Over 100 years ago, when motorized vehicles first started hitting the road it was actually the electric car that first roamed the streets. That soon fizzled due to poor batteries and the internal combustion engine won out, starting its century long reign as the king of transportation. A lot has changed since then, and electric vehicles are once again poised for a comeback. Tesla Motors was the first company to break into this market in [...]
Mercury Morris and the 1972 Miami Dolphins popped the cork on their champagne Tuesday night, as the Fighting Harbaughs became the last undefeated team to fall, ensuring for now that the 1972 Dolphins will remain the only undefeated team in the history of the NFL or Wharton Basketball League. Los Verdugos 37, Fighting Harbaughs 36 Like all great things in life, the Fighting Harbaughs’ undefeated season has come to an end, as the [...]
Interview with Sarah Paiji What is Snapette? Snappette is an iphone app that helps women discover great fashion in the world around them. We’re making it easy to find or share user-generated photos of in-store products. Did you arrive at HBS with the intention to launch a startup, or did it happen organically? No, I actually had no intention of doing a startup! I wasn’t part of the Startup Tribe, or the Tech [...]
Interview with Balu Chandrasekaran (WG ’12) What is Lokalty? Who’s on the team? Lokalty is a loyalty program for Philadelphia local businesses. Our goal is to keep Philadelphia customers coming back to local businesses every day. We give customers LokalPoints for every dollar spent that can then be redeemed at any Lokalty affiliated business. For example, you could earn LokalPoints for massages at Balance Health and then redeem those points for coffee at Elixr. [...]
A privileged youth gets kicked out of his preparatory boarding school, returns to New York and narrates his escapades getting drunk and trying to get laid and/or find himself. No, you aren’t reading Catcher in the Rye, but rather Octopus Summer. The author, Malcolm Dorson (WG ’13) pays homage to Salinger in his gritty update of the classic novel, explicitly drawing parallels between his protagonist, Callum Littlefield, and Holden Caulfield. In limbo after his expulsion [...]
Rubbing shoulders with Jet Li, Jackie Chan, and Michelle Yeoh? Having exclusive access at NBA all-star games and the Beijing Olympics? Acting in a KFC TV commercial? Jason Lin, WG’12, shared all of these experiences and much more in his Perspectives on Leadership talk on November 14th. Born in Taiwan, Jason moved to Saratoga, California when he was four years old. Growing up in the hotbed of the film industry, Jason’s interest in movies [...]
In honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, The Wharton Journal asked a group of students, faculty, and staff to answer the perennial question: “What are you thankful for this year?” Kathryn Sullivan, WG’12 One of the many things I’m thankful for is Wharton’s encouragement to explore the world. I’m thankful for my classmates who have welcomed me to their home countries, shared their cultures and cuisines and languages with me. I’m thankful for [...]
