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China's Silk Road continues to thrive
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With an abundant pool of human resources, rapidly improving technology, and a growing consumer base, China is an international force with enormous potential. The theme "Global Crossings: Paving the New Silk Road" resonated with the 400 business executives, professionals, academics, experts, and students across the nation who converged at the second annual Wharton China Business Forum last Saturday.
Whartones weave a tapestry
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"Ba ba ba ba day o" Tamara Paton (WG'04) scats as The Whartones perform "Tuxedo Junction" (by Manhattan Transfer), launching the annual spring concert. When asked how she came up with the string of scat, Tamara (also known as the "Scat-woman", according to an inside source) confessed that she drew inspiration from the random unpredictability of the stock markets.
Wharton grabs top spot in regional VC competition
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On the evening of Thursday March 18, while most Wharton MBA students were grabbing beer and pizza at Pub and celebrating St. Patrick's Day with the Rugby team at Tragos, five First Year MBA students-Martina Alisuag (filling in for Tim deGavre who was sidelined with an ice hockey injury), Gurprit Chandhoke, Samer Hakoura, Jonathan Lin and Sean Seton-Rogers-were getting ready for a long night of reading and dissecting business plans.
Crunch time: Class gift organizers worried as deadline approaches
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t's a familiar sight - each day from Monday through Thursday (9:30 AM - 4:30 PM), student volunteers man the desks at the 2nd Floor MBA Café hoping to ensure that this year's Class Gift matches or exceeds the astronomical 98% participation from last year. To date, only 23% of students have participated.
Job market looking up for Wharton MBAs
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The job market is looking up for Wharton MBAs! This was the theme of a recent report by the Wall Street Journal and this theme is reflected in PLANS statistics being collected by MBA Career Management. The number of second year Wharton MBAs who have accepted at least one job offer has increased by more than 10% from this time last year.
WGA unveils new logo
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The Wharton Graduate Association is pleased to unveil its new logo, which prominently displays Jon M. Huntsman Hall and the University of Pennsylvania colors and acts as a symbol of the Wharton community and its legacy. The development of the new logo began over a year ago, in an effort to create a professional mark to identify the wide variety of student activities that the WGA supports.
WJ allocates advertising revenue suplus
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For the second time this academic year, The Wharton Journal Revenue Committee met to allocate excess advertising revenue to MBA student initiatives in need of funding. This past Tuesday, the new 5-person committee, consisting of WGA President, Peter Kim, WGA Treasurer, Justin Pallari, Wharton Journal Editors-in-Chief, Jeff Klein and Ryan Miller and Wharton Journal Publisher, Jamee Leffler, continued this six-year tradition of Wharton community giving.
Dr. Deepak Chopra to keynote Wharton leadership venture
Wharton Leadership Ventures program: Leadership Venture on Self-Awareness: Leading from Within on April 9, 2004, featuring Dr. Deepak Chopra as the keynote speaker. The recognition of self-awareness as the core of effective leadership has transformed individuals, business and institutions globally: William George, Chairman and former CEO of Medtronic, has used meditation to cultivate self-awareness for over 20 years; the U.