MBA ニュース： ウォートン・スクール Expands its Online MBA

Wharton School has expanded its online foundational MBA courses to now include a Business Foundations Specialization series that adds a capstone project in which participants can apply what they learn to help solve real-world business issues, the school announced last week. 

Wharton will invite top performers in the online series to apply to one of the school’s graduate programs, waiving the application fee, and will award up to five $20,000 scholarships to applicants who are admitted.

As with the initial four courses in Wharton’s Foundation Series – Accounting, Finance, Marketing and Operations Management – the new Capstone Project component is available through online education platform Coursera. Wharton was one of the first leading business schools to present the building blocks of its MBA curriculum in online form to a world audience.

The  Business Foundations Specialization series combines all four foundation courses, taught by Wharton faculty, with the newly added project component and confers a Coursera Verified Certificate for participants who complete the entire series. 

As part of the Capstone Project, participants work with industry partners to help solve a specific real-world problem. Snapdeal and Shazam have entered into initial partnerships with Wharton to provide Capstone project topics.

The cost of the entire series with a Verified Certificate is $595.

The top 50 performers each year in the Business Foundations Specialization series will be eligible to apply to one of Wharton’s graduate business programs without paying an application fee. Wharton will also award $20,000 scholarships to up to five students admitted to the MBA program who have excelled in the Specialization series in the previous 12 months.

For more information see Wharton Online

MBA ニュース : ウォートン・スクール Entrepreneur Top Class 2016!

Nadine Kavanaugh, Associate Director, Wharton Entrepreneurship says the Class of 2016 is already incredibly entrepreneurial.

• 5% of the class has prior entrepreneurship experience. 
• 82 students in the Class of 2016 have held significant roles at startups—that’s up from just over 30 last year. So we know they’ve got the startup bug.
• 23% (203 students, more than double the number in last year’s class) plan to start their own company after Wharton.

For more information, please see The Very Entrepreneurial Class of 2016

MBA 留学 ニュース: ウォートン・スクール 2014-15 MBA 締め切り

         

              Wharton School has released its deadlines for the 2014-15 application season!

For more information please see Wharton's Application Page.

New Dean at ウォートン・スクール/ Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Political economist and former faculty member Geoffrey Garrett will be the next dean of Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania on July 1st, succeeding outgoing Dean Thomas Robertson, who has led the school since 2007.

Garrett is currently dean and professor of business in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) where he oversaw more than 350 faculty and researchers, eight academic departments, nine research centers and a student body of more than 12,000.

Prior to his tenure at UNSW, Garret served as dean of the Business School at the University of Sydney. He also served as president of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, faculty member at the University of Southern California; vice provost and dean of the UCLA International Institute; director of the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy and the Ethics, Politics and Economics program at Yale; and as a faculty member at Wharton, Oxford and Stanford universities.

Garret is an expert on globalization and believes that, together with technological change, it is poised to transform business education.

For more information, please see the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania website.

Wharton School, Lauder Institute Offer Dual-Degree Global Program for Multilingual Students

The University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute, together with the Wharton School, will train MBA/MAs in politics, economics, business and culture as part of a new dual-degree Global Program, according to Wharton Magazine.

The new Global Program is like a “startup” within the Lauder Institute, according to Wharton Magazine. Students will study still-evolving aspects of the global political and economic system, such as international capital flows, the rise of sovereign wealth funds and China’s emerging dominance.

Professor Regina Abrami will direct the new program, which admitted its first three students as part of Round 1 of Wharton’s MBA admissions. With Round 2 now underway, Abrami hopes for six to eight students to make up the first Global Program class, which will begin in May 2013.

Abrami came to Wharton and Lauder from Harvard Business School (HBS) and is now a senior lecturer in the political science department and a senior fellow in the management department as well as director of the new Global Program. At HBS, she also helped launch globally-focused initiatives, including a “Doing Business in China” elective course and HBS’s global immersion programming, through which 400 students participate in 11 country-specific immersions during the winter session.

The Global Program will include classes on intercultural negotiations, international trade and the international legal order, which will take the place of language classes Lauder students take as part of that school’s other tracks. Global Program students must be proficient in two languages.

Source: Wharton Magazine

BusinessWeek Reports Widening Gender MBA Wage Gap

Female graduates from top MBA programs average 93% of their male classmates down from 98% cents in 2002 according to BusinessWeek’s latest biennial survey of MBA graduates. 

Female graduates from the class of 2012 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, for example, earned 86% of male wages, and those at Stanford Graduate School of Business earned 79% percent, Bloomberg BW reported.

2010 census data showed the largest gender pay gaps to be among insurance agents, personal advisors and securities sales agents. Female MBAs were paid, on average, $4,600 less in their first jobs than men, and that the gap widens to $30,000 by mid-career.

Source: BusinessWeek