It’s been an exciting and busy two years for our newest Wharton executive MBA graduates. During the program, the East Coast class of 2013 celebrated the birth of 14 babies, four weddings, and one engagement between two classmates who met at Wharton. In the West Coast EMBA graduating class, there…Read More
During Orientation Week for Wharton’s West Coast Executive MBA students, participants tackled a unique team project while getting to know each other better. Working under the direction of Odyssey Teams, students built prosthetic hands that will be sent to developing countries. To better understand the need for the devices, each…Read More
This time two years ago, I was cramming and preparing for an unknown journey that we call WEMBA (Wharton’s EMBA Program). I thought that I was prepared for a two-year experience that only affected me two days every two weeks. But this program gave me more than I asked for.…Read More
I was particularly interested in attending the Wharton Economic Summit to see Austan Goolsbee, who was a keynote speaker. I worked with him for five years on President Obama’s campaign and in the White House where he was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Now, he is a…Read More
Dr. Alpana Verma-Alag recaps her Wharton MBA for Executives experience and journey, with special emphasis on Wharton finance programs. Dr. Verma-Alag is a physician turned entrepreneur. She is a 2013 graduate of the program and co-founder and CEO of Up-grade.me (http://up-grade.me), an early stage start-up focused on using big data, and…Read More
Attorney Andrew Jackson was working as a senior counsel at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA when he first started looking into executive MBA programs. With a goal of stepping into a senior management position in the future, he felt that earning an MBA would be the best way to develop…Read More
When Marla Driscoll, WG’01, was an EMBA student, not only was she commuting to Philadelphia from Houston, but she had two young kids and was on track to become a partner at Accenture. She didn’t have any time left in her schedule for activities outside of home, school, and work.…Read More
