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Cheney, Huntsman dedicate new Wharton home
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On October 25, 2002, Dean Patrick Harker, President Judith Rodin and Jon Huntsman dedicated Huntsman Hall under leaden skies. Harker and Rodin invoked Penn's leaders of the past in looking to the future. Huntsman struck a deeply humble tone and called for greater ethics in business.
Loan assistance changes to affect Class of 2005
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Last Friday, Wharton announced changes to its loan assistance program for international students to its Board of Governors. The changes come amidst a faltering world economy and its associated deterioration in credit quality. Not coincidentally, like the bad news facing some of the world's financial institutions, Wharton's student default rate has climbed over the last several years, from less than 2% to a repeated 5% for the classes of 2000 and 2001.
Wittenberg revs up Leadership Program
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Evan Wittenberg WG'02 is only a few months into his tenure as the new Director of Wharton's Leadership Program, but his impact has already been felt across campus. As co-head of the Wharton Leadership Ventures, he has helped move the sign-up process to the auction, and expanded the program by adding a second venture to Quantico in the fall of next year.
Introducing the First Ever Class of Career Fellows
By MBA Career Management Staff
The MBA Career Management Office has just completed the selection process for the first ever class of Career Fellows. The Career Fellows program was established to institutionalize student involvement in the MBA Career Management Office. Career Fellows will help the MBACM organization gain a better understanding of student career needs and allow the organization to benefit from their ability to apply their business education and experience to a real organization.
Adrian Slywotzky on profiting out of problems
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The most recent Wharton Leadership Lecture, held on October 28th , featured Adrian Slywotzky, Vice President and Board Member of Mercer Management Consulting. Mr. Slywotzky is the author of The Art of Profitability (2002), Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition, and co-author of the bestseller The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits, which was nominated as one of the Top 10 Business Books of 1998 by Business Week.
Saving the Wharton network, one virus at a time
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On a balmy mid-October day as I attempted to wade through the mountain of e-mails that Whartonites are subjected to on a daily basis, I noticed a weird looking e-mail from a Rich Baker of Baker Books instructing his assistant Phyl to mail two copies of a Trobaugh title to a Joe Durepos.
Control of U.S. Senate comes down to the wire
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We all know that politicians and pundits in our nation's capital don't agree on a lot. But there's one thing most Washington, DC insiders can agree on: that it is impossible to predict which party, Democrats or Republicans, will control the closely divided United States Senate after next Tuesday's elections.
Wharton intramural playoff race thickens
Second year recap: Fun'n'Gun 28 – Ando's Commandos 20 In a rematch pitting the remnants from the 2001 cohort football championship, Team Fun'N'Gun put an exclamation point on an undefeated regular season, with a nail biting 28-20 victory over Ando's Commandos.
Recruiting Tip of the Week
"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur Do some research. Know about the company you're interviewing with. I can hear the collective "Duh" coming from all of you, but believe it or not, if you want to get a leg up over the bottom of the Wharton recruiting barrel, all you need to do is run a company search on Factiva, do some reading and then go into the interview.