Wharton MBA for Executives

Random musings, diatribes, and possibly curious insights of a student of the Wharton MBA for Executives (West) program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Entries from August 2008

Term 1 Observations

August 30th, 2008 by Umer · No Comments

Term 2 started yesterday, and I still haven’t been able to post my thoughts on term 1! Actually, I technically wrote this entry BEFORE the first class in term 2 started (at 8:30am yesterday), but was unable to post it because I forgot my blog password. Clearly, I don’t post often enough! Things have been […]

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Term 2 starts!

August 30th, 2008 by RVD · 1 Comment

It’s like the first day of school.  A new term started today we so go to use our new textbooks, meet our new professors, and say hi to all of our classmates, etc.  Of course it’s not like the first day of school in that we just saw each other 2 weeks ago.  We do […]

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Accounting grades are posted

August 27th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Accounting grades are posted in Penn InTouch.

Enjoy…
Update: Evidently not everyone spends as much time clicking through the various Penn systems as I do.  In general, go to Spike and then Penn Portal (on the top) and you’ll see all of the links there to Penn InTouch, etc.  There’s a lot of information there.
The direct link […]

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Start Reading!

August 25th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

I think most of us took a short break after finals to relax a bit, watch the Olympics, and clear our minds away from MR=MC, cournot, nash equilibriums, U(w), dominant price theory, etc.  I know I was happy to clear my mind away from valuation allowances, converting AFS->trading, treasury stock repurchases, etc.  When the solutions […]

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Term 2 - Looking forward…

August 19th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

I haven’t started studying for term 2 yet (I’m not that much of a sicko) but I did read through the syllabus for each class.  I noticed a few interesting things:
1) MGMT 652 is about Foundations of Leadership.  It is a 1/2 unit course so classes end with a final on 10/24.  That’s relatively normal […]

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Term 1 - Looking back

August 17th, 2008 by RVD · 2 Comments

If you look over at the categories area of this blog (on the left side right now), you will see a category for “Term 1.” Well, this is officially my last blog posting that is tagged as “Term 1″!
Looking back at term 1, it’s hard to believe that it’s already over. It’s […]

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Term 1 Over!

August 17th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Congrats to the class for finishing our last final today.  I think there are a few students who were not able to take finals yet so they will be making them up.  But for the majority of the class, we’re done!
I’m not sure how or when we get our grades but hopefully we all did […]

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One final done. One more to go. Last Accounting Lecture.

August 15th, 2008 by RVD · 2 Comments

MGEC final is over!  I took the final the morning.
Tomorrow is the Accounting final.  Everyone is definitely a lot more worried about that one.  I’ve been here on this blog mentioning the difficulty of accounting since midterm 1 and I mentioned a lot more after midterm 2.  I wasn’t quite sure if other students were […]

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International Trip

August 14th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

It’s common knowledge that we go on an international trip in Sept of 2009.  I’m not sure where class 33 is going but class 32 went to South America.  The international trip is a complex process with many students lobbying for their destination cities and student groups making elaborate presentations wearing costumes, etc.
They just posted […]

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Finals!

August 14th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Good luck everyone with finals!  I haven’t studied nearly enough because I had a really busy week at work.  I’ve been working until 8pm or so every day and coming home to have a quick dinner and trying to fit in as much study time as I could but it didn’t work out so well.  […]

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