Wharton MBA for Executives

Earlier this month I wrote this gem: http://www.whartonblog.com/?p=165 - it was all about the Kindle and why I was too cool to actually buy this piece of junk that doesn’t even support color.
However, I’m slightly ashamed to say…I bought one.
Last Thursday I went up to the bay area for a meeting at PixSense, one of […]

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Just because the economy is down, it doesn’t mean that all businesses are in trouble.
A few months ago I started hearing about the Kogi BBQ truck. I first heard from word of mouth from lots of friends down here in LA. Then an interesting thing happened…I started getting email messages from […]

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Grades for “Management Communication” are up on Penn InTouch.

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It seems like pretty much every day for the past week or so there have been news broadcasts and articles written about AIG.
To quickly recap, AIG had a major liquidity crisis in September 2008 when the stock market fell due to the financial crisis. Over the next few months the US government […]

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The Cal Bears are in the big dance (they have a game this Thursday). I was curious so I went to check if the Penn Quakers made it to the big dance.
So I went to espn, checked the standings in the Ivy league and….
Quakers suck. They finished the season with a […]

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Term 3 is the toughest term we have had so far at Wharton. In terms of the course load, it is definitely the highest. In addition, we have this 0.25 unit course for communication this term. This class isn’t so bad (you have various topics and present a speech in each class […]

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My parents live in Korea. My dad is actually a retired Professor and former Dean of his school at SNU (Seoul National University). He runs his own research lab now (http://www.ieconslt.com/eng/index.html) and some people say that we look alike (http://www.ieconslt.com/eng/company/main.html). So obviously my dad has been around the world of academia for […]

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SABRE is the tool that Wharton uses in its Marketing Strategy class. The marketing simulation sets up teams and the teams compete throughout the course to see who performs the best. You decide on which products to sell, how much to allocate for R&D, how many of each product to produce, how much […]

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Suki, Sam, and Ben were planning a class dodgeball tournament for this past Thursday as a stress reliever after the Finance exam. The game was going to be section 1 versus section 2. I’ve never played dodgeball before, but was really looking forward to it. Social events without alcohol are rare, so I always get excited when they come […]

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On Saturday in Marketing 622 we discussed the Amazon Kindle. By now most people know about the Kindle (since Oprah talked about it). I tend to be someone who buys gadgets and toys like this so I’ve had a few people over the past year or so (since the Kindle first came out) […]

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