The WAB Helps Undergrads at the Wharton School
The Wharton Journal is an influential publication of the Wharton School of Business Management to which many business leaders have been periodic contributors.
In the October, 2000 issue Taek Jho Low analyzed and explained the role that the Wharton Dean’s Undergraduate Advisory Board (WAB) plays in the life of students and the famous University of Pennsylvania School.
The WAB was founded in 1983 by former Dean Russel Palmer and was endowed with an important mission. First of all, the WAB is the link and connector between students, administration and faculty at Wharton. In this way there is enhanced communication between the three bodies, hopefully solving small problems before they develop into large ones and helping to improve areas which are of concern to undergraduates which might otherwise go unnoticed and unheeded.
According to Taek Jho Low, who interviewed two members of the WAB for the article, one thing that is a great benefit to the workings of the WAB is the group structure.
As one member of the WAB put it, “We do not have a formal multi-leveled structure. The WAB board is very flat and effective; everyone that voices their opinion is heard.”
And that is one of the secrets of their success.
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