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
If you’re thinking about pursuing an executive MBA program and want to know what type of executive career management services Wharton offers, check out our Twitter feed. Posted by Steve Hernandez, senior associate director of career management services at Wharton | San Francisco, the Twitter feed provides weekly information about…Read More
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 all…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
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 in…Read More
After graduating from Wharton | San Francisco last year, Wharton EMBA alumnus Jess Kindler was promoted to general manager of PT Atlas Copco Nusantara. He’s based in Jakarta, Indonesia and was recently featured on the cover of Coal Asia Magazine. We caught up with him in Indonesia and asked about…Read More
Second-year Wharton EMBA student Arun Kumar recently invited venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to guest lecture to his classmates in San Francisco. We asked Arun, who is a research scientist at Medtronic in Minneapolis, Minn., to tell us about this event and the importance of guest speakers in the executive MBA…Read More
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
Before I came to Wharton, I was running my healthcare consulting practice in the Bay Area, where we did marketing and communications work and worked with celebrities and athletes on cause marketing projects. I always wanted to be in the sports field – and was tangentially working in that area…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
Angela Chen, a first-year student in the EMBA program at Wharton | San Francisco, works in corporate strategy and finance at Vantage Data Centers in Santa Clara, Calif. She recently shared her experiences bonding with her Wharton San Francisco classmates on a student-organized ski trip. Wharton’s EMBA program has been described…Read More
