TGIWF: Student Perspectives on the Wharton Weekend Experience

Dr. Emmy Graber

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’sRead More

Wharton EMBA Alumna Rings NASDAQ Bell in Celebration of IPO

Maxine Gowen, WG'02, founder of Trevena, Inc., celebrates her company's IPO by ringing the bell at NASDAQ.

When we last blogged about Wharton EMBA alumna Maxine Gowen, WG’02, she had recently launched Trevena, Inc., a privately-held pharmaceutical company located in King of Prussia, PA. On Jan. 31, 2014, Trevena celebrated its IPO on the NASDAQ Stock Market. To mark the occasion, Maxine, president and CEO, rang theRead More

Meet the Class Manager: Amy Myers

Class manager Amy Myers

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 aroundRead More

Meet the Class Manager: Diane Harvey

Diane Harvey

Wharton’s Executive MBA Program is supported by four class managers: two in Philadelphia and two in San Francisco. Diane Harvey joined Wharton’s EMBA staff in Philadelphia as a class manager in 1991. Read more about Diane and her experience at Wharton below. Q. What does a class manager do? WeRead 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

How an EMBA Transformed My Accounting Career

Andrea Funk, WG'01, CEO of Cambridge-Lee Industries

Wharton executive MBA alumna Andrea (“Andi”) Funk, WG’01, was recently named CEO of metals company Cambridge-Lee Industries in Reading, Penn. We caught up with Andi to learn more about her time at Wharton and what she describes as her “transformational” career journey. After working as a CPA for several years,Read More

Save the Date: Wharton EMBA Information Receptions Have Begun

Wharton Alumni Field Questions from Prospective Students

If you’re interested in learning more about Wharton’s EMBA program, we invite you to attend one of our MBA for Executives Information Receptions. We’re holding events around the country and online where you can get all of your questions answered and talk to alumni and students about their experiences inRead More