Wharton MBA for Executives

I think Negotiations is the best class at Wharton. It’s certainly a lot of fun since you do a lot of hands on negotiations with classmates. However, it is a class where you really see the true colors of a lot of classmates (mostly bad).
As much as I tried to take the class […]

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Someone wrote up an interesting critique of this site. I guess most of their comments are fair.
http://www.mbapersonalstatement.com/critique-of-wharton-mba-for-executives/

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wow, term 5 is over. This means that we’re down to our last term!
For me it’s not really over. I took 3 classes and only 1 of them is truly over. I still have to write my final paper for entrepreneurship class and I still have to take the final for investment […]

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The official Wharton blog is at http://www.whartonexecutivemba.com/whartonexecutivemba_blog/
I have an RSS feed on the left side of this site that shows the latest blog posts.
A few weeks ago there was a post about our International trip. Our very own Suki Toguchi was quoted in the article: http://www.whartonexecutivemba.com/whartonexecutivemba_blog/2009/11/wharton-emba-students-talk-about-international-trips-to-spain-and-singapore.html
Today, they wrote about me. I […]

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I’ve heard many times that it’s not a good idea to change jobs while you’re in the program. I believe that is good but obvious advice. Of course it’s not a good idea to change jobs.
But sometimes (especially in this economy), you don’t actually have much of a choice. If you get […]

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I actually try to keep this blog free of mass media clutter…discussions around useless media news such as Jon/Kate + 8, Octomom, Kayne West, etc. But last week we had a somewhat interesting story on a slow news day that has some relevance to our Wharton classes this term. I will even say […]

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One question that I constantly ask myself is: “Does it get easier?”
I thought term 1 was tough. We had an accounting midterm before I was settled in. The FAP took up a ton of time. There was a lot of reading and studying to do. I also had to get into […]

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TheFink wrote a wondering insight into GCP a few months ago (see here: http://www.whartonblog.com/?s=gcp. As I wrote in one of the comments, I have joined a GCP team.
A couple of days ago we heard that we got the Spain Virtual Animations project! Our top choice was the Chile VinoLux project. This is […]

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Hi all, the lack of posting was due to a recent server move. I moved whartonblog over to a new server that should work fairly well. The result was that I couldn’t post while I was working on the move. It looks like it’s working now though so I should be back […]

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I got around to processing my pictures so here are some pictures from Spain.

Madrid

Madrid

Plaza Mayor

Jay Nanduri in front of the Toledo train station

Ben and John taking a break before the Indra presentation

Toledo up on a hill

Touring the Inditex (Zara) distribution center

Auditorium at Santander

Group shot at Real Madrid Futbol stadium

A toast…to Real Madrid

Stadium

View of the stadium […]

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