Wharton MBA for Executives

Random musings, diatribes, and possibly curious insights of former students of the Wharton MBA for Executives (San Francisco) program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Entries from January 2009

Ranked #1 (again)

January 26th, 2009 by RVD · 2 Comments

Financial Times (ft.com) ranked the full time program as #1 business school in the world (again).  yawn…it’s boring to be this good.
http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings

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Warrior Basketball

January 19th, 2009 by RVD · 2 Comments

So what is social life like at Wharton?  I’d say that overall everyone is pretty cool and hangs out with everyone so you don’t have a bunch of random cliques and stuff like that.  But I’d say that you have roughly the following groups:
1) Organised Party People - Suki is generally the leader of this […]

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Got Coke?

January 18th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

On Friday we discussed a case in Corporate Finance about the Coca-Cola company.  It was an interesting case where we discussed using the DuPont method to analyze the health of the company.  The general consensus was that the financial information showed a few issues with sustainability of growth and that KO would likely not be […]

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STAT and ACCT grades are posted

January 8th, 2009 by Umer · No Comments

All term 2 grades are in. Good luck everyone.

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Term 3 starts!

January 5th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

This past weekend was the start of term 3.  It’s always exciting to start a new term.  We get new books, meet new professors, change our study rooms, and study with a new section of students.  Term 2 was a bit more painful for me personally because our study room was down on the 4th […]

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