After transitioning from a hospital setting to a fast-growing startup plastic surgery company, Dr. Walter Rooney came to Wharton San Francisco’s program to gain a more formal business education. However, a family tragedy changed his plans. When his sister was killed by a drunk driver a few months into the…Read More
The first week of Wharton’s EMBA program is always an exciting time for students. In addition to orientation and classes, they also participate in teambuilding activities to get to know each other. Having recently attended her first week at Wharton | San Francisco, we asked Ammi Tan, a project manager…Read More
Career impact doesn’t always mean a promotion or job change. Often, the impact comes from new ways of looking at business and the ability to identify opportunities and challenges. To learn more about how Wharton’s EMBA program impacts careers, we’re hosting a TGIWF (Thank Goodness it’s Wharton Friday) Webinar on…Read More
Even if math doesn’t come naturally for you, if you put in the time and effort to prepare, you can excel on the GMAT. Hob Brooks, WG’15, explains how he did it.…Read More
Part of the secret sauce of Wharton’s EMBA program is its team. Rhonda Frenkel’s official title is assistant to the vice dean and directors; however everyone refers to her as the “Mother Hen” of the Philadelphia office. Q. What does your role involve? I sit at the front desk and…Read More
Check out photos from the Wharton San Francisco Executive MBA Class of 2014 graduation ceremony, which took place on May 4, 2014, at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco. Congratulations to our new graduates!
In a new “Wharton Fridays” Webinar series, we’re asking students to talk about their experience on Wharton EMBA weekends. Our first session featured second-year Philadelphia students Dr. Emmy Graber, a dermatologist at Boston University School of Medicine, and Paul Garibian, a management and technology consultant in New York City. Here’s…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
Wharton’s Executive MBA Program is supported by four class managers. Amy Myers is one of our managers based in Philadelphia. You’ve worked at Wharton for more than 20 years. What roles have you had at the school and when did you join the EMBA program? I started at Wharton around…Read More
For the second year running, Wharton executive MBA students are bringing together a community of socially innovative thinkers who understand that what is good for society is also good for business by hosting the student-led Social Impact Conference at Wharton San Francisco on April 10, 2014. Major gaps still exist in the…Read More
Second-year Wharton | San Francisco EMBA student Zofia Wosinska Picker recently participated in a Global Modular Course (GMC) in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on Finance in the Middle East and North Africa. We asked Zofia, who is cofounder of HUNG3R in Denver, CO, to tell us about that experience. Here’s…Read More
Wharton’s Executive MBA Program is supported by four class managers. Meet Wharton San Francisco class manager Juana Droessler. What brought you to Wharton? I was enjoying some time off after retiring from SBC Communications (now AT&T), and I wasn’t thinking about my next career move. At the time, my two…Read More
While taking the course Macroeconomics and the Global Economic Environment, first-year executive MBA student Karen Chan thought her Wharton | San Francisco classmates might enjoy a tour of her organization, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. We asked Karen, a supervisory analyst, to tell us about that tour. Here’s…Read More
First-year Wharton | San Francisco EMBA student Pradeep Fernandes recently organized a unique tour for classmates at the Boeing Company, where he is director of product strategy. We asked him to tell us about the visit. Here’s what he said: Since I’ve been in Wharton’s EMBA program, I’ve noticed a…Read More
