After almost a decade in the U.S. Navy, Lieutenant Charles Pell was starting to consider other career options besides the military. However, leaving active duty and then spending two years back in school full time to transition to the corporate world wasn’t that appealing. He didn’t want to put his…Read More
After years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, Stan Allen was looking to transition into the business world. However, he didn’t have a specific type of position in mind nor did he have a sense of what jobs were available. To make it even more challenging, the feedback…Read More
Igor Taber never thought too much about what his commute would be like to Wharton’s MBA for Executives Program in San Francisco. After all, his assignment for Intel Corp. in Moscow was scheduled to end soon after school began and he’d be living back in the Bay Area. But two…Read More
In times of stress, Miriam Leigh has always turned to cooking as an outlet. So it’s not that surprising that she began to do a lot more entertaining when she started Wharton’s MBA for Executives Program in San Francisco. “I felt like my life was thrown a bit into a…Read More
When Vicki Poponi was considering executive MBA programs, her primary goal was moving out of her operations position in a paper manufacturing plant – where her daily attire was jeans and steel-tip boots — and into a business management role. However, the chemical engineer knew that making this type of…Read More
When Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, was attending Wharton’s MBA for Executives Program, working for a nonprofit organization wasn’t part of his career plan. He had actually applied to Wharton’s program with the goal of transitioning from a marketing role at Pepsi into the field of healthcare…Read More
When Rachel Cervantes was thinking about applying to executive MBA programs, her biggest concern was how she would balance school with her job at Merck outside Philadelphia and two young children. “I thought about things like if my kids would notice that I was studying all the time and how it…Read More
For 20 years, Wharton Executive MBA alumnus Rick Rockelli had worked for leading Congressional-based publishers in the private sector. However, after reading an article in The Washington Post about the Close Up Foundation – an organization that helps students become informed and engaged citizens in the U.S. democracy — the…Read More
While the majority of students in Wharton’s MBA for Executives Program have around 10 years of work experience, some students arrive with two to three times that, bringing a particularly unique perspective to the classroom. To learn more about what it’s like to be an older student in our EMBA…Read More
The cover story of the of the Spring 2010 Wharton Magazine features Brian Murphy, WG'08, and the story of how his career has gone from energy trading to cake baking. The article, Baking Up a Miracle, explains the challenges Murphy faces doing business on a an island in the middle of…Read More
A civil engineer by training, Nichole Jordan wanted to gain more business knowledge in order to further her management career at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). However, with several promotions under her belt, she didn’t want to take two years off to pursue a full-time MBA — not to…Read More
In early January, Wharton offered its first ever course in India: “Innovation and the Indian Health Care Industry.” This three-day mini-course, held at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, covered the full range of health care issues in India – hospital management, medical tourism, pharmaceuticals, and more. Nine executive…Read More
Even though Anastasia Pozdniakova wasn’t admitted the first time she applied to Wharton’s East Coast Executive MBA Program due to her of lack of work experience, she knew it would one day be the right program for her. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania as a Wharton undergraduate student…Read More
When first-year Wharton EMBA student Frank Edwards, a group manager of IT Infrastructure at PepsiCo in Dallas, heard about the workshop on the Development of Web-based Services (OPIM 654) offered at Wharton | San Francisco he knew it was an opportunity he didn’t want to miss. Not only would the…Read More
For attorney Thomas Kaufman, there were many benefits from attending Wharton’s MBA for Executives Program, but on his list he includes something a bit unusual – cheese steaks. He explains that when he began the Wharton program in 1999, his middle child was a sophomore in Wharton’s undergraduate program so…Read More
