When I ask my Wharton MBA students to name companies that are truly customer-centric, Amazon is always near the top of the list.
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Raj Rajaratnam, a Wharton MBA, successful hedge fund manager, billionaire and philanthropist is heading to prison for 11 years on charges related to insider trading.
Howard Kaufold, vice dean of the Wharton MBA for Executives program, says a typical EMBA student would be an engineer in their late 20s or early 30s.
Two 2010 Wharton MBA graduates, Kristina Anderson and Amy Cooper, co-founded Chattersource because when they arrived in Philadelphia, they could not find a good place to get a haircut, were not sure where to rent an apartment, and did not know which restaurants in town would best suit their palates.
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Nina has an MBA from Wharton School of Business, an MA focused in Creative Writing from Dartmouth, and a BBA from University of Texas.
This past fall, Wharton launched a Semester in San Francisco that allowed 55 MBA students to study at the Wharton San Francisco campus.
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He also earned an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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He started his career as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert and received an MBA from The Wharton School.
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After serving in the army for two years, Lynch eventually graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.
Goel was a 1983 graduate (MBA) of the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a classmate of Raj Rajaratnam.
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In the Financial Times 2006 MBA rankings, graduates of the top-placed Wharton school reported salary increases of 139 per cent in the period from starting their course until three years after graduation.
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school, which has topped the new Financial Times's Global MBA rankings for another year, has just highlighted a subject that companies need to be increasingly aware of: religion in the workplace.
The British Treasury has its own list of the top 50 full-time MBA programs from around the world, with Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and IMD leading the way.
Before Zynga, Wharton grad Pincus did the requisite stint on Wall Street and worked in venture capital before earning an MBA from Harvard.
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