Wharton School Soars in Financial Times Global MBA Ranking
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania recently came in fourth out of one hundred and fifty nine participants in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking for 2016.
This is the second year in a row that Wharton reached the top five, having had a third place ranking in 2014.
Wharton Professors Examine What Makes MBAs Happy
Professors Matthew Bidwell and Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania were recently acknowledged for their historic study on the happiness of entrepreneurs.
The team discovered, after surveying 11,000 MBA graduates over a span of years, that those who ended up running their own businesses ranked themselves happiest. A recent article by Martin Zwilling in Forbes noted the professors’ research, along with a list of tips for those entering the workplace as entrepreneurs.
Experts on Federal Policy and Real Estate Trends to Speak at Wharton
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will offer a seminar for business journalists on March 3, 2016 at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, at the firm’s New York City office. Continue reading…
Wharton Professor Explores Importance of Workplace Culture
Adam Grant, professor of management and psychology at the Wharton School of Business, recently wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times entitled, “The One Question You Should Ask About Every Job.”
Grant covers issues surrounding work, values and motivation for the paper.
Online Meets Offline for Today’s Consumer, Notes Wharton Professor
David Bell, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, recently presented research exploring the intersection between online and offline shopping during a talk at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.
Bell is a specialist in consumer behavior, specifically how this behavior plays out online.
5 Tips for Writing a Winning MBA Essay
Writing your MBA application essay can be stressful, and for some, frustrating. Particularly if you’ve been out of school for a while, the idea of writing an essay can throw you for a loop. You might not have any idea where to start or what to do. The good news is that writing your essay isn’t as hard as you think. We spoke with Eliot Ingram, a Clear Admit co-founder who spent more than a decade helping prospective MBA applicants gain acceptance to top business schools. According to Eliot, who is also an MBA graduate of University of Pennsylvania’s The Wharton School, you can write a winning essay every time. Continue reading…
