Jan 6
The Complete Guide to Wharton Applications
Every year multiple Network Capital subscribers make it to Wharton for their MBA. Today we have a thriving Network Capital subgroup in Philadelphia.
As a Network Capital subscriber, this will be your five-pronged application strategy for Wharton.
As a Network Capital subscriber, this will be your five-pronged application strategy for Wharton.
Step I: Watch Masterclasses
Start by going through the following masterclasses and podcasts
"I don't know what I want to do with my life" Fellowship
CEO Fellowship
MBA and Masters Bootcamp
MBA and Masters Bootcamp
CEO Fellowship Archive
“I don’t know what I want to do with my life” Fellowship Archive
Community Building Fellowship
Community Building Fellowship Archive
Side-Hustle Fellowship Archive
The Side-Hustle Fellowship
Product Management Fellowship Archive
Fundamentals of Product Management
The Product Management Fellowship
Investing Fellowship Archive
The Investing Fellowship
Ed-Tech Fellowship
Personal Branding Fellowship Archive
The Personal Branding Fellowship
The D2C Fellowship
Public Speaking Fellowship Archive
The Public Speaking Fellowship
Monetise Your Passion Fellowship
The Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship
Public Policy Fellowship
Leadership Principles: My Life in Full with Indra Nooyi
Building Meaningful Careers as a PM with Director Product Management at Facebook Khushboo Taneja
Career Principles with Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Shiller
Principles of Community Building with Founder & CEO of Sheroes Sairee Chahal
Career Principles of CIO of Zerodha and True Beacon Nikhil Kamath
Principles of Career Transitions with Behaviour Scientist and Cambridge PhD. Student Sakshi Ghai
Sakshi Ghai is behavioral scientist and a Ph.D. Student in Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on empowerment, technology and behavior change in the context of Global South. Prior to her research work, she has worked as an advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather and as a diversity and inclusion researcher at Wharton People Analytics at the Wharton School. She was also a Visiting Scholar at Penn’s Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics and a short-term consultant at the World Bank’s behavioral science unit. Sakshi received degrees from Lady Shri Ram College for Women (BA in Philosophy), Ashoka University (Young India Fellowship), and the University of Pennsylvania (MSc in Behaviour and Decision Sciences).
Career Principles with Vice President of Altamont Capital Partners with Sahil Bloom
I am currently a Vice President at Altamont Capital Partners, a generalist investment fund with over $2.5 billion in capital under management, focused on control investments in middle market companies. At Altamont, I help to lead our efforts in the consumer products and services sector, including through active board roles at Altamont portfolio companies Fox Racing and Brixton.
Career Principles with Facebook Data Science Manager Zineb Amrani
What Does Working In Venture Capital Really Look Like with Akshay Bajaj
Crafting Your CV and SOP with Graduate Institute Student Prachi Jha
Augmenting Emotional Intelligence with AI: Career Principles of Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
Breaking into Product Management with Wharton Alumna & Google Product Manager with Bhavika Goyal
Bhavika Goyal is an incoming Product Manager at Google, and has an MBA from the Wharton Business School. Prior to her MBA, Bhavika had worked as a Project Manager at P&G as a technical engineer working in the supply chain division, based out of their manufacturing site in India. In 2017 she founded Joy Is You (www.joyisyou.com), an early-stage wellness start-up focused on improving the mental health of working professionals by teaching them ideas in personal growth, wellbeing, productivity, and mindfulness. She did her under-graduation from IIT Delhi.In this masterclass, she will discuss her professional journey and share mental models and insights into building a career as a Product Manager.
Careers Principles with Cambridge alum and HBS admit with Chia
Chia graduated from Cambridge and got admitted to Harvard Business School. In this masterclass, he will share his leadership journey, vision for future and concrete ideas about the future of work, specifically how and when should one think of advanced degrees and how skills in one industry can be applied to another
Tech Policy in India and The YLT Fellowship with Shriya Sethi and Subhashish Bhadra
Leadership Lessons with Jean-Philippe Courtois
In this candid and insightful masterclass, Jean-Philippe Courtois shares his personal advice and insights on -
1. Art of following your curiosity by building a habit of asking thoughtful questions.
2. Nuances of clarity, positivity, and success to augment personal leadership style.
3. Mental models for contextual awareness for leading cross-cultural and global teams.
As executive vice president and president, Global Sales, Marketing & Operations, Jean-Philippe Courtois leads Microsoft’s commercial business across 124 subsidiaries worldwide. From Cloud services to AI and mixed reality, Courtois is responsible for driving strategic planning, growth initiatives, national digital transformation partnerships and running Microsoft global commercial business. Courtois is passionate about enabling businesses to digitally transform with the right strategy, skills and technology to ignite new innovation, new ways of working, new business models and new revenue streams. He helps build vibrant ecosystems with small businesses, start-ups, public sector entities, partners all the way to global industry leaders.
Previously, Courtois served as president of Microsoft International where he led sales, marketing and services across all Microsoft subsidiaries outside of the United States and Canada. Before that he held the same role for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as CEO and president of Microsoft EMEA, and was corporate vice president of Worldwide Customer Marketing, based out of Microsoft’s worldwide headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Courtois joined Microsoft in 1984. His first role was as a partner sales representative and, after holding several leadership positions, he was promoted to general manager for Microsoft France in 1994.
Courtois holds a Diplôme des Etudes Commerciales Supérieures (DECS) from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nice (SKEMA). Outside of Microsoft, Courtois is chairman of the board of directors for SKEMA Business School, as well as a board member of Positive Planet, a worldwide leading NGO with a mission to help men and women across the world create the conditions for a better life for future generations.
Courtois is also on the board of directors of ManpowerGroup, the global workforce solutions organization. He has served as co-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force, on the European Commission Information and Communication Technology task force and previously sat on the board of directors for AstraZeneca.
In 2015, he co-founded the Live for Good foundation, which aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entrepreneurship, driving societal innovation through a purpose led community
Career Principles with TED Fellow Rumaitha al Busaidi
Step II: Join weekly MBA Bootcamp
We host a weekly 1:1 and small group sessions to go over different components of the applications. Through these session we help applicants identify their Category of One (as written by Utkarsh Amitabh, the founder of Network Capital in his Harvard Business Review article) and craft their application.
As a part of the bootcamp you get access to -
As a part of the bootcamp you get access to -
- Weekly sessions that help you perfect and craft every minute component of your application.
- Live support for review and feedback on your application.
- A time-bound assignment-based application structure that helps you finish your application in time.
Step III: Receive 1:1 mentoring to perfect your application
We host 1:1 mentoring or office hours everyday from 6pm to 10 pm (IST). As a subscriber you can book as frequently as you like.
In these office hours you will personalised feed on your CV and essays. The 100+ Network Capital Wharton alums will testify to the power of our office hours.
In these office hours you will personalised feed on your CV and essays. The 100+ Network Capital Wharton alums will testify to the power of our office hours.
Step IV: Connect with alums and prepare for your interview
To add final touches to your application and get guidance for the interview, you have complete support from the entire NC-Philadelphia subgroup.
Step V: Join the NC Philadelphia Subgroup
Connect with the city-leader for Philadelphia and find the Network Capital subgroup waiting for you as you embark upon your MBA adventure at Wharton.
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