Paul Martin, president and founder of Intermountain Wind in Boulder, CO, decided to attend the Wharton executive MBA program in San Francisco because he saw it as a great opportunity to take a step back and gain a holistic view of business. With a background in finance and real estate…Read More
Wharton EMBA alumna Sally Huang, WG’15, went from being an employee at Microsoft to full-time entrepreneur during her time at Wharton San Francisco. We asked Sally, the founder and CEO of Roominnate, which provides 3d visualization for the interior design and real estate space, to tell us more about this…Read More
What is it really like to be an EMBA student at Wharton San Francisco? We asked first-year student Jory Lamb, president and founder of VistaVu Solutions in Calgary, Canada. Here’s what he said: On Impact: The best way to explain the impact of Wharton’s EMBA program is with the post-mortem…Read More
Zander Adell, WG’12, came to Wharton San Francisco’s EMBA program to help him transition from artist to entrepreneur. Now, he’s the founder and CEO of Doorman, which was recently featured on the ABC show Shark Tank. We asked Zander to tell us about how his Wharton education is helping him…Read More
Wharton San Francisco second-year EMBA student Rel Lavizzo-Mourey recently launched her luxury outerwear company called Silver Lining on Kickstarter. More than half-way to her fundraising goal, we asked Rel to tell us more about her “double bottom line” venture and how her Wharton experience is helping her build her business.…Read More
Sam Kherani brings a somewhat unique background to the MBA for Executives program at Wharton | San Francisco. At 57, he’s a native of Uganda and practicing dentist in Vancouver with big plans to launch a continuing education business in the dental field. As an entrepreneur and dentist, Sam…Read More
Put a bunch of executive MBA students together in a room and it doesn’t take long for great ideas to hatch. A good example is when several students from Washington, DC started talking about organizing meetups to enhance Wharton connections in the DC area. Identifying entrepreneurship as a popular topic among…Read More 
When it comes to entrepreneurship, many Wharton faculty are world-renowned thought leaders. A recent Knowledge@Wharton article featured their take on a survey of alumni in the San Francisco area about the future of the investor-startup ecosystem. Here’s an edited excerpt of that article: These days, technology start-ups want more than…Read More
Just two months after beginning the EMBA program at Wharton | San Francisco, Guru Hariharan started developing Boomerang Commerce Inc., a big data software-as-a-service company focused on pricing optimization. This week, the 2014 graduate is publicly launching his venture at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York City. We asked…Read More
Several Wharton executive MBA graduates are featured in the most recent issue of the Wharton Alumni Magazine. In “The 2014 Startups to Watch,” Nexercise cofounders Benjamin Young, WG’09, and Gregory Coleman, WG’09, and Graphene Frontiers cofounder Michael Patterson, WG’12, talk about how they launched their ventures during the EMBA program.…Read More
When we last blogged about Wharton EMBA alumna Maxine Gowen, WG’02, she had recently launched Trevena, Inc., a privately-held pharmaceutical company located in King of Prussia, PA. On Jan. 31, 2014, Trevena celebrated its IPO on the NASDAQ Stock Market. To mark the occasion, Maxine, president and CEO, rang the…Read More
Second-year Wharton EMBA student Amit Sood recently won the Wharton BizTech Industry Conference award for his startup ShareBlu. We recently caught up with Amit, who is senior director of the Collateral and Market Risk Division at a financial services firm in Jersey City, NJ, to hear more about how he…Read More
A professor in Wharton’s EMBA program, Ethan Mollick covers a lot of ground in his research on innovation and entrepreneurship. In a recent Harvard Business Review blog, he discusses middle managers’ surprisingly large impact on innovation while a blog for The New Yorker features his work on the use of…Read More
Wharton was a sponsor of this year’s Tech Crunch Disrupt Conference. Several executive MBA and full-time MBA students attended, along with alumni and staff. A few EMBA students share highlights from the event. Pav Dharwarkar, a first-year EMBA student in San Francisco, is founder of Cadenza Capital Management in Los…Read More
Wharton EMBA alumnus Clifton Anderson, WG08, worked for more than a decade in corporate America before launching his own consulting practice, Clifton Anderson Enterprises, in Los Angeles. He now works with corporate clients as well as entrepreneurs, providing services ranging from strategic consulting to leadership training. Clifton recently expanded his…Read More
