Steve Hernandez, the director of career management for Wharton’s MBA Program for Executives on the West Coast, shares about the latest career resources at Wharton San Francisco.
What’s New in Career Management at Wharton San Francisco?
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Vice Dean Lane Talks to Poets and Quants about what’s New in the EMBA Program
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
Wharton Gives San Francisco Student “30,000-Foot View” of Business
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
International Development Officer Shares Wharton San Francisco Experience
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 San Francisco Alumna Makes Leap to Launch Startup
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
Congratulations to Our Newest Wharton EMBA Graduates!
It's graduation season and we wish all the best to our recent graduates! The East Coast class of 2015 graduated May 16 with a ceremony on the Penn campus, featuring keynote speaker David Pottruck, C'70, WG'72, chairman of High Tower Advisors. The West Coast class of 2015 graduated May 3…Read More Wharton Prof. Patti Williams Talks Marketing
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
Graduating San Francisco Student Reflects on International Exposure
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
Calgary Entrepreneur Shares his Wharton San Francisco Experience
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
WEMBA Alumna Reflects on Decision to Self-Sponsor
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
Wharton San Francisco Student Embraces Both Coasts
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
Philadelphia Student Expands Network with Electives in San Francisco
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
How a Physician Benefited From an Executive MBA After Medical School
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
New Perspectives Gained on Global Modular Course in Dubai
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
Wharton EMBA Student Shares a Story of Reinvention
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