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 August 2009

Good Bye NUMMI

August 25th, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

In John Paul MacDuffie’s Management of People class we discussed the NUMMI plant in Fremont. It’s a fascinating plant run by Toyota and GM and they produced some great cars. In fact, I wrote a blog post about it last year here.
Well, it looks like they are finally shutting it down. Toyota, […]

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Another purchase…Flip Mino HD

August 24th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

Term 5 is well under way. We have already had our first session and this week is a 3 day session. However, since we have our international trip in September, we don’t have class for an entire month. I believe this will be the longest period of down time away from 101 […]

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Between terms…

August 10th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

I like these weeks between terms. We finished term 4 and term 5 starts this weekend. However, at Wharton, just because you haven’t actually had class yet in term 5 doesn’t mean that you don’t already have assignments due, readings to do, etc. But at least I got to take last week […]

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There’s a Reason It’s 1.5 Credits!

August 4th, 2009 by RVD · 3 Comments

(Guest Post by TheFink)
I’m typing in for RVD I know that I have a big hat to fill but am excited for my opportunity to express myself on the internet….something only a select few have the privilege of doing.
Quick overview of GCP. The program was started by Len Lodish in 1978 and […]

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MB…

August 3rd, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

Ah, another term in the history books. 4 out of 6 terms completed. MB out of MBA completed.
Term 4 was tough. I think this was our toughest term to date. We had legal studies which was a lot of reading and a lot of work for a 0.5 unit class. […]

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