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 January 2009

Ranked #1 (again)

January 26th, 2009 by RVD · 2 Comments

Financial Times (ft.com) ranked the full time program as #1 business school in the world (again).  yawn…it’s boring to be this good.
http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings

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Warrior Basketball

January 19th, 2009 by RVD · 2 Comments

So what is social life like at Wharton?  I’d say that overall everyone is pretty cool and hangs out with everyone so you don’t have a bunch of random cliques and stuff like that.  But I’d say that you have roughly the following groups:
1) Organised Party People - Suki is generally the leader of this […]

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Got Coke?

January 18th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

On Friday we discussed a case in Corporate Finance about the Coca-Cola company.  It was an interesting case where we discussed using the DuPont method to analyze the health of the company.  The general consensus was that the financial information showed a few issues with sustainability of growth and that KO would likely not be […]

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STAT and ACCT grades are posted

January 8th, 2009 by Umer · No Comments

All term 2 grades are in. Good luck everyone.

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Term 3 starts!

January 5th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

This past weekend was the start of term 3.  It’s always exciting to start a new term.  We get new books, meet new professors, change our study rooms, and study with a new section of students.  Term 2 was a bit more painful for me personally because our study room was down on the 4th […]

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