M&E’ers,
We’ve got a bus booked for our end of the year Atlantic City trip and are working out drink deals. The price will likely be ~$20 for club members and slightly higher for non members. We’ll post a link to the store, when its finalized. In the meantime, mark your calendars, dig out your rabbit’s foot and spread the word. Best way to celebrate the last day of classes, no doubt…
Add comment April 22nd, 2008
What: Jermaine Dupri and Mike Muse
When: Tuesday, April 1, 6:30pm-8pm
Where: Terrace Room, Logan Hall (Locust Walk & 36th Street)
Please join the Wharton Undergraduate M&E Club and the MBA M&E Club in welcoming Jermaine Dupri, President, Island Urban Music and Mike Muse, CEO/Co-Founder, Muse Recordings, in a guest speaker event discussing the music industry. This is the first major music industry guest speaker event at the University of Pennsylvania (and possibly the last)!
Jermaine Dupri is currently working on projects with/producing for Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Usher, and DJ Felli Fel of Power 106 Los Angeles and leads the Urban division of Island Records, signing Jagged Edge and Hot Dolla to the label. Other artists on Island Records include Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy and The Killers.
Island Urban falls under the umbrella of Island Def Jam Music Group which is a subsidiary major label of the Universal Music Group, other labels of the conglomerate include Geffen, Interscope/A&M, and Motown Records.
Mike Muse co-founded Muse Recordings with the vision of revitalizing the sounds of “motown”. His label specializes in artists embodying a combination of R&B, Soul, Hip Hop, and Gospel.
Our guests look forward to an interactive crowd, please come ready with lots of questions!
Topics to be discussed include:
1) Creating business models in the music industry today
2) A&R, artist development, and creating/identifying hits
3) Marketing, branding, and strategic planning in music
4) Discussing Jermaine Dupri’s upcoming project with Usher and Mariah Carey
Jermaine Dupri will be signing copies of his new book, “Young, Rich, and Dangerous” available at the Penn Bookstore. 5 Copies of his book will be raffled off at the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival!
To RSVP for this extraordinary event, join the Facebook event here!!!
Also, check http://www.umusic.com for career and internship information!
Questions? Feel free to contact Scott Fujii (Wharton Undergraduate Media Club VP Internal, External, MBA/Alumni Relations) at sfujii@sas.upenn.edu.
Add comment March 28th, 2008
The Philadelphia Film Society is pleased to bring to the city of Philadelphia the 17th Philadelphia Film Festival, April 3-15. The Philadelphia Film Festival has become one of the leading film festivals in the Eastern United States, and this year is no exception. This year, with over 260 films screening at 6 venues around the city, this year’s festival promise once again to electrify film lovers of all tastes. The 17th Philadelphia Film Festival has films from 49 countries, the largest number of countries in festival history. And as always this year’s festival will be hosting several special events, receptions and programs attended by festival goers, special guests and award winners, over the course of the two week festival.
For more information, check out their website or download the mini-guide or program.
Add comment March 24th, 2008
Join us at 4:30pm on March 27 in JMHH G06 for a Wharton Leadership Lecture with Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi.
This Wharton Leadership Lecture is generously sponsored by Saatchi & Saatchi and the MBA Program Office.
Add comment March 24th, 2008
What: Andrew Weinreich, Founder and CEO of MeetMoi.com
When: Tuesday, March 25th, 6pm-7pm
Where: JMHH G65, Papa John’s Pizza will be served
Please RSVP to 
as space is limited.
Come hear the social networking pioneer talk about the future of online dating, social networking and the challenges of capital raising in the internet space.
Andrew Weinreich has spent the last 15 years starting, and building businesses in the internet space. Andrew is the Founder and CEO of MeetMoi.com, a “Web 2.0″ location-based mobile online dating service, which closed a $1.5 million Series A round of financing from Acadia Woods partners in early 2007. In 2004, Andrew founded I Stand For, Inc., a full-service technology solutions provider to political campaigns and non-profit organization. In 2001, he founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of WiFi hotspots. Joltage HotSpots were revenue-generating locations where individuals could access the Internet at broadband speeds using their own laptops, handhelds or PDAs. In 1996, Andrew launched sixdegrees.com, which over a period of five years grew to become one of the largest community sites on the Web, with over 3.5 million users. Sixdegrees pioneered the social networking space, and Andrew sold it to Youthstream Media Networks for $125 million before the dotcom bubble went bust.
Andrew previously practiced law as General Counsel for the Hertz Technology Group and was also a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking. Andrew graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and earned a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law in 1994.
Sponsored by the Wharton Accounting Society.
Add comment March 24th, 2008
from the Annenberg Center…
In early April the Annenberg Center will be hosting the filming of a popular Comedy Central program; “The Colbert Report“. The production company is asking for student volunteers to assist in the administrative production of the filming and we feel your students could benefit greatly from the opportunity. We ask for your assistance in promoting the position to the appropriate areas within your department. The dates are April 12th - April 17th. There is no written application process. I will be conducting interviews of all candidates starting immediately. Interested individuals may contact me via email (
), or by phone at (215) 898-5294 to set up an appointment. Please note, to keep things tidy and organized, we stress that all inquiries be made through the above email or phone number given. I cannot accept unscheduled walk-ins to the Center.
T De Luca, Patron Services Manager
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
1 comment March 21st, 2008
Penn Law has invited us to join them to hear from two speakers discussing sports on television this Tuesday:
As noted, the discussion will be held Tuesday March 18 @ 4:30 PM at Gittis Hall. See the flyer below for more details.
1 comment March 17th, 2008
For those of you that are going to be around NYC during spring break, the 2008 Media Summit in New York City will be held March 12 and 13. “The 2008 Media Summit New York is the Premier International Conference on Media, Broadband, Advertising, Television, Cable & Satellite, Mobile, Publishing, Radio, Magazines, News & Print Media and Marketing” This seems like a great conference with Bob Iger and Leslie Moonves as the two keynote speakers and a variety of workshops and panels run by people in the industry.
The general price is nearly $1000. HOWEVER, there is a student special available for only $75, which seems to be an all-event ticket for both days. To get this price requires to have a group of five or more. Because we are so late in the game, this needs to be organized fairly quickly. First, we need to figure out if there are enough people that would want to do this, so please email Marina Segal marinas@wharton.upenn.edu and let her know ASAP (ie, by Sunday night) if you are interested. Once we get a list of people, I will email out further instructions. We have to send our info to the registration people as a group, so I will have to fedex the necessary papers (list of people, copies of IDs and payment) as soon as possible so they can register us. This cannot be done at the door.
Add comment March 2nd, 2008
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