Mike Gipe, WG’05, has provided academic support for EMBA students at the San Francisco campus for nearly a decade, and he’s seen students from all different backgrounds excel in the program. He’s the go-to for those who want a little extra help in the quantitative areas.…Read More
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
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
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? We…Read More
Second-year Wharton EMBA student Amit Sood recently won the Wharton BizTech Industry Conference award for his startup ShareBlu. We recently caught up with Amit, who is senior director of the Collateral and Market Risk Division at a financial services firm in Jersey City, NJ, to hear more about how he…Read More
Second-year Wharton | San Francisco EMBA student Yingying Huang holds a PhD in Chemistry and is strategic marketing manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific in San Jose, CA. She recently attended a Wharton women’s event featuring alumna Beth Axelrod, W’84, senior vice president of human resources at eBay. We asked her…Read More
Before coming to Wharton, Tran Hang, WG’10, worked at Google. While a student in Wharton’s EMBA program in San Francisco, she took on a role to oversee sales operations for the company’s travel industry practice. After graduating from Wharton, she became Google’s head of travel industry, overseeing more holistically all…Read More
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 a…Read More
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 in…Read More
Wharton EMBA Professor Stew Friedman is renowned for his research on issues related to work-life balance and leadership. His award-winning book, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life, describes the Total Leadership course he teaches, which is designed to increase participants’ leadership capacity and performance in all…Read More
After graduating from Wharton | San Francisco last year, Wharton EMBA alumnus Jess Kindler was promoted to general manager of PT Atlas Copco Nusantara. He’s based in Jakarta, Indonesia and was recently featured on the cover of Coal Asia Magazine. We caught up with him in Indonesia and asked about…Read More
