TGIWF: Student Perspectives on the Wharton Weekend Experience

Dr. Emmy Graber

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’sRead More

Wharton EMBA Alumni Ventures Named “Startups to Watch”

Benjamin Young, WG’09, Cofounder of Nexercise.

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

Wharton EMBA Alumna Rings NASDAQ Bell in Celebration of IPO

Maxine Gowen, WG'02, founder of Trevena, Inc., celebrates her company's IPO by ringing the bell at NASDAQ.

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 theRead More

Meet the Class Manager: Amy Myers

Class manager Amy Myers

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 aroundRead 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

Meet the Class Manager: Diane Harvey

Diane Harvey

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? WeRead More

Wharton EMBA Student Applies New Lenses to Shipbuilding

Wharton EMBA Student Kristian Rokke

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 lotRead More