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Club Spotlights
Club News in Brief
The Wharton Club of San Diego has
re-energized with a series of events, including
a happy hour at Harry’s Bar
& Grill in La Jolla on July 12 and a
September wine and cheese event at
the home of Rick Thompson,WG’96,
in Rancho Santa Fe. In other cultural
news, Laura Robinson, WG’92, a
new board member of the San Diego
Chamber Orchestra, has invited club
members to a pre-season talk on August
13 with the artistic director of the San
Diego Chamber Orchestra, Jung-Ho
Pak. She is also planning an IvyHour/
San Diego Spotlight hosted event for
the San Diego Chamber Orchestra
January Concert in Rancho Santa Fe.
On May 8, 2007, the Wharton
Carolinas Club hosted a panel discussion
entitled “Trends in Sports
Business.” The panel consisted of
Professor Ken Shropshire, Director of
the Wharton Sports Business Initiative;
Ray Bednar, Strategic Marketing
Executive from Bank of America; and
Mike Gminski, former NBA and Duke
University basketball player and now
well-known basketball commentator.
Following a bagel breakfast during
which attendees schmoozed and networked,
the panelists gave their insights
into trends influencing sports business.
Questions and answers followed.
Wharton Carolinas events are characterized
by quizzes and contests.
Attendees had been asked to predict
the winner of the Wachovia Golf Championship, which ended on May 6. Jamie Dunn, WG’06, using Whartonstyle
forecasting and computer modeling
techniques, correctly predicted that
Tiger Woods would win by two strokes!
He was awarded tickets to next year’s
Wachovia Championship.
The next event planned was a summer
family picnic held in mid-July.
The Wharton Club of Southern
California has had an amazing summer,
with annual dinners in L.A. and
Orange County, a fantastic Media and
Entertainment Forum, and Wharton/
Penn Days at Angel and Dodger
Stadiums. The club met many of the
summer interns and is gearing up for
the admissions season. Zafar Khan,
WG’98, will be taking over as president for Wharton So Cal from Meesh
Joslyn Pierce, W’93, WG’98, starting
in January 2008. He has successfully
led the club’s C-Circle initiative, getting
Wharton C-level executives to meet
regularly to discuss high level business
matters and act as a sounding board for
one another.
On May 17, 2007, the Wharton Club
of Mexico City hosted Leonard M.
Lodish, the Samuel R. Harrell Professor
and Professor of Marketing, for a speaking
engagement on how Mexican companies
can use global entrepreneurial
marketing. Lodish is also the founder
and senior director of Wharton’s Global
Consulting Practicum. The event was
organized with the support of the
Wharton Alumni Affairs office. More
than 50 Wharton and Insead alumni attended
the discussion and cocktail hour.
The Wharton Club of Spain has hosted
four events during the second quarter
of 2007. First was lunch with Felipe Oriol, WG’74, chairman of Corpfin
Capital and Chairman of Fundación
Empresa y Sociedad. Felipe was founder
of the Wharton Club of Spain back in
the 1980s. He has been a main actor in
the private equity industry in Spain since
1989, and in 1995 he co-founded the first
Spanish entity of businesses to promote
corporate social responsibility. More than
20 alumni gathered around the table at el
Club Financiero de Madrid to discuss private
equity and CSR.
The second event was lunch with
Steven Winegar, CEO of Restauralia
and founder of Grupo ZENA, one
of Spain’s largest food service chains.
Discussion ranged from entrepreneurship,
to private equity from the point of
view of the manager, to strategic issues
in the food service industry.
The Club hosted a new panel format
with a group of four members
from leading head hunting firms. Pedro
Goenaga, WG’85, Ramon Gomez
de Olea, WG’97, G’97, Pilar Girón,
WG’92, and Javier Anitua, WG’91,
guided attendees through key issues for
career planning.
Finally, the Club hosted a reception to
Lauder students visiting Madrid as part of
the Spanish immersion program. These
students were in Mexico and Spain for
six weeks to improve their Spanish skills
through a combination of formal classes
at local universities and cultural events.
Club members helped arrange company
visits and arranged the reception so the
students could meet with Spanish alumni.
The Wharton Club of Japan, in conjunction
with Fuji Xerox, held a luncheon
meeting with Professor Michael
Useem on April 24, 2007, as a part of
The Wharton 125th Anniversary World
Tour. More than 50 people, including
newly admitted students from the class
of 2009, attended the very successful
meeting.
On May 18, 2007, the Wharton
Club of Japan General Meeting was
held. Guest speakers included Professor
Stephen Kobrin and MBA Admissions
Director Thomas Caleel, with more
than 110 people in attendance.
A December year-end event and
welcome party for the class of 2007
is in the works.
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