This week, the Black Wharton Undergraduate Association hosted their 32nd annual Howard E. Mitchell Memorial Conference, which was established in honor of Wharton’s second tenured black professor.…Read More
Ten steps to landing the perfect summer internship (outside of on-campus recruiting/OCR): Perfect your résumé and cover letter. Career Services is here for you. Read samples, write multiple drafts, and get feedback. Go to Career Services workshops. They hold multiple workshops a month on different internship-search strategies, and they serve…Read More
This may sound cheesy, but I love being at Wharton and Penn, and wouldn’t want to dedicate an entire semester away to study abroad (although many of my friends do!). Luckily though, there are many opportunities available if, like me, you do love to travel and want to spend time…Read More
Towards the end of the last school year, I still hadn’t solidified my plans for the summer and wasn’t quite sure exactly what I wanted to do over the break. To be honest, I hadn’t given much thought to my summer plans. During that semester, I went on a trek…Read More
When I tell people that I’ll be the first woman working on my full-time-job team, their first reaction is usually surprise. “How is that possible? How were you able to do that?” Let me preface this by saying what I have to say is not a social commentary on gender…Read More
Last fall, I received an email from Penn Career Services that informed me about “externships.” I had no clue what an externship was as opposed to an internship, so I decided to look into it. An externship is a learning opportunity that gives one a short, practical experience in a…Read More
For most of my undergraduate career as a Wharton student, I followed a pretty traditional path. I became a dedicated member of the Wharton Undergraduate Consulting Club (WUCC), looked for internships in finance and consulting, and spent hours coming up with seemingly plausible reasons why I wanted to go into…Read More
Wharton is known for being a global school; from the students to the faculty to the classes and extracurriculars, Wharton adds an international flavor to the concept of business. In looking back on my four years here, I can confidently say that the global perspective given to me by my…Read More
As a freshman searching for summer internships, I knew I wanted to do something that would allow me to explore a field that I was interested in but did not have much exposure to at Penn. For me, that internship was in public policy. I have always been interested in…Read More
I sit in front of my black Ikea desk with my laptop open and a few papers scattered over the surface. My free Cosi coffee in one corner and my water bottle in the other. Black, orange and white walls, desks, chairs, wastebaskets, mugs. Themed, branded, and beautiful. I love…Read More
I spent the summer participating in the Wharton Global Research Internship Program (GRIP), conducting research across India and China. While exploring the startup ecosystems in these countries, I found something I was not looking for – a massive Wharton global network. I now marvel at the sheer number of responses I received from the alumni…Read More
Mattress Pad? Check. Shower caddy? Check. Favorite stuffed animal? Check. Clothes? Uh oh. Sometimes clothes really do make the man, and they are an integral part of making a first impression professionally or otherwise. And like always, as the time for the transition to college comes around, so does the…Read More 
Many students dread having to leave the bastion of academia that is the University of Pennsylvania and enter the real world of salaries, early bedtimes, and responsibility. Yes, our time here at Wharton must come to an end, and we must find a job after college. Luckily, the recruitment process…Read More
A personal belief of mine is that you can learn just as much, if not more, outside of the classroom than inside of it. In other words, there is so much to learn from having experiences that take you beyond sitting in class. Wharton certainly does a great job of…Read More
When you think “Wharton” you might not immediately think of retail, but more and more Wharton grads are choosing to leverage their Wharton education in the retailing industry. There is a secondary undergraduate concentration in retailing, consisting of marketing, operations, and design components, designed to provide even more depth and…Read More
Mentorship programs are not necessarily the first things you consider when choosing a college, but I’ve found that Wharton’s emphasis on mentorship has been of the most beneficial aspects of the transition away from home. Before even starting the school year, my cohort director, Christina, called each incoming freshman in…Read More
Posted by Grayson Sessa At some point during the year, a Wharton student’s attention is going to turn to the ultimate question: What am I going to spend the summer doing? Fixating on this question your first semester is not worth it, since there will be many opportunities to find…Read More 
Over Fall Break, I went on the Penn Tech Trek with a group of 20 students to Silicon Valley. I was so excited for this opportunity to visit top startups and venture capital firms from Andreessen Horowitz to Tesla to Khan Academy to Y-Combinator’s Startup School. Each day we visited…Read More
Posted by Alison Och On-Campus-Recruiting, better known by its “slang” name "OCR," is the process that students learn to fear before they have even begun to approach it. At Wharton, students get caught up in the stress of OCR. Those three letters have our brains programmed to cringe the instance…Read More
This summer when I was searching for an internship, I knew I wanted to explore finance, a field I had no previous exposure to other than through Wharton classes. I was able to do this, and much more through my summer internship with the Wharton Public Policy Initiative. My internship…Read More
My purpose in writing this post is to clarify a common misconception regarding the forging, maintaining and utilizing of professional contacts. I often hear students speak with pessimism about not having family contacts in their industry of interest or being reluctant to “cold call” firms. In my freshman year at…Read More 
Posted by Olivia Nelson At Wharton, we learn the skills necessary to be successful in various industries and to have profitable careers. It seems to be that one of the biggest misconceptions about Wharton students is that making money is all that matters to us. Undoubtedly, being able to go…Read More 
When I decided that I wanted to go to Penn and study business, I imagined that graduation would take me into a world of suits, computers, skyscrapers, and travel. I envisioned working late into the night on incredible projects with teams of brilliant individuals from all over the world, sitting…Read More
After only one semester, I can already say that one of the things I love the most about Wharton is the incredible entrepreneurial spirit that is promoted by students, the administration, and a number of programs and initiatives. Going into college, I set the goal of obtaining an internship for…Read More
This summer I had the privilege of working as a research assistant in the Health Care Management Department through a program funded by the Wharton Public Policy Initiative. Working as an RA under the direction of Professor Kolstad, I was able to apply my interest in economics and health care…Read More
It’s August, which means that back-to-school shopping season is in full swing. Suppose you want a new pair of jeans. You walk into a department store and begin browsing your options. Blue jeans, black jeans, skinny cut, boot cut, this label, that label. You feel a bit overwhelmed by the…Read More
For the past nine weeks, I have been working with an organization called Expand Peru in Huancayo, establishing a sustainable economic development program that will accept international volunteers. My primary responsibility is to help a group of 10-15 teenage girls launch a bakery through microcredit and business education. We meet…Read More
Last summer as part of my internship, I was coerced into taking an etiquette class. The format of the night was presented to us beforehand: it would be a four-course dinner beginning with an hors d’oeuvres hour. Back then, as a financial industries aspirant and intern, I inherently knew this…Read More
I came to Wharton eager to learn how I could leverage my business education to add measurable value to both local communities and society at large. Now, halfway through my junior year, I have had the opportunity to pursue this goal from a variety of perspectives, from providing consulting services…Read More
As the creator of two nonprofit organizations, I have always viewed entrepreneurship as the driving force behind social change. My passion for entrepreneurship stems from my desire to positively influence society through business innovation. Working as a consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center has provided me with the…Read More
As a graduating senior, OCR seems very distant to me even though it was only a year ago that I was partaking in it. What is OCR? Well, it’s officially called on-campus recruiting, and it happens the second semester of your junior year – it’s the time when college students…Read More
I spent 10 weeks this summer in New Delhi, India working for Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group. Unlike many of my peers, I wasn’t spending my summer at a corporate headquarters where our Wharton skills are obviously and immediately applicable. Before I left I was unsure of how my…Read More
