Established in 2004, the Wharton GFA is a unique academic-family business partnership established through an agreement between the Wharton School and the CCC Alliance. The Wharton GFA is designed to create and disseminate knowledge that is helpful to substantial families and to their businesses.

In creating Wharton GFA, we have established a unique global institution that allows global families to transcend traditional boundaries of nationality, religion, and geography, to collaborate together for mutual benefit and the benefit of society as a whole. Wharton GFA highlights how families can impact the societies in which they transact via the social wealth that their enterprises create. The Wharton GFA achieves competitive advantage as the center for global families by offering a vigorous research agenda to a global audience, a robust curriculum of degree and non-degree programs, and a variety of outreach activities.