Big Choice in B-School Electives

Raynelle Grace

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 ofRead More

Getting the Inside Scoop on Wharton’s Executive MBA Curriculum

Wharton MBA Program for Executives Vice Dean Peggy Bishop Lane

In addition to information receptions around the world, prospective students  can learn about Wharton’s executive MBA program through frequent Webinars. In a recent Webinar on our curriculum, Vice Dean Peggy Bishop Lane discussed the EMBA program’s format and fielded questions from participants. In case you missed it, here’s an editedRead More

Wharton | San Francisco EMBA Students Explore Business and Culture in China

Second-year Wharton | San Francisco EMBA students visit Tencent during their class trip to China.

Second-year EMBA student Jessie Feng, an associate director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, helped organize the International Seminar trip to China for Wharton | San Francisco executive MBA students. I’m from China and organized a committee to pitch China as the destination for our International Seminar trip, which follows our core courses CompetitiveRead More

Long-Time Wharton EMBA Professor Discusses the “Forward-Looking CFO”

Wharton Prof. John Percival

Wharton executive MBA students have benefited from Prof. John R. Percival’s wealth of finance knowledge for more than 35 years. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he most recently received Wharton’s EMBA Core Teaching Award for Financial Analysis. In addition to teaching executive MBA students, he also has served asRead More

Wharton’s East-Coast EMBA Class Gets Pumped Up in Argentina

The East-Coast class visited a CrossFit gym during their international seminar trip to Argentina.

Jennifer Navarro, a second-year student in Wharton’s executive MBA program in Philadelphia, is director of government relations for a Virginia-based aerospace and defense company. For our international seminar trip, we had several choices: Argentina, Hong Kong, Singapore and India. While all of them sounded interesting, my class ultimately selected Argentina.Read More

Students Leave Unique Parting Gift in Rwanda

Wharton EMBA student Kristal Dehnad

Wharton San Francisco EMBA student Kristal Dehnad, director of the Charitable Trust Program at Stanford University, coauthored a blog for the Wharton Magazine about her experience in the Global Modular Course “Conflict, Leadership and Change: Lessons from Rwanda.” At the end of that course, Dehnad and her classmates left aRead More

Wharton West EMBA Students Win Bay Area MBA Portfolio Challenge

Congratulations to the Wharton West EMBA students who recently won the CFA Society of San Francisco’s first Bay Area MBA Portfolio Challenge! Competing teams traded and tracked a $1-million portfolio using the “Stock-Trak” virtual brokerage investment simulation platform. Investments were limited to U.S. traded equities, and the winning team wasRead More