Wharton MBA for Executives

It is with a heavy heart that I report the first loss of our class 34 family. Ben Titera passed away last Saturday in Utah in an accident with his personal aircraft (powered parachute). Ben was an awesome person and one of the brightest members of our class.

I worked with Ben on one […]

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Happy New Year everyone! It’s a new year and the first year where I am an official Wharton alumnus. Everyone says that the first 2 years post MBA is key so I definitely plan to make some career changes in 2011. After 2 years, unfortunately the MBA does get a bit stale […]

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2/1. that’s the planned start date for my new company. i’m raising some angel investment right now. i’ve raised $600k so far and want to raise between $750k-$1m to get started.
2/1 is when i plan to start. 5/1 is when i plan to have our beta site live. […]

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Well, since there isn’t really a lot of school stuff to write about anymore, I suppose I can use this blog as an area to just write about stuff that comes to mind (things that I believe will be of at least some interest).
Anyway, the buzz for the past few weeks has been around “The […]

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Of course we are. Wharton is known for finance and wall street but we’re also very good at marketing, entrepreneurship, etc. In fact, one of our Professors Len Lodish was featured yesterday on a blog at forbes.com!
2 exits in 1 month? That’s better than most VCs!
click here to read: linky

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It’s time for recruiting season again! This is the time when all of you readers of this blog can actually come out and meet some current students, alumni, administrative staff, etc. We host the BEST receptions at the BEST locations so come on out if you’re interested in applying for our upcoming class.
We […]

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A few days ago, I read this article written by Wharton Professor Eric Clemons.
http://www.businessinsider.com/want-to-copy-groupon-read-this-first-2010-10
It’s about groupon, group buying, etc. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently because of the massive success of groupon and their reported $1.35b valuation. I’ve been thinking about them in the context of our strategy class that we […]

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We’re #1.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467440809287142.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_Careers_EXECUTIVEMBARANKINGS5_2
In 2008 (the last year that the WSJ came out with EMBA rankings), we were #2. It’s nice to move up to #1 where we belong.

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The 2011 rankings are out for undergrad. Grad school rankings are not available yet.
Congrats to Wharton undergrad for again being ranked the #1 undergraduate business school in the country!
Overall rankings have Penn at #5 (tied with Stanfurd): http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings
Wharton undergrad ranking #1: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-business

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This past weekend, there was a 6 man beach volleyball tournament in the South Bay (the one in SoCal, not NorCal). The 6 man tournament games were in Manahattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach.
Of course we had to have a team representing PENN so here were there Quakers! The team was dressed […]

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