If you’re interested in learning more about diversity at Wharton’s EMBA program, please join us for a special Diversity Night on Jan. 15, 2015 in Los Angeles. Alumni and students will share their experiences at Wharton during a panel discussion, and will be available to talk to prospective applicants afterward…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
Asking your organization for financial sponsorship to attend Wharton’s EMBA program isn’t always easy. After all, you’re not only seeking to have every other Friday off, but also a significant amount of resources. We asked Timothy van den Broek, a financially sponsored first-year Wharton San Francisco EMBA student, to tell…Read More
From the minute students arrive on campus in San Francisco or Philadelphia, their Wharton weekend is jam packed with classes and activities. Each weekend varies, but here is what a recent Wharton San Francisco weekend for first-year EMBA students looked like: Welcome Back: Friday, 8:00am While many students arrive on…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
Wharton EMBA students have many choices when it comes to b-school electives. They can major in a particular area or they can explore a diversity of subjects. They also can choose to take electives at either our Philadelphia or San Francisco campus. Second-year executive MBA student Raynelle Grace, president of…Read More
EMBA student veteran and Naval Academy graduate Jeffrey Mund has been busy networking with his new classmates at Wharton. In addition to his role as manager of Maryland, Delaware and BWI Airport for Deutsche Post DHL, he has connected fellow veterans and active duty military students on the Philadelphia and San…Read More
Second-year EMBA student Jessica Ross, managing director of cost transformation at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals in Oakland, CA, is looking forward to our inaugural Diversity Night at Wharton San Francisco on Nov. 20. In addition to serving as a panelist with other students and alumni, she says she’s…Read More
Wharton’s EMBA program has a long tradition of organizing international class trips. As second-year Philadelphia student David Trecker explains, “It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to appreciate – with 60 classmates– a foreign culture through the lenses of business, government and social leaders.” David, who is director of market and…Read More
Dawn Graham, who joined our staff last winter, brings a lot of experience to the table as career management director of the executive MBA program in Philadelphia. Having recently organized our first EMBA Career Day on the East Coast (her counterpart at Wharton | San Francisco, Steve Hernandez, organized the…Read More
Wharton | San Francisco MBA for executives student Jessica Ross recently returned from her International Trip to South Africa. We asked the managing director of cost transformation at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals to tell us more about her experience on the trip. Here’s what she said: We were…Read More
This year, second-year executive MBA students had four options for their International Trip: Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and San Francisco. Raj Bharti, a student at Wharton | San Francisco and managing principal of Collaborate Consulting in Seattle, WA, said his international trip to Spain was “amazing.” Having recently returned…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 
What kind of career impact will an executive MBA have? Is it worth the investment of time and money? What’s it really like to be an EMBA student at Wharton? Since these are important questions for prospective students, we recently held a TGIWF (Thank Goodness Its Wharton Friday) webinar on…Read More 
Kristal Dehnad juggled a lot during her time at WhartonSan Francisco. In addition to being promoted from director of charitable trusts to managing director of partner relations and programs at Stanford University, she also co-chaired Wharton’s Social Impact Conference and took a Global Modular Course on Conflict, Leadership and Change in Rwanda.…Read More 
