Wharton MBA for Executives

In my MGEC reading, I read about game theory and being a first mover as well as network externalities, etc.  The conclusion is basicaly that sometimes it’s important to be first in a market especially if there are network effects.  This includes a company like eBay where they came first in the US for auctions […]

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We had a management paper due at midnight Pacific time, and I managed to e-mail it to Professor MacDuffie at exactly 12:00am. The paper was worth 25% of the grade, and was due very quickly after the two recent mid-terms so many people were stressed out about it. It was difficult to condense the paper […]

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We had a pretty intense weekend that started with the midterms (both were pretty brutal in my opinion). The accounting midterms were graded and returned the next morning. Nobody scored a perfect 130/130 but there were a few really crazy scores…127, 128, and 129. Congrats to everyone for getting through the first […]

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Ok, our midterms are over. It was a brutal day. I got to school about an hour early. Similar to a boxer doing a quick work out in the back room to get a quick sweat going, I got in early to review some notes and get my brain warmed up to […]

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Wow, isn’t this exciting? NOT!!! Our first midterm is tomorrow! Wait…our second midterm is tomorrow too! Oh stop the presses…our paper is due tomorrow Monday (thanks JPM!)
I haven’t taken a midterm since 1996. I did try to spend as much time as I could preparing for this midterm. In […]

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I never thought it would be easy and everyone told me that getting an MBA while you’re working is difficult.  But the amount of work if you want to do everything right is just crazy.  I think it’s virtually impossible to do all of the following:
1) Read all of the assigned textbook reading
2) Do all […]

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The Wharton West program also includes meals.  The food so far has been pretty good.  There is hot breakfast on Saturday morning usually consisting of Pancakes, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, and turkey sausages.  There is also the usual assortment of bagels, pastries, donuts, fruit, cereal, etc.  And for drinks, they have milk, orange juice, etc.

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The Wharton West campus is in the renovated Folger building in San Francisco south of Market St.  Wharton occupies all of the 5th floor and part of the 4th floor.  My group had a meeting at 8AM on Saturday but I arrived a little early (at 7:45AM) so I took the opportunity to take some […]

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One of the requirements of the Wharton West program is staying at the Le Meridien Hotel on class session weekends. The tuition and fees include overnight lodging for all students so even if you live a few blocks away, you may as well get the Starwood points and stay at the hotel. It’s […]

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Session 2 ended yesterday and it was great!  I think the long “hell week” that we had last time really prepared us for this session pretty well.  The weekend seemed so short since we just went to 2 days of classes.  When I was checking out of the hotel, it felt like I had just […]

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