Wharton MBA for Executives

Hopefully most of you read the “official” Wharton MBA for Executives blog.  It is at http://www.whartonexecutivemba.com/whartonexecutivemba_blog/.  Although I like to think that I write more of an entertaining blog, that link is the official blog so it should also be read regularly.

I found it interesting that they updated it with our class profile.  Up until […]

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I wrote an entry a few months ago comparing the various PDAs that are available.  Since I work with various mobile phones every day, I can’t help but check out the phones that our classmates are using.
Since many of us are corporate employees, I think by far the most common PDA is the Blackberry (Curve) […]

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About a month or so ago I got a flat tire.  I was leaving work when I noticed that my tire was flat.  I have a AAA card so I did the easiest thing…called AAA and had them come out to put on the spare tire.  It turns out that on my car, there’s a […]

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It’s highly recommended that you DO NOT get a new job while you are in the Wharton program.  The Wharton coursework is a lot of work and you have to be some kind of masochist to get a new job and put yourself through that stress as well.
However, from talking to members of the upper […]

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Ok, the title may sound juicier than it is.
I am fairly active in the online world (after all, the company that I started is all about social networking) and the biggest topic in the MBA world over the past month or so is a scandal involving a website called ScoreTop.
If you haven’t heard…ScoreTop was a […]

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Ok so term 2 will consist of the following classes:
FNCE 602: Macroeconomic Analysis and Public Policy (Dr. Andrew Abel) - 1.0
MGMT 652: Foundations of Leadership (Dr. Michael Useem) - 0.5
OPIM 621: Decision Models and Uncertainty (Dr. Ziv Katalan) - 0.5
ACCT 622: Managerial Accounting (Dr. Chris Ittner) - 0.5
STAT 621: Statistical Analysis for Management (Dr. Richard […]

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Yes, it’s a little scary but we’re hitting our final stretch for term 1.  We only have 2 sessions left!
Next session: FAP papers due.  We submit our papers and each group does a presentation and Q&A.  Management 621 is officially over next session.  I don’t know how the grading will be but my guess […]

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On Friday night a group of us went to R&G lounge in SF for a big chinese banquet dinner (thanks Suki for setting it up!). The food was great and included chicken and sharksfin soup, dungeness crab, peking duck, walnut shrimp, etc.
We started with some simple Tsingtao beer. It was all fine and […]

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ok fine, I didn’t LT the accounting midterm but I still did pretty bad.  I’m going to have to do well on the final to salvage this…
Anyway, we have another management paper due on Monday so I’ll be working on that tonight.  The next 2 weeks will be busy with the FAP and the 2 […]

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It looks like the mean was 100.3 and LT cutoff is around 83.  I haven’t gotten my results yet but I predict that I LT’d this one.  I just really blanked out on this midterm.  We’ll find out soon…

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