Topic: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Front Line Leadership that Builds GREAT Teams

So, a team is what you are hoping to build? But, what kind of team? A team who uses the academic approach to getting things done or one that brings real-world experience to the situation at hand? What criteria, then, do you use for choosing your teammates? How about trying "Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams?" This is also known as the "Preemptive Strike" measures.READ»

Clear and Present Danger

Bankruptcy, unemployment, terrorism, war, disease . . . Welcome to dangerous times. Here are four strategies for living well in a state of high alert.READ»

Innovation: Build or Buy?

During the tech boom of the late '90s, many large companies tried to buy smaller companies developing disruptive tachnologies -- rather than developing them themselves. Cisco, for example, acquired 70 companies between 1992 and 2000, ...READ»

The Ongoing Evolution of Revolution II

In response to a previous FC Now entry, reader and Wharton MBA student Ryan says, "The health care industry's inability to meet its customers' needs seems to present a lucrative opportunity. But how it would be implemented is beyond ...READ»

The Labor-Shortage Myth

When boomers start to retire, the theory goes, we'll see a job boom. Too bad it won't happen.READ»

How to Make Your Classroom Sizzle

Without energy and engagement, students don't want to learn, and teachers don't want to teach.READ»

MBA Isn't a Four-Letter Word

While some question the relevance of a B-school education in this era of distance learning and fast-track careers, the Wharton School's Robert E. Mittelstaedt Jr. argues for the sustaining value of an MBA.READ»

Harvard and Wharton Deans Try to Undermine MBA Rankings

These two top business schools will no longer provide BusinessWeek the opportunity to survey their graduating classes. Why? The deans basically say that rankings are crass and misleading. The real story, however, is quite ...READ»

Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

Carlo Brumat Carlo Brumat, currently dean of DUXX Graduate School of Business Leadership, in Monterrey, Mexico, worked for many years in industry both in the United States and in Europe -- first as a physicist and later as a ...READ»

The Pursuit of Happyness

If you think I made a typo in the heading of this blog, I guess you haven’t seen the very enjoyable movie with this name, starring Will Smith. It’s about a medical equipment salesworker who competes, against great odds, for a ...READ»

MBA Front Lines

Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America's most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.READ»

Generations

Yesterday I got interviewed by someone who was doing a presentation on work satisfaction for his professional association, a group of people in the travel industry. He asked me if I thought the Gen Ys (those young ones) would stay ...READ»

Masters of Disaster

We asked eight turnaround experts, from professors to investors to managers, who have brought companies back from the brink, to give us their recipe for rescue. Here's the 411 on the 911.READ»

No Risk, No Reward: Risk Profiles

The risk profiles and follow-up contact information for the characters mentioned in the No Risk, No Reward Rule Book.READ»

Chief Travel Scientist

Job Titles Of The Future: Danamichele Brennen O'BrienREAD»

Bargaining for Advantage

Life is a series of negotiations. This deal-making course helps attendees better prepare for a negotiation, solve real problems they're working on now, and improve their skills.READ»

Get Smart Part One: Admissions Report

Will a declining economy and the dotcom meltdown prompt a rush on the nation's best business schools? Admissions offices nationwide are standing by, waiting to see if NASDAQ troubles will prompt a deluge of MBA applications.READ»

Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

As the Internet changes the rules of the game, MBA curricula are evolving to keep up.READ»

Download Your Way to an MBA

It doesn't cost $40,000. It doesn't take two years. And you're never late to class.READ»

Why Ugly Sells

Designing universally attractive products sometimes means eschewing beauty.READ»

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Why the Wall Street Journal's MBA Survey Is Bogus

Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published its third annual ranking of business schools. With great fanfare and a separate 12-page section of the newspaper, the Journal declared that the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton ...READ»

Advertisers in Issue 27

2Bridge Software www.2bridge.com AltiGen www.altigen.com American Century www.americancentury.com American Electric Power www.aep.com American Express Financial Advisors www.americanexpress.com/advisors American Express Small Business ...READ»

Design a Solution

When design problems arise, hold back your fight-or-flight response and craft a deliberate, thoughtful plan.READ»

It Can’t Be That Easy, Right? PetMD Founders Sniff Out An Opportunity

Sitting around the kitchen table with your friends, one mentions that his dog is sick. Now you, being a dog lover, get concerned. You move the conversation over to the den, where your friends hover around a computer, searching online ...READ»

Toothbrushes, TiVo, and Twitter: Designing Great Relationships

If a company can't replicate the traditional exchange between maker and consumer, the relationship is destined to fail.READ»

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