Wharton's Invasion of the Bay Area B-School Scene


"It may not be a stately building with ivy-covered walls, but it promises to be a powerful presence in a market 3,000 miles from its home base. And that sounds just fine to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, which will drop an executive-education minicampus into the heart of San Francisco -- and in the backyard of two of its B-school competitors -- in the next few months."


When I visited Wharton in Philadelphia in November, my main impression was that it was a goliath that had spread itself too thin. Setting up a campus in the Bay Area may be a good move though. If all of those techos attended a few more business classes, perhaps the dot com sector might actually prove to be profitable in the long term.