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Sylvia Maxfield Associate Professor of Management at Simmons College Interviewed on NPR
Investment firm Goldman Sachs recently reported big, third quarter profits providing a bright example of economic recovery on Wall Street. But the good news was not received well on Main Street after the company announced its plans to hand out billions in bonuses. Sylvia Maxfield, an Associate Professor of Management at Simmons College and former senior Sovereign Analyst at Lehman Brothers talks about the practice of giving out bonuses. And Emmy award winning journalist Valerie Coleman Morris discusses the anger behind the announcement and how much control does the government really have over investment firms on Wall Street.
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National Gates Arrest Review Committee Features Simmons School of Management Professor
BOSTON (September 18, 2009) — Stacy Blake-Beard, a professor at the Simmons School of Management, has been appointed to the 12-member Cambridge Review Committee, a national independent group that aims to identify lessons learned from the July 16 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Blake-Beard, who specializes in organizational behavior, diversity and mentoring, joins a distinguished body of academic and law enforcement representatives to address a range of issues surrounding the controversial incident that made international headlines. Among the committee's goals are to assess whether the Cambridge Police department should modify its operational procedures; how issues of race, class, and interpersonal conflict should be included in officers' training; and what should be done to better appreciate the cultural and social complexities of the residents who deal with police.
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Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands Writes on "Principled Leadership: A model for the 'reset' economy" in Women's Business Boston
BOSTON (September 2, 2009) — Simmons School of Management Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands speaks to the importance of 'principled leadership' during times of financial uncertainly in a column titled, "Principled Leadership: A model for the 'reset' economy," featured in the September edition of Women's Business Boston.
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Simmons College School of Management Earns Prestigious International Accreditation
Simmons College School of Management (SOM) has received accreditation from the prestigious Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International. With this accreditation, the SOM joins an elite group of institutions: less than 30% of business schools in the U.S. and less than 5% worldwide have earned and retained this distinguished hallmark of excellence in management education.
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SOM Building Selected as a Green Building of America Award-Winning Project
From more than 2,500 nominated projects, Simmons College School of Management and Academic Building has been selected as a Green Building of America Award-winning project and will be featured in the upcoming special Real Estate & Construction Review-Northeast Green Success Stories edition.
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