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All Lauder got together before class for our summer project presentations. As part of our summer immersion each Language track did a small consulting project (or inside analysis) on a company around the world.

Here is a list of this year projects.

French Track - Senegalese Food Exporter, French Insurance Company and Citilog (vehicle detection & traffic control system).

Spanish Track - Organic Fertilizer Company in Mexico , Banco Amigo (a microfinance bank in Mexico) and a Barcelona restaurant.     

Portuguese Track - Santos Futebol Club and Tarpon (hedge fund changing to PE fund).

Arabic Track -  OpenCraft (open source software consultancy).

Chinese Track -            Japanese/Fusion restaurant chain,China Airlines

Japanese Track - Sake Manufacturing in Kyoto

Russian Track -            Smart & Bright (a lighting design & supply).

German Track -            Pfanni Group (a food company)

Now back to Wharton.

The 1st years' who got to waive classes went into "the auction". You have to bid for the classes that you want and on the average you can pay 1000 points for every class you take in Wharton. There is a 20 page booklet explaining how the market clears and all the rules. The basic idea is that people are willing to pay more on courses they really want to take and speculators will try to buy cheap and sell dear in the meantime.

The first day of classes is exiting; this is when you continue to bond with your Cohort after the learning team retreat and start understanding the different backgrounds of the people around you in a class environment. We have been surprised to know that teachers take the time to do research on everyone of us before the first class to motivate class discussion. Wharton combines the case method, with theory, class discussion and quantitative skills.

You get bombarded with clubs and activities the 2nd years are organizing, leadership roles, applications and elections start popping out every day. I got the chance to be my Cohort Historian, which means I will publish a paragraph on my column every week and a newsletter for life (and I got that on my 1st week of actual classes).

The Core 1st Quarter at Wharton is usually Accounting, Finance (may be taken the 2nd Quarter), Marketing, MAGEC (Microeconomics, which ironically people like to call Magic) and Teamwork and leadership.

In Lauder we also take Capitalism through history and our Language classes.

MBA people say they are always busy, next time I will explain a day in Wharton.