{"id":13138,"date":"2013-09-11T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2022-07-24T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T13:20:55","slug":"professor-profiles-franklin-allen-the-wharton-school-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-franklin-allen-the-wharton-school-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles, Franklin Allen, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we profile <strong>Franklin Allen<\/strong>\u00a0from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9116\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Franklin Allen\" alt=\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Franklin-Allen.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"140\" align=\"right\" \/>Many consider\u00a0<strong>Franklin Allen<\/strong> (\u201cCorporate Finance\u201d) an institution at Wharton. Almost every student in the school\u2019s MBA program takes his \u201cCorporate Finance\u201d class, and even incoming investment bankers who could easily place out choose to take the semester-long course. According to a former student with whom we spoke, Allen, with his dry sense of humor and use of creative examples, has the unique ability to make corporate finance easy to understand and even fun to learn. Although students have access to his course notes before every class, attendance at his lectures does not suffer. As such, the list of teaching awards Allen has won at Wharton is seemingly endless. Moreover, Allen makes a point of having lunch\u2014his treat\u2014with every student who takes his class (in groups of approximately four to seven students at a time).<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other defining characteristics of the MBA program at Wharton or any of 15 other top business schools, please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. 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Today, we profile Franklin Allen\u00a0from &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-franklin-allen-the-wharton-school-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&nbsp;<i class=\"fal fa-sm fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professor-profiles","category-upenn-wharton"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles, Franklin Allen, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-franklin-allen-the-wharton-school-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor Profiles, Franklin Allen, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. 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