Wharton MBA for Executives

Random musings, diatribes, and possibly curious insights of former students of the Wharton MBA for Executives (San Francisco) program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Entries from December 2008

Happy New Year!

December 31st, 2008 by RVD · 2 Comments

Well, it’s the last day of 2008.  I just want to take a brief moment to look back on a few things that happened this past year.
1) We started school on May 19, 2008 and had classes for an entire week (6 days)!  That was a crazy week where we got to meet everyone, meet […]

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Preparation for term 3

December 28th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

I took the last week off from school.  It was Christmas, I had family visiting, etc…and studying just seemed like something I should NOT be doing.  But it’s been a week and I started to crack open the material for term 3.
Wow, it looks like we have reading to do for the first weekend of […]

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Guest bloggers?

December 28th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Hey, if anyone is willing to write a guest blog post or two, please let me know.  I’m especially interested in hearing about some firsthand experiences from GCP, Ulrich’s product class next week, and any other thoughts you may have.

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Back to life!

December 21st, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

As Umer mentioned in the post below, we’re done with the term.  Our class has had a pretty inconvenient schedule (class on the 4th of July, class the day after New Years, etc.) but I am glad that we were able to finish up the term before the year end holiday season.
It sounded like many […]

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One-third done!

December 21st, 2008 by Umer · No Comments

What a brutal weekend! Both the Managerial Accounting and Business Statistics exams were on Saturday, and both professors decided to make their exams REALLY hard. On top of that, homework #4 for Statistics was due, and our group continued to work on it after the exams very late into the evening. This homework (running a […]

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Ponzi Scheme and Macroeconomics

December 18th, 2008 by RVD · 1 Comment

Bernard Madoff is making headlines because he is the most recent NY investor to get caught pulling a ponzi scheme.  Some estimates say that his losses are estimated at $50 billion.  That’s right, 50 BILLION dollars, not million.  That’s a lot of money.  Eventually, he ran out of investors and got caught when people tried […]

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Macro grades are posted

December 15th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Macroeconomics grades are posted.  Good luck.

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WSJ - ROI of EMBA

December 11th, 2008 by RVD · 4 Comments

The WSJ yesterday had an article about measuring the ROI of an EMBA.  A few months ago, the WSJ had an article where they ranked the EMBA programs in the country (I wrote about it here).  The new WSJ article is here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122886992617993259.html.

In the new article, they ranked the EMBA programs with the […]

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Term 2 is almost over

December 8th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

We’re down to our last session for term 2!  In 2 weeks we have our last 2 finals (Managerial Accounting and Statistics) and then we’re done for the term.  We will be 1/3 of the way to our MBA degrees!
This past weekend we had our last Macroeconomics class (so we had the final).  I am […]

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Wharton MBA for Executives Promotional Video

December 8th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Check out the new Wharton promotional video.  It was created when we were in Philadelphia back in September.  I think they did a pretty good job promoting the program.  Good work to Ben, Rangesh, and everyone else.
Click here to view the video!

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