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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exams, exams, exams

October 23rd, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

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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Tags: Term 2

4th of July Weekend

July 6th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

We just concluded session #4!  I think most of us in the class have gotten the hang of things now.  I still look forward to class weekends (hopefully that won’t change).  At least for me, I’ve realized a few things:
1) There is always going to be more econ/accounting problems to do, econ/accounting textbook chapters to […]

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Tags: Term 1

Day 1 of class is now officially over!

May 20th, 2008 by RVD · 1 Comment

We had our first day of “real” class day today. I actually got up early enough and went to math camp this morning (hopefully I will be able to get up tomorrow). Professor Jack Siler was excellent. He really taught the math fundamentals first and refreshed my memory on concepts such as […]

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MGMT 621

April 29th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

I started reading for my MGMT 621 class over the weekend. It’s an interesting class because it’s about managing people. Like most students in the MBA for Executives program, I have many years of experience managing people. I started managing people way back in 1997 so it’s been 11 years already! […]

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Tags: Pre-Term 1