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 2009

Good Bye NUMMI

August 25th, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

In John Paul MacDuffie’s Management of People class we discussed the NUMMI plant in Fremont. It’s a fascinating plant run by Toyota and GM and they produced some great cars. In fact, I wrote a blog post about it last year here.
Well, it looks like they are finally shutting it down. Toyota, […]

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Another purchase…Flip Mino HD

August 24th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

Term 5 is well under way. We have already had our first session and this week is a 3 day session. However, since we have our international trip in September, we don’t have class for an entire month. I believe this will be the longest period of down time away from 101 […]

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Between terms…

August 10th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

I like these weeks between terms. We finished term 4 and term 5 starts this weekend. However, at Wharton, just because you haven’t actually had class yet in term 5 doesn’t mean that you don’t already have assignments due, readings to do, etc. But at least I got to take last week […]

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There’s a Reason It’s 1.5 Credits!

August 4th, 2009 by RVD · 3 Comments

(Guest Post by TheFink)
I’m typing in for RVD I know that I have a big hat to fill but am excited for my opportunity to express myself on the internet….something only a select few have the privilege of doing.
Quick overview of GCP. The program was started by Len Lodish in 1978 and […]

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MB…

August 3rd, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

Ah, another term in the history books. 4 out of 6 terms completed. MB out of MBA completed.
Term 4 was tough. I think this was our toughest term to date. We had legal studies which was a lot of reading and a lot of work for a 0.5 unit class. […]

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