Wharton MBA for Executives

I started reading for my MGMT 621 class over the weekend. It’s an interesting class because it’s about managing people. Like most students in the MBA for Executives program, I have many years of experience managing people. I started managing people way back in 1997 so it’s been 11 years already! […]

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I received my PennKey today so I now have access to my Wharton email account.  I am danpaik at wharton DOT upenn DOT edu for the next 2 years and I will be Daniel DOT paik DOT wg10 AT wharton DOT upenn DOT edu.
I got into SPIKE, which is basically Wharton’s internet portal.  It’s kind […]

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ok one correction.  I actually started looking through the books and bulk packs last night.  Each class has roughly 200-300 pages of reading to do (more if you count optional reading, etc.).  So the total is more like 600-800 pages of various reading before classes start.
This is no joke…there’s a lot of work.  But I […]

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Well, my books finally arrived.  I think I was one of the last students to receive books (as most students got their books on Friday or yesterday).  Anyway, the box wasn’t as big as I thought it would be but it was pretty heavy.  I sort of enjoyed not having books because it allowed me […]

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It’s been a little quiet around here because there isn’t really much to report.  We haven’t had much going on in school since we haven’t received our books yet.  This means that we also haven’t received our initial reading assignments, etc.
It does look like some people are receiving their shipment of books today so maybe […]

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A friend of mine at church (he just finished his evening/weekend MBA from USC this past summer) asked me today if I’m excited about going back to school. After thinking about it for a few minutes my answer was “Yes, I’m actually really excited right now. But classes haven’t even started yet and […]

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I promise to try not to clutter up this blog with material that is not relevant to the MBA program.  However, every now and then stuff happens that I do like to share with everyone so hopefully that’s ok.
My company, JuiceCaster, was nominated for a webby!  We are actually a mobile application with a slight […]

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I live in Southern California. This means that I’ll need to commute up north every other week for 2 years. I guess I always knew that it would get a bit tiring but I justified it by telling myself that it’s only a 1 hour flight and I can take BART once I’m […]

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It was nice meeting everyone who showed up for the reception on Saturday.  It looked like we had a pretty good turnout of the new class 34 folks.  Although there are a few people still on the fence about where to attend, I think for the most part everyone I met will be part of […]

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I was at CTIA in Las Vegas for most of the week.  I just flew back into town this morning and went straight to work and put in a full day.  It’s a slow week because everyone (all the carriers, handset manufacturers, etc.) was at CTIA and combine that with a startup company office with […]

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