In case you missed it, Vice Dean Peggy Bishop Lane was recently interviewed in Poets & Quants for Executives. In the article, Peggy covers a variety of topics including the latest developments in our East and West Coast EMBA programs, why the EMBA degree could become the “degree of choice,”…Read More
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
Rana Bader Matly, international development officer for the Mayo Clinic based in San Francisco, says that the amount of information and knowledge gained at Wharton is transformative. She explains that “it’s like a reality check because you start seeing things you didn’t see before.” We asked Rana to tell us…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
Most Philadelphia EMBA students meet Prof. Patti Williams in their first core Marketing course, and San Francisco students may meet her at West Coast information receptions. We recently asked Prof. Williams to tell us more about her course and experiences teaching EMBA students. What do you want students to get…Read More
When Raj Bharti ( @Raj_Bharti ), managing principal of Collaborate Consulting in Seattle, WA, was researching executive MBA programs, he was particularly interested in gaining international exposure and broadening his global perspective. At Wharton San Francisco, he found that the ability to customize his education allowed him to participate in multiple…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
A lot of serious thought and financial preparation go into the decision to sponsor yourself in Wharton’s EMBA program. However, it often results in significant career impact for students who choose that path. Alumna Marla Bleavins, WG’12, is a good example. She was recently named deputy executive director and chief…Read More
When Wharton San Francisco EMBA student Greg Vaisberg came to Philadelphia for a class session during his first term, he enjoyed being on the East Coast campus so much that he decided to come back. We asked him to tell us more about the experience of taking electives on both…Read More
When Salima Remtulla, COO of Global Private Investing at D. E. Shaw & Company, L.P., came to Wharton’s executive MBA program in Philadelphia, her goals were to expand her network and explore synergies between her trifecta of passions in finance, hospitality, and end-of-life care. By taking electives in San Francisco,…Read More
After working in private practice as a physician for 10 years, Dr. Josue Leon started to become more involved with financial and managerial decisions that medical school didn’t prepare him for. “Financial statements might as well have been written in Chinese or Russian because I had no idea what I…Read More
Global Modular Courses (GMC) are extremely popular among Wharton EMBA students not only for their deep dives into global business issues, but also for the ability to get to know students in other Wharton programs. Wharton San Francisco first-year student Jeni Incontro, solutions manager at Vitech Systems Group in Los…Read More
Mariam Umar, director of business operations and strategic planning at Synaptics in San Jose, came to Wharton to reinvent herself. She wanted to bridge the skills gap between her current position and corporate stewardship, and her goal was to develop her own framework for solving strategic problems of leading-edge technology…Read More