Wharton MBA for Executives

On the first day of Macroeconomics class, Professor Abel said that the study of macroeconomics is always interesting if there are things going on in the world and country during the semester.  If you’re lucky you may take the course during an election year or during a recession or during a housing / credit crisis, […]

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Believe it or not, we are 1/4 of the way done with our degrees!  It is a 24 month program and we just completed month 6!  A few comments as I reflect back on these last 6 months:
1) I am still a big supporter of the program.  I find myself looking forward to every other […]

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2 more exams this week and we’re done until finals!
Our OPIM grades are posted in Penn In Touch.  I am happy to say that I didn’t LT OPIM.  I think my brain just happens to be wired fairly well for stuff like OPIM.  It is NOT wired well for stuff like accounting.  I really liked […]

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First a small confession.  Before I started my current company, I worked for a financial software company.  We had a software product for the banking industry to help them process mortgage loans.  My role was to work on the WaMu team implementing our solution for their mortgage lending business.  We had hundreds of thousands of […]

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We had 2 exams this past weekend (OPIM final and Statistics midterm) and in 2 weeks we have 2 more exams (Management final and Finance midterm).  The good news is that the month of November is exam-free!  The bad news is that the month of December is…finals month.
This term has gone by quickly and I […]

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Early this year I came here to Wharton for my interview.  I also sat in on Professor Percival’s Corporate Finance class.  It was a very interesting class about balancing risk with your portfolio, etc.
At the end of the class he talked a little bit about the final coming up.  He said that it was open […]

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After learning how to use solver and crystal ball this term, I have been looking for ways to use these new skills at my work.  The problems in solvers are interesting but I haven’t figured out quite a use for it yet.  We don’t sell groupings of various things (mixed nut, perfume type problems), we […]

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Case - To Pay or Not to Pay
Believe it or not, I did generalize and fictionalize to protect the innocent and guilty but this is fairly representative of a situation I was in recently.  I tried to be objective but hey…who knows…whatever.
This doesn’t have that much to do with Wharton specifically so maybe I’ll remove […]

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This isn’t going out on any kind of limb but I predict that the National Bureau of Economic Research will announce that we’re in a recession (and have been) for the past few months at least…we are so in a recession right now.
So when are real estate prices going to drop so that I can […]

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It’s election year…that means you are voting for President but before that, you need to vote for electives!  I looked through the list and spent a few minutes ranking the classes I’d like.  I didn’t follow any specific “elective bidding strategy” or anything like that…didn’t really feel like overthinking it.  Anyway, my ballot is done […]

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