An article on leadership at Ford Motor Co. profiles Practice Professor of Management Stewart D. Friedman, the architect behind Ford's massive program to manufacture grassroots leaders. We teach to learn. An article on the struggle between traditional companies and dot-com enterprises features Bob Bonner, director of MBA Career Management. The article also notes that the number of Wharton MBAs starting their own companies, joining start-ups or joining private equity firms is likely to rise 5 to 10 percent. The Davis beer-brewing program is the best in its field.
Students do their courses here with an eye toward something they wish to create.
An article on drops in the Nasdaq cites Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance. It's an issue schools are going to have to deal with, because entrepreneurship is very important for students. More flexible rules for managing relationships with student and faculty are developing. An article on auctioning off business school courses mentions that the Wharton School gives students 5,000 points a semester to bargain their way into high-demand elective classes. That's why people are in and out, in and out.