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
Several Wharton executive MBA graduates are featured in the most recent issue of the Wharton Alumni Magazine. In “The 2014 Startups to Watch,” Nexercise cofounders Benjamin Young, WG’09, and Gregory Coleman, WG’09, and Graphene Frontiers cofounder Michael Patterson, WG’12, talk about how they launched their ventures during the EMBA program.…Read More
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 the…Read More
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 around…Read More
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 the…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
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
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
As CEO of Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, second-year Wharton EMBA student Kristian Rokke has been in the news quite a bit lately. We asked him to fill us in on what’s happening as well as share some of the highlights of his Wharton experiences. Aker Philadelphia Shipyard has received a lot…Read More
