IP: WHARTON SCHOOL PLANS SILICON VALLEY OUTPOST: Edupage, December 13, 2000

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Getting crorwed out there. CMU is planning an outpost at Moffet Field djf


>The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business next
>year will open a campus in San Francisco to allow business
>students to observe industries in the heart of the high-tech
>economy. Wharton West will provide an executive MBA program and
>will give students in Philadelphia an opportunity to spend a
>semester in Silicon Valley. The new campus will be linked
>electronically to the traditional campus. Many Wharton students
>head West after graduation, says the school's dean, Patrick
>Harker, who estimates that 30 percent of last year's MBA class
>went West. The West is an interesting example of economics for
>students to study, says Harker. "The Western region as a whole
>has a remarkable ability to reinvent itself," says Harker. "It's
>an incredibly entrepreneurial, energetic, and adaptive
>environment."
>(Investor's Business Daily, 12 December 2000)



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