Wharton Stories: Competitions

Two people sit outside next to a wooden cabinet filled with various medicine boxes and bottles. One person wears a white headscarf and the other wears a dark headscarf.

Vanessa Folkerts, WG’20 and Jason Chen, WG’21, won for their proposed e-commerce marketplace serving pharmacies in rural Kenya.

Wharton MBA Team Wins First Prize in Global Business Case Competition

Question and answers during the WCAI Analytics Accelerator Summit

The Wharton Analytics Accelerator Summit offers students across the University a chance to team up with others to build models for real companies to solve business problems.

Wharton Analytics Accelerator Summit Gives Students an Opportunity to Apply Classroom Knowledge to Real Business Problems

Bianca Gonzalez and Janak Agarwal posing in front of a Wharton sign.

EMBA classmates Bianca Gonzalez, NU’08, WG’19, and Janak Agarwal, WG’19, pooled their experience and their resources and launched a venture to combat inefficiencies in the health care system.

Three Resources These Student Entrepreneurs Used to Accelerate Their Health Care Startup

A pattern of dark-screened iPhones with the logos of different apps on the screens.

By graduation, we had nailed it. We had a complete road map of the product and user experience. We had everything down from pricing to unit economics.

How a San Francisco Alumnus Launched and Sold a Mobile Marketplace App

EMBAs Aris, Ben and Greg standing in front of a black fence and lawn at the University of Buea.

“The EMBA program has given us a very unique opportunity to apply what we’ve learned during the past two years to make a difference in the development of Africa, starting with real estate.”

African Real Estate Development Venture Makes Big Impact in Cameroon