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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Negotiations

December 19th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

I think Negotiations is the best class at Wharton. It’s certainly a lot of fun since you do a lot of hands on negotiations with classmates. However, it is a class where you really see the true colors of a lot of classmates (mostly bad).

As much as I tried to take the class […]

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A critique of this site…

December 14th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

Someone wrote up an interesting critique of this site. I guess most of their comments are fair.
http://www.mbapersonalstatement.com/critique-of-wharton-mba-for-executives/

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Term 5 done…ONE MORE TERM!

December 14th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

wow, term 5 is over. This means that we’re down to our last term!
For me it’s not really over. I took 3 classes and only 1 of them is truly over. I still have to write my final paper for entrepreneurship class and I still have to take the final for investment […]

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I’m famous…

November 24th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

The official Wharton blog is at http://www.whartonexecutivemba.com/whartonexecutivemba_blog/
I have an RSS feed on the left side of this site that shows the latest blog posts.
A few weeks ago there was a post about our International trip. Our very own Suki Toguchi was quoted in the article: http://www.whartonexecutivemba.com/whartonexecutivemba_blog/2009/11/wharton-emba-students-talk-about-international-trips-to-spain-and-singapore.html
Today, they wrote about me. I […]

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Changing jobs…

November 4th, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

I’ve heard many times that it’s not a good idea to change jobs while you’re in the program. I believe that is good but obvious advice. Of course it’s not a good idea to change jobs.
But sometimes (especially in this economy), you don’t actually have much of a choice. If you get […]

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Balloon Boy

October 21st, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

I actually try to keep this blog free of mass media clutter…discussions around useless media news such as Jon/Kate + 8, Octomom, Kayne West, etc. But last week we had a somewhat interesting story on a slow news day that has some relevance to our Wharton classes this term. I will even say […]

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does it get easier?

October 19th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

One question that I constantly ask myself is: “Does it get easier?”
I thought term 1 was tough. We had an accounting midterm before I was settled in. The FAP took up a ton of time. There was a lot of reading and studying to do. I also had to get into […]

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GCP

October 15th, 2009 by RVD · 3 Comments

TheFink wrote a wondering insight into GCP a few months ago (see here: http://www.whartonblog.com/?s=gcp. As I wrote in one of the comments, I have joined a GCP team.
A couple of days ago we heard that we got the Spain Virtual Animations project! Our top choice was the Chile VinoLux project. This is […]

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server move…

October 15th, 2009 by RVD · No Comments

Hi all, the lack of posting was due to a recent server move. I moved whartonblog over to a new server that should work fairly well. The result was that I couldn’t post while I was working on the move. It looks like it’s working now though so I should be back […]

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Pictures from Spain

September 21st, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

I got around to processing my pictures so here are some pictures from Spain.

Madrid

Madrid

Plaza Mayor

Jay Nanduri in front of the Toledo train station

Ben and John taking a break before the Indra presentation

Toledo up on a hill

Touring the Inditex (Zara) distribution center

Auditorium at Santander

Group shot at Real Madrid Futbol stadium

A toast…to Real Madrid

Stadium

View of the stadium […]

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