Schedule | Friday, May 16, 2008

9:00 AM – 9:00 PM	Registration Hoover Lounge, Vance Hall 3733 Spruce Street Make Hoover Lounge your first stop to pick up your official Reunion Weekend registration materials or to register onsite if you have not done so already.
	Professional Education Workshop Series Join our renowned professors and alumni for an assortment of programs and presentations on the latest topics affecting business.  The workshops are an ideal way to quickly boost your knowledge on emerging business issues.
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM	Professor Michael Useem -- "The Go Point: When It’s Time to Decide." The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management; Director, Center for Leadership and Change Management G06, Dhirubhai Ambani Auditorium, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street Moments of decision are those times when an individual, team, or organization faces a tangible opportunity to go one way or another. And ultimately, every decision comes down to a go point – that moment when the essential information has been gathered, the pros and cons are weighed, and the time has come to get off the fence. Decisions at such points are at the heart of leadership and a driver of organizational performance. Drawing on the decision moments of a range of company leaders, corporate directors – and even mountaineers on Mt. Everest, firefighters in the wilderness, and generals at Gettysburg – Michael Useem identifies what it takes for making timely calls when leadership really matters.
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM	“Wharton Town Meeting” with Dean Thomas S. Robertson G06, Dhirubhai Ambani Auditorium, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street Join Dean Robertson for a State of the School address that includes an update on The Campaign for Wharton along with the dean’s vision for the future of the Wharton School.
12:00 PM – 1:45 PM	Emeritus Society Steering Committee Luncheon The University Club at the Inn at Penn 3611 Walnut Street (2nd Floor)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Professional Education Workshop Lunch Network with fellow Wharton MBA alumni over an informal lunch under the tent on Lehman Brothers Quad
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Professor G. Richard Shell -- "The Art of Woo! Selling Your Ideas to Your Organization, One Person at a Time." Thomas Gerrity Professor Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Management G06, Dhirubhai Ambani Auditorium, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street Former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca once noted, "You can have brilliant ideas; but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." In their new book, The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas, Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor G. Richard Shell and management consultant Mario Moussa provide a systematic approach to the problem Iacocca identified. Using relationship-based, emotionally intelligent persuasion to secure both individual and organizational buy-in, everyone from CEOs and entrepreneurs to team leaders and mid-level managers can sell their ideas -- a skill that everyone needs to learn if they want to be effective in their organizations.  In this interactive session, Professor Shell will help attendees to measure their own personal “Woo I.Q.” using some notable video examples, including one involving rock star and social entrepreneur Bono.
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM	Concurrent Professional Educational Workshops (Please choose one) Workshop 1:  Healthcare/ Leonard Davis Institute Session Urban Health: Issues and Actions G60, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut St. Moderated by: David Asch, M.D., M.B.A., Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; and Robert D. Eilers, Professor of Health Care Management and Economics Penn faculty and administrators will review research and public policy in the area of urban health. The subject serves as a starting point for discussions about biological, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental influences on health. Panelists: Amy Hillier, Ph.D., SW’97, SWP’01, Assistant Professor in City and Regional Planning, School of Design; Associate Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice on environmental determinants of health, David Grande, M.D., Instructor of Medicine, School of Medicine on the health care safety net, Therese Richmond, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., C.R.N.P., GRN’95, GNC’97, Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing on violence as a health problem in West Philadelphia, and Ira Harkavy, Ph.D., C’70, GR’79, Founding Director and Associate Vice President, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships on community partnerships Workshop 2:  Perspectives on Career Transition - SOLD OUT F85, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut St. Moderated by:  Ursula Maul, WG81 This session, moderated by Ursula Maul, will include a panel of alumni and experts in search, placement and human resources, sharing their perspective on how to effectively manage a career transition. Panelists:     Astrid Nino, WG98, Principal, CTPartners, Mark Weinsten, WG90, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, and Gloria Rabinowitz, WG78, President & CEO, GCM Group, LLC.; President, Wharton Club of Philadelphia. Workshop 3:  The Entrepreneurship Perspective – Lessons from Wharton Alumni - SOLD OUT Co-sponsored with Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs F95, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut St. Moderated by:  Robert J. Chalfin, Esq., W78 WG78 Wharton alumni entrepreneurs have founded some of the world’s leading companies.  This panel of Wharton entrepreneurs will provide a compelling look at what it takes to start a successful business. Their inspiring stories will help explain what the motivations, challenges and greatest rewards are of owning a business. The alumni will also address such critical issues as finance, human capital and growth and acquisition strategies. Panelists: Jay Minkoff, WG83, President and CEO, First Flavor, Selwyn Isakow, WG78, Founder and CEO, The Oxford Investment, and Alex Campbell, W98, Co-Founder and CEO, Vibes Media
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Class of 2003 Plaque Dedication Ceremony Outside MBA Café, 2nd Floor, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Class of 2003 MBA Pub MBA Pub, Vance Hall 3733 Spruce Street
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM	WG’98 Kickoff Reception 8th Floor, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street
8:00 PM – 12:00 AM	All Alumni Reunion Class Mixer Rae Restaurant at Cira Centre 2929 Arch Street Dress Attire: Smart casual Relive the days of club parties on campus and create new memories at this all class mixer at University City’s hottest new Daniel Stern restaurant located at the Cira Centre – the first major high-rise office building in Philadelphia to be constructed outside of Center City.  Cocktails, dinner and dancing will set the stage for this fun and exciting evening. *WG'73 Union League Reception and Dinner-- visit class web page for details.*

 

Schedule | Saturday, May 17, 2008

Dress attire for all day Saturday: Casual

Schedule | Sunday, May 18, 2008

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Franklin Field 33rd Street (between Spruce & Walnut)
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM	All Alumni Brunch Under the tent on Lehman Brothers Quad Come enjoy a delicious brunch and support your classes’ commencement flag bearer as you close out the weekend and bid a fond farewell to your classmates.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM	MBA Commencement Exercises Franklin Field 33rd Street (between Spruce & Walnut)