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

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.

ウォートン・スクール 締め切り、エッセイ 2013-2014

Penn Wharton Deadlines 2013-2014

The 2013-2014 Penn/Wharton deadlines are as follows:

Round 1

Deadline: October 1, 2013

Notification: December 17, 2013

Round 2

Deadline: January 7, 2014

Notification: March 25, 2014

Round 3

Deadline: March 27, 2014

Notification: May 6, 2014

Wharton has also announced its 2013-2014 MBA/MA-Lauder deadlines. The two deadlines are below:

Round 1

Deadline: October 1, 2013

Notification: December 17, 2013

Round 2

Deadline: January 7, 2014

Notification: March 25, 2014

All applications are due at 5:00 p.m. EST on the day of the deadline. For more information, see the Wharton admissions website. 

Essay Topics 2013-2014

Following up on this spring’s announcement of the application deadlines for the 2013-2014 admissions season, the Wharton adcom has also released its 2013-2014 essay topics.  Applicants this year must respond to two essay questions totaling 1,000 words, a decrease from last year.  The essay topics are listed below.

Required Questions:

1. What do you aspire to achieve, personally and professionally, through the Wharton MBA? (500 words)

2. Academic engagement is an important element of the Wharton MBA experience. How do you see yourself contributing to our learning community? (500 words)

Reapplicant Essay:

All reapplicants to Wharton are required to complete the Optional Essay.  Please use this space to explain how you have reflected on the previous decision on your application and to discuss any updates to your candidacy (e.g., changes in your professional life, additional coursework, extracurricular/volunteer engagements). You may also use this section to address any extenuating circumstances. (250 words)

Optional Essay:

If you feel there are extenuating circumstances of which the Committee should be aware, please explain them here (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, or questionable academic performance, significant weaknesses in your application). (250 words)

For more information, see the Wharton admissions 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

INSEAD, Wharton Extend Educational Alliance for 3 Years

INSEAD and the Wharton School will continue for another three years an educational alliance begun in 2001.

The Wharton INSEAD alliance allows  MBA and PhD students from both schools can participate in an exchange program that enables them to study on the schools’ four campuses in Fontainebleau, France; Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Philadelphia.

For more on the INSEAD/Wharton Alliance see here

Wharton Essay Topics 2012-2013

Wharton adcom has just released its 2012-2013 essay topics.  Applicants this year must respond to three essay questions totaling 1,400 words.  

Required Question:

How will Wharton MBA help you achieve your professional objectives? (400 words)

Respond to two of the following three questions:

1. Select a Wharton MBA course, co-curricular opportunity or extra-curricular engagement that you are interested in. Tell us why you chose this activity and how it connects to your interests. (500 words)

2. Imagine your work obligations for the afternoon were cancelled and you found yourself “work free” for three hours, what would you do? (500 words)

3. “Knowledge for Action draws upon the great qualities that have always been evident at Wharton: rigorous research, dynamic thinking, and thoughtful leadership.” – Thomas S. Robertson, Dean, The Wharton School

Tell us about a time when you put knowledge into action. (500 words)

Reapplicant Essay:

All reapplicants to Wharton are required to complete the Optional Essay. Please use this space to explain how you have reflected on the previous decision on your application and to discuss any updates to your candidacy (e.g., changes in your professional life, additional coursework, extracurricular/volunteer engagements). You may also use this section to address any extenuating circumstances. (250 words)

Optional Essay:

If you feel there are extenuating circumstances of which the Committee should be aware, please explain them here (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, or questionable academic performance, significant weaknesses in your application). (250 words)

Source: Wharton 

Wharton Deadlines 2012-2013

Here are the 2012-2013 Penn/Wharton Deadlines

Round 1
Deadline: October 1, 2012
Notification: December 20, 2012
Round 2
Deadline: January 3, 2013
Notification: March 26, 2013
Round 3
Deadline: March 2013 (exact date to be determined)
Notification: May 2013 (exact date to be determined)

Wharton has also announced its 2012-2013 MBA/MA-Lauder deadlines.

Round 1
Deadline: October 1, 2012
Notification: December 20, 2012
Round 2
Deadline: January 3, 2013
Notification: March 26, 2013
All applications are due at 5:00 p.m. EST on the day of the deadline.

Source: Wharton