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May 9, 2008

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WEP in Action: Wharton Business Plan Semi-Finalists YouTube Video

This year, for the first time, WEP interviewed Wharton Business Plan Competition Semi-Finalists and the positive response was overwhelming. The video has been viewed by hundreds on YouTube, the Wall Street Journal’s Independent Street Web site and the Wharton home page.

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Segway's Dilemma

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	April 2008 WEP in Action: Wharton Business Plan Semi-Finalists YouTube Video This year, for the first time, WEP interviewed Wharton Business Plan Competition Semi-Finalists and the positive response was overwhelming. The video has been viewed by hundreds on YouTube, the Wall Street Journal’s Independent Street Web site and the Wharton home page.

	March 2008 Jon M. Huntsman (W'59, H'96) Interview In this issue we speak to alumnus Jon M. Huntsman (W'59, H'96), a man who is perhaps as well known for the values he lives by as the companies he has built. Learning all he could about business by managing operations at a poultry farm, Jon Huntsman went on to revolutionize the container and chemical industries. Through the decades including countless acquisitions and an IPO, he has never wavered from his moral compass.

	March 2008 Venturing Abroad Wharton's Prof. Mauro Guillen Explores Traits of VC-Friendly Economies

	March 2008 An Egg-cellent Education Wharton Alumnus Jon M. Huntsman Got Big by Starting Small

	February 2008 The Real Deal on Venture Capital Prof. Raffi Amit Helms Wharton West Panel on VC Trends

	February 2008 According to Plan Wharton Small Business Development Center Course Teaches Business-Building Fundamentals

	February 2008 WEP in Action: Wharton Business Plan Competition Past Winners Panel One popular workshop of the Wharton BPC brings back past prize winners to discuss their experiences of yesterday and today.

	January 2008 Facing Forward Startups by Wharton students and alums thrive by leveraging the reach of Facebook

	January 2008 Does Microfinance Need Regulators? Nobel Laureate Yunus Thinks So... Setting up museums isn't exactly what banks think of as their core business. Still, it was hardly surprising to hear Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank, recently exhort Maharashtra to build a poverty museum to mark the end of poverty.

	January 2008 WEP in Action: Tour of Henry Davidsen Join us for a visit to Henry A. Davidsen, Mastor Tailors and Image Consultants, a Wharton Venture Initiation Program company that just opened up its own retail space in downtown Philadelphia.