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General Management Club tailgates with Sixers executives
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The Wharton General Management Club (WGMC) organized a "Q&A tailgate" with Comcast-Spectator executives prior to the Chicago Bulls - Philadelphia 76ers match-up on Saturday, March 19th. Comcast-Spectacor executives, including Chairman Ed Snider, fielded questions in the Wachovia Center's Hall of Fame room from nearly 80 club members.
Top Ten Application embellishments uncovered by the Admissions Verification Committee
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10. Candidate did work on a Wall Street, but the one in Peoria, Illinois. 9. "Running" listed as a hobby; after staking out local park for observation, committee determined applicant was more of a "jogger": Candidate dismissed. 8. "Responsible for 300% increase in revenue" in fact referred to income statement of strip club below place of employment.
A Wharton entrepreneur in residence: Jeff Harmer
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Through the Entrepreneurship at Wharton series, the Entrepreneurship Club is hoping to highlight some of the entrepreneurial dynamism in the MBA student body at Wharton by interviewing both former and aspiring entrepreneurs. DT: Can you tell us a little about your first business? JH: One of the first major companies that I started was a Furniture Import company called European Classics.
Chalk one up for charity: Cohorts "clash" to benefit ChairScholars
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Last Wednesday night, March 23rd, Pub was hopping. More than 90 students came to Pub for Clash of the Cohorts, a poker, billiards, and darts tournament sponsored by WGA Community Service to raise money for the ChairScholars Foundation. At the stroke of midnight, the Cohort C team of Neil Nag and Mile Milisavljevic were crowned darts champions after a ferocious battle for the bull's eye.
Hotelier Entrepreneur
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On Tuesday March 15, members of the Entrepreneurship Club gathered upstairs at the Black Sheep pub to listen to Laurent Vernhes, the Founder and CEO of Tablet Hotels (www.tablethotels.com). Founded in 1999, Tablet Hotels has rapidly become the definitive guide to unique hotels around the world for sophisticated travelers, or as the website refers to them, "global nomads".
Radically Radicchio
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During a brief trip to Italy several years ago, I happened upon a small town in the north on the way to the Swiss border. While completely unremarkable in many ways, the town housed a restaurant so delightful that it claims a permanent parking space in my mind - and not because the gnocchi is the best I've ever had.
Looking for a Square meal
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While researching a few restaurants on citysearch.com, I stumbled across a ranking of the top new restaurants in the US. Quickly, I glazed over it to see if any Philadelphia establishments were included, and to my surprise perched proudly in the top 10 was our own Washington Square.
The 2005 Wildmen hockey alumni weekend
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While Philadelphia is a city rich with history, culture, BYO's, steam vents, and car fires, for many of us, our memories of at Wharton will be dominated by hockey and drinking at Bonner's. It was precisely those two things, along with the promise of free chili, that brought over 20 Wharton alumni back to Philly on March 19 to participate in the Second Annual Wharton Wildmen Hockey Alumni Weekend.
Wharton claims 2nd IM basketball championship
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Defending Champion Second Years Suffer Heart-Breaking Defeat in Semi-finals by Up and Coming Wharton First Years Monday March 21st, Ian Patel entered the historic confines known as The Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania campus. He stood under the goal on the South end of the court, jumped up, and declared the baskets to be too low.
Another year, another birthday, time marches on
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Slowing metabolism, loss of innocence, eye cream, and the biological clock tick tock... Girls learn at an early age that neither society nor Mother Nature is kind when it comes to the subject of "getting old (or older)." Everywhere we turn - television, magazines, billboards, etc - we are inundated with information that suggests that aging is unbeautiful, unpleasant and unsexy.