The Wharton School at UPENN

Intro

Wharton was the first collegiate business school in 1881.  Wharton has the largest business school faculty in the world with 250+ faculty members.  They are the most published, most quoted, and most actively engaged with global businesses and public policy; they know what businesses, governments, and international agencies need because they're working directly with these organizations every day.

Learning Style

Learning Teams

The business world requires people to work successfully in teams that depend on persuasive rather than positional leadership. The learning team is a laboratory meant to cultivate these leadership skills. A diverse group of five to six students is randomly assigned to collaborate on assignments throughout the first year.

Leadership Ventures

Wharton Leadership Ventures are a set of outdoor experiential leadership development opportunities for Wharton MBA students. The Ventures afford students the opportunity to engage in sets of hands on experiences for exploring and mastering the capabilities for effective individual and team leadership in business and beyond. Using an expeditionary format, teams of student participants are supported in partnership by world-class outfitters and Venture Fellows. The Ventures are intended to assist participants in improving their capacities to think strategically, communicate effectively, and act decisively. They are designed to foster forward thinking, a bias for action, risk awareness, and rapid decision-making.

Learning Lab

The Alfred P. West, Jr. Learning Lab uses technology in creating new learning materials, such as simulations, web-based exercises, interactive programs, and serious games.  The products developed here engage students in real-world exercises that challenge them to apply principles they've learned across multiple disciplines.

Leadership Development Coaching Series

This year long program is open to first year students and begins during the spring semester through the fall of the second year. The Leadership Development and Coaching Program  helps students develop their leadership skills in real time. This is accomplished through feedback and coaching. The essential elements of the program are: a self-assessment, a group dynamics workshop, professional coaching, an alumni mentor and leadership communications.

Electives

About 200 electives

Sample Classes
   1. Advanced Corporate Finance
   2. Corporate Development: Mergers & Acquisitions
   3. Corporate Valuation
   4. Entrepreneurship
   5. The Finance of Buyouts & Acquisitions
   6. Financial Derivatives
   7. Innovation, Change & Entrepreneurship
   8. Integrating Operations and Marketing
   9. Leading Effective Teams
  10. Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
  11. Negotiation and Dispute Resolution 
  12. Managerial Decision Making
  13. New Product Development
  14. Political Environment of the Multinational Firm
  15. Pricing Policy
  16. Private Equity in Emerging Markets
  17. Problems in Financial Reporting
  18. Real Estate Investment and Analysis
  19. Sports Business Management
  20. Strategy and Competitive Advantage
  21. Urban Real Estate Economics
  22. Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management
  23. Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

Majors:

    * Accounting
    * Business and Public Policy
    * Entrepreneurial Management
    * Environmental and Risk Management
    * Finance
    * Health Care Management
    * Human Resource and Organizational Management
    * Individualized Major
    * Information: Strategy and Economics
    * Insurance and Risk Management
    * Legal Studies and Business Ethics
    * Managing Electronic Commerce
    * Marketing
    * Marketing and Operations Management
    * Multinational Management
    * Operations and Information Management
    * Real Estate
    * Statistics
    * Strategic Management

• Address: 420 Jon M. Huntsman, Hall 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104
• Phone: +1-215-898-6183
• Email: mba.admissions@wharton.upenn.edu
• Website: www.wharton.upenn.edu