Wharton lands BlackRock, Intel bosses for MBA grads
BlackRock still isn't moving to West Philly, but they're sending one of the bosses to speak at this year's Wharton MBA commencement.
Robert S. Kapito, president of BlackRock, the bond and investment company, will be the main speaker at the May 16 Wharton School MBA graduation at the University of Pennsylvania.
Maybe Kapito, a 1979 Wharton grad (with an '83 Harvard MBA), will update whether the company will ever move into that proposed Cira 2 tower that Brandywine Realty Trust (with help from tax breaks approved by Gov. Rendell and Mayor Nutter) offered to build for BlackRock next door to Penn's campus a couple years back.
Separately, Intel Corp. President and CEO Paul S. Otellini will speak before this Spring's graduates of Wharton's San Francisco executive MBA program, on May 2 out there at Wharton West.