Wharton MBA for Executives

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The idea is not to learn the entire course while you’re taking the final…

October 9th, 2008 by RVD · 1 Comment

Early this year I came here to Wharton for my interview.  I also sat in on Professor Percival’s Corporate Finance class.  It was a very interesting class about balancing risk with your portfolio, etc.

At the end of the class he talked a little bit about the final coming up.  He said that it was open book and that the students will have 3 hours and 3 hours should be more than enough time to take the exam.  He mentioned that he would ideally have the exam without a time limit but then again, “the idea is not for you to sit here and learn the entire course while you’re taking the final”…

My OPIM exam is tomorrow.  I thought I was pretty good at this stuff until the past couple of days when my brain suddendly decided to stop functioning whenever I came across an LP problem, sensitivity analysis, simulation, etc.  For some reason I feel like I’m going to have to learn the entire course tomorrow while I’m sitting there taking the final…crap.

(posted by RVD)

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  • 1 Caliho! // Oct 9, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    You won’t be alone. I’ll sit next to you and we can learn it together. I still look for a light source and a dark, dollar-shaped spot on the ground when anyone mentions “shadow price”.

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