took over at the Philly Fed. My work
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at Penn Washington is to try to bring
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the expertise not just of the Wharton
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School but the Penn faculty overall to
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the table to influence policy on [music]
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a regular basis. There are many
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challenges we face and the academic
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work, the leadership that we have here
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at Penn can really contribute to forming
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policies, practical, implementable
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policies [music] that make sense. What
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I'm most excited about coming back to
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Wharton is re-engaging with the academic
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life and being able to say some things I
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couldn't say when I was president of the
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Philly Fed, particularly around fiscal
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[music] policy, the issues we're facing,
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I think the serious issues we're facing
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as a country. We need to come up with
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practical solutions to solve what we're
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[music] all facing together.
