Faculty Host
Kenneth L. Shropshire
Kenneth L. Shropshire is the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Faculty Director of its Wharton Sports Business Initiative. He joined the Wharton faculty in 1986 and specializes in sports business and law. He is Special Counsel to the global law firm Duane Morris LLP and former president of the Sports Lawyers Association. Shropshire’s works include the foundational books, In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, The Business of Sports, The Business of Sports Agents, and Sports Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports, and he has provided commentary for a number of media outlets including Nightline, CNN, the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and Sports Illustrated. His interest in Cuba focuses on four major aspects: sports, diversity, business, and law. In all of these areas he is concerned with historic and current issues as well as with what the future will bring. Shropshire earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University and his law degree from Columbia University.