First-year executive MBA students at both our San Francisco and Philadelphia campuses get to know Prof. Nicolaj Siggelkow when they take the strategy module of the core Management course. We asked Prof. Siggelkow to tell us more about teaching in Wharton’s EMBA program as well as his research and involvement…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
Prof. Michael Roberts’ research addresses questions in corporate finance. Broadly speaking, he looks at how firms make financing decisions and the implications of those decisions for firm value. In addition to his research, he teaches in Wharton’s East and West Coast EMBA program and serves as editor of the Journal…Read More
A professor in Wharton’s EMBA program, Ethan Mollick covers a lot of ground in his research on innovation and entrepreneurship. In a recent Harvard Business Review blog, he discusses middle managers’ surprisingly large impact on innovation while a blog for The New Yorker features his work on the use of…Read More
Tianlin Wang is a senior manager at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR and a member of the second-year class at Wharton | San Francisco. He helped organize his class’ International Seminar trip to China. I looked at organizing our International Seminar trip to China as a unique opportunity to make…Read More
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 Competitive…Read More
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 as…Read More
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
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
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
While you might not think of executive MBA courses as an opportunity to address real problems in real time at your own company, students taking Wharton's Management of People at Work are required to do just that. Working in learning teams, each group selects a real issue being faced by…Read More
