Purpose with Passion
A leading center for innovative teaching, research and discourse on women, leadership and management, the School of Management (SOM) offers a demanding management education to women MBA and undergraduate students. SOM is also a leading-edge provider of executive education, consulting services, and applied research to senior management in business, government, and the nonprofit sector.
The School of Management has an entrepreneurial, collaborative learning environment for women who want to accomplish something meaningful for their organizations, communities, and themselves. SOM is for women of purpose who intend to use their leadership skills to make a lasting difference in the world.
The School of Management offers the following:
MBA Program
The MBA Program helps students master the essentials of strategy, finance, marketing, economics, entrepreneurship, operations, quantitative analysis and organizational behavior. Just as important, our students learn more effective ways to lead, manage, and influence people. Simmons graduates develop a range of competencies employers covet: mental agility, strategic thinking and analytic ability plus superior leadership, communication and team-building skills.
The Certificate in Entrepreneurship
The nationally recognized Simmons Certificate in Entrepreneurship helps women master the business fundamentals of entrepreneurship and reap the personal and professional rewards of entrepreneurial careers. The Certificate is designed specifically for women and encompasses a sequenced set of four courses that combine theoretical and experiential learning including a hands-on practicum. Throughout the program, Simmons provides you with valuable opportunities to make connections, build networks and develop mentoring relationships with a broad community of faculty, alumnae, researchers, advisors and business leaders. Whether you plan to launch or grow your own venture, you’ll acquire critical skills for creating sustainable ventures that have an impact.
Executive Education
Our Executive Education programs give women the knowledge, skills, and abilities to become organizational leaders, learning from faculty experts in organizational behavior and in gender and organizational effectiveness. Our clients often credit their Simmons experience with job and career advancement.
Undergraduate Management
The Undergraduate Management program offers four majors: management, marketing, retail management and finance, all sharing a common set of prerequisites and required core courses. Students are also encouraged to double major or minor with other Simmons programs such as economics, communications, arts administration or computer science.
Center for Gender in Organizations
The Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO), SOM's research arm, is committed to improving organizational effectiveness by strengthening gender equity in the workplace. Founded with the help of a Ford Foundation grant, the CGO – through its vibrant research initiative, speaker's bureau, and customized consulting – is an international resource on diversity and organizational change for scholars, executives and practitioners in all fields.
Leadership Conference
The annual Leadership Conference is the world's premier leadership event for women, consistently attracting world-class leaders from business, government, education, media and the arts. The Conference is a generous source of MBA scholarships.
"As I interact in the Boston community personally and professionally, I continue to come across great women business leaders who are graduates of the SOM. It confirms for me the importance of the school's mission to educate women for leadership and power - and the excellent job it's doing to attain that goal."
Stacy Blake-Beard, associate professor and CGO research faculty member