In The News
The SOM continues to receive extensive media coverage on the Simmons School of Management/Hewlett-Packard survey of 400 professional women taken at last year’s 2006 Simmons Leadership Conference. The survey challenges the idea that women are opting out of work to stay at home with their families. Rather, many professional women are negotiating flexible arrangements such as shortened hours and restricted travel. The survey was reported on in the Boston Globe, Fox News, NECN, and BizEd. Click here for a full list of media stories.
Click here to read "Optioning In versus “Opting Out”: Women Using Flexible Work Arrangements for Career Success, CGO Insights # 25 from the Simmons Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO), authored by Mary Shapiro, Cynthia Ingols and Stacy Blake-Beard, on flexible work arrangements for women.
New book by Margaret Heffernan featured in Boston Globe and USA Today
Visiting Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship Margaret Heffernan examines successful women entrepreneurs in her new book How She Does It: Redefining power and the nature of success for the 21st century. A book review by Cecil Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers, appeared in the Boston Globe on February 11, 2007, "How women altered the business landscape” comments on the success of women-run companies. Women-run companies are more likely to stay in business than the average U.S. firm, among many other facts. Read more online. A January 29, 2007, book review “Nurturing can be good for businesses, book says” Michelle Archer of USA Today highlights women from Heffernan's book that found tremendous entrepreneurial success. The article concludes “How She Does It" illuminates the strengths of female-run companies, and in doing so, perhaps this book will cause some light bulbs to go off over the collective heads of the corporate world.”
Patricia Deyton, Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations and Senior Lecturer at the Simmons School of Management, has been named to the Master of Liberal Arts in Management Advisory Council for the Harvard Extension School. She joins several other business and community leaders on the newly formed Council to advise the Deans on the challenges and opportunities of Harvard's Continuing Education program which offers both masters degrees and professional certificates.
Deyton also recently participated in the Official Launch of the 2008 Colloquium on Women's Leadership and Empowerment in Monrovia, Liberia. Held on January 16, 2007, the Official Launch was held on the first anniversary of the inauguration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia and the first democratically elected woman president of an African country.
A letter written by SOM Instructor Paul Myers was published in the February 13, 2007, edition of the Wall Street Journal. "Journalists Becoming The Best Sociologists” provides a strong argument on the role journalists take as sociologists, in response to the state of the Sociology discipline published on WSJ.com.
Deborah Kolb quoted in article on Elle/MSNBC.com Survey
Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership Deborah Kolb is quoted in a March 6, 2007 article "Men rule — at least in workplace attitudes: Even women seem skeptical of female bosses in Elle/MSNBC.com survey" By Eve Tahmincioglu. Kolb says, “In our society, leadership has been coded as masculine. To be a leader you have to be decisive and take charge. That fits fine for men, but when women do it they get labeled.” The article continues to say “Kolb doesn’t think people’s negative attitudes about women have anything to do with their abilities. She points to many surveys that show women are on par with men when it comes to leadership attributes. Unfortunately, she adds, in most surveys, including ours, women are not seen as having the same leadership potential as men.”
SOM Instructor Fiona Wilson '97, spoke at the Social Innovation Forum at Bain Capital in Boston. Wilson discussed the challenges of making a change in the issue of girls’ achievement at the topic-themed breakfast on March 7, 2007. The event also included members of Strong Women, Strong Girls, a Boston-based non-profit organization that offers an innovative after-school model approach for helping at-risk girls in grades three through five.
SOM Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands is opening presenter at FIT Conference. Dean Merrill-Sands will open the Strategic Leadership Program for Women in Fashion program, at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City on March 15, 2007. This full-day program, which is sponsored by the Center for Executive Women in Fashion at FIT, will feature a range of keynote presentations, panel sessions and workshops focusing on building leadership skills among female executives in the retailing and fashion industry. Dean Merrill-Sands will address the topic “Gender and Leadership” from 8:45 am – 10:15 am. SOM alumnae receive a discounted rate of $395 to attend the event. Call 212.217.7598 for more information.
Deborah Kolb, Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership, will speak at the Third Annual Iowa Women's Leadership Summit . Kolb's talk on "Everyday Negotiation: Creating the Conditions for Leadership Success" on Friday, April 27, 2007This event is open to students, faculty and staff from educational institutions and those interested in leadership roles in politics, business, non-profit and community organizations.
Entrepreneur Magazine names SOM's entrepreneur program best in New England
SOM’s Entrepreneurship Program has been ranked in the top 25 best programs in the nation - and ranked number one in New England - by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review, which surveyed more than 700 schools to arrive at their top choices.
The Simmons entrepreneurship program ranked 18th out of the top 25 programs nationally in the graduate program category. The ranking appears in the October issue of Entrepreneur. Earlier this year SOM’s entrepreneurship program was named one of the 10 most innovative in the country by Fortune Small Business magazine.
U.S. News & World Report & Princeton Review rank Simmons as a top college in the country
Simmons College has been named a “Best College” in the 2007 U.S. News & World Report rankings of “America’s Top Colleges.” Simmons was also named in the 2007 Princeton Review “Best 361 Colleges.”
Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) unanimously approves Simmons College's Plan for new School of Management and academic building with underground garage and green quad.
The plans by Cannon Design include an environmentally 'green' building and 715 car garage. Simmons's excellent reputation in the community was a large factor in this unanimous approval by the BRA. Not a single person spoke in opposition to the proposal, which is most unusual. Several spoke in favor of it, citing Simmons's extraordinary involvement with community and neighborhood organizations. Click to view the latest design of the building from the east, and the south.
Alumnae in the news:
Clarissa Ceruti '01 recently joined the UPenn Center for Technology Transfer as Associate Director, Life Sciences.
Mary Finlay '90, Deputy Chief Information Officer of Partners Healthcare in Wellesley, MA., was recently named Chairwoman of the Mass Technology Leadership Council. Finlay is the first CIO executive to serve in this capacity at the organization, and will oversee the Council’s 43-member Board of Trustees, which sets the overall direction and provides oversight of the finances and management of the organization’s 500 members. Click here to read more.
Jacqueline A. Proctor '88 EE has been named deputy commissioner and communications manager of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Click here to read more.
Kristin Reynolds '03, '00 UG , Consultant at New England Pension Consultants (NEPC) is a CFA charter holder and a member of both the Boston Security Analysts Society, and the CFA Institute.
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Posted on July 18, 2006 5:01 PM
