April 15, 2008
Does the Wharton EMBA program accept entrepreneurs? The Admissions Committee gets this question regularly. The traditional line of thinking is that executive MBA programs are designed for Fortune 500 managers who are being groomed for the C-suite.
Wharton’s MBA Program for Executives does have many well-known global organizations that sponsor students, but if you look closely at the list of sponsoring organizations, you’ll notice that there are just as many small- to medium-sized companies. There’s a good chance that many of the companies whose names you don’t recognize were started by students attending the program.
We recently heard from alumnus Nathaniel Wice, WG’05, who appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” in January to talk about his New York City startup company miShare and its debut product, a patent-pending device that enables iPods to connect to each other and share music, videos, and photos. Watch the video. In fact, Barron's recently named miShare its "Gadget of the Week" (April 14 issue, p. 38).
Great going Nathaniel! (And check back from time to time to learn about other Wharton MBA Executive students or alumni who have taken the entrepreneurial path.)
