EMBA Admissions Interview Questions & Answers

Bernie Birt

Many West Coast students know Bernie Birt as the executive director of the MBA Program for Executives in San Francisco. This isn’t surprising, as she interviewed many of them during the admissions process. However, in addition to being an admissions committee member, she’s also the COO of Wharton San Francisco.Read More

Wharton San Francisco Conference to Fill Gap in Social Impact

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 theRead More

Meet the Class Manager: Juana Droessler

Wharton | San Francisco class manager Juana Droessler

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 twoRead More

Wharton | San Francisco EMBA Students Get VIP Tour at Boeing

Wharton | San Francisco EMBA Students at Boeing

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 aRead 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

Google’s Head of Travel Industry Reflects on Her Wharton Experience

Wharton | San Francisco EMBA alumna Tran Hang, WG'10

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 allRead 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

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