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The Post-MBA Transition: 6 Things to Look Forward to after Graduation
It crept up on me much faster than I realized, but there they were, all over social media: photos of the graduates of 2017. There were family...
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Poem for my Father: Eulogy at my Dad’s Funeral
On Friday January 6th, 2017, my father passed away from a sudden and immediate heart attack at the age of 57. We had just spent two weeks...
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5 Lessons for Startups: What I’ve Learned from Entrepreneurship in Africa
**Originally posted on the African Leadership Network blog and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative blog. While some people are nervous about doing business in “frontier” markets, I’ve...
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The LeadUp: A Retreat for MBA’s to Reflect and Reconnect
**Originally posted on The Wharton Journal. School goes by in a flash, so classmate Jenna Gebel and I created the LeadUp to allow 1Y MBAs to...
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The who’s who of health-and-fitness startups: how “fit-tech” is revolutionizing an industry
I hate to admit it, but Americans have a pretty bad reputation of being overweight and lazy. In 2014 over 27% of us classified as obese, and...
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8 Skills to Listen and Lead Effectively: Advice from an FBI Hostage Negotiator
We’ve all had to persuade someone to do something. Most of the time we press actions on people and expect them to cooperate without doing any of...
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Wharton ProductHack 2014: What exactly is “design thinking”?
This past weekend several of Wharton’s tech/design/entrepreneurship clubs organized a day-long design thinking workshop and competitive hackathon, the very first Wharton ProductHack. For those of you unfamiliar...
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Behind Amazon’s Well-Oiled Machine: How the “Everything Store” Ships Everything
At 1.2 million square feet, the Amazon Fulfillment Center (FC) in Middletown, Delaware is the size of 21 football fields and employs roughly 2,500 full-time employees, swelling...
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The End of Q1 at Wharton: Keeping Perspective and the Unofficial MBA Letter
Last week’s exams marked the end of our first quarter at Wharton, a month and a half that flew by in a flurry of classes, extracurriculars, and...
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Diving with Manta Rays on Lembongan Island, Indonesia
Of all the footage I captured while filming Global Fusion Yoga in Indonesia, my favorite video hands-down was taken while diving with manta rays off the islands...
About MP
Welcome! My first name is Mary-Patton, or MP, as many of my friends (and those unfamiliar with the Southern tradition of double names) call me. I currently live in San Francisco and work on the product strategy and business operations team for personal finance startup NerdWallet. In May 2016 I graduated with my MBA at the Wharton School with a major in Entrepreneurial Management and lived in San Francisco as part of their Semester in SF program focused on tech and entrepreneurship. In the summer of 2015 I interned…