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June 10th, 2010 |
The mission of the Simmons School of Management is to educate women for power and principled leadership. We are committed to the advancement of knowledge and practice in management through excellence in education and research. Our academic programs offer rigorous, applied, management education designed for women. We focus on leadership, and our programs integrate the strategic, functional, and behavioral aspects of management. SOM students gain the knowledge, analytical skills, and confidence that they need to manage successfully in dynamic and global environments. We are invested in our students’ success and support them as they launch, advance, and change their careers.
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Sports Analogies for Those That Like Them
Quote of the week
Faculty Updates for Next Year
Registration Updates
HCA to join the SOM
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MBA Office Updates This is the busiest weekend of the summer at the SOM. SDM is running all weekend. Comm Strat meets all day Saturday. There will be a ton of students around, so if you are coming in to study or prep you might want to head to the library as all the study rooms are booked! But, after June 15, many of you will feel that the semester starts a new rhythm that will feel more balanced! Sports Analogies for Those That Like Them So many to choose from this week! World cup soccer begins, the Nationals young pitcher that struck out 14 in his major league debut, UCLA women winning the softball title, but the legacy of John Wooden is the one I have chosen. Some have called him the greatest coach that we have ever seen. I read a Fox story last weekend when they talked about his leadership legacy and that players and coaches that worked with him and for him said that “he made them better people”. Strong values, strong work ethic, a commitment to excellence in everything he did. His accomplishments are awesome. 7 straight NCAA titles, 4 consecutive 30-0 seasons at the Division 1 level, the record of 88 consecutive wins that the UConn women are chasing! The sense I got as I read these stories was that he led by example, he treated people with respect and he was an unbelievable role model. What do you hope your leadership legacy will be? It will be unique, because it is yours and all of us have different things that are important to us. But an interesting question to ponder someday, when you have a chance to reflect on where you are now and where you hope to go in the future. “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”--Pericles As many of you know, the summer is traditionally a busy time for faculty changes and while it looks like we have a lot, many of our changes are a confluence of individual decisions that have no common thread! We have 3 faculty retiring: Debbie Kolb, Bruce Warren and Barbara Sawtelle. Barbara will finish up with at the end of the summer with her Econ class. Bruce and Debbie will become faculty emeriti but will be coming back to teach a couple of courses next year. Bruce will be teaching two UG law classes and Debbie will teach MBA Negotiations in the spring term. Susan Hass returns from sabbatical in the fall, Stacy Blake Beard goes out on sabbatical this fall. Nataliya Zaiats returns to the SOM to teach in spring, Hugh Colaco has taken a new job at Merrimack, Vipin Gupta a new job at Cal State-San Bernardino, both great opportunities for them! Paul Myers has decided to return home to Colorado and either continue teaching out there or do some consulting but our hope is that he will consider teaching an elective for us in the future! Mary Finlay will be joining the faculty of the SOM in January, Deb Marlino is our new interim Dean, Susan Sampson is our new interim Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum. The difference between Strategy 1 and Strategy 1/SDM: Strategy 1 is designed for students that entered the SOM in September 2009 or later. The Strategy 1/SDM section was designed for returning students in process BEFORE September 2009. The weekend after the MLK holiday in January has been held for the final section of Strategy1/SDM. The difference is that Strat 1 is designed for brand new MBA students with no coursework yet and the Strat 1/SDM section was designed for students with significant coursework already completed! Registration Opens June 16th! Fall registration materials were emailed out last week. The email included a cover letter, elective descriptions, and the course synopsis. We also included a master elective/concentration document that you should find helpful. Please review all the information carefully. This email has been sent out twice! Health Care Administration will officially move to the SOM as of July 1 and be part of our school, which is great news for us and they are excited!! We will have 5 faculty and staff moving over from SHS. Congratulations to Jenna Toplin! Jenna received the NEHRA Future Stars in HR scholarship this past week at their annual breakfast! Fall Registration Information will be released Friday, June 4 Please read it carefully, as it has information about the concentrations, as well as other important information. Congratulations to Professor Lynda Moore Professor Moore’s body of research provides cross cultural and global
perspectives in the study of women’s leadership identity and behavior. Her
publications examine ethnocentric research models and the development of
inclusive and global leadership theory. Recent studies have included research
on women leaders in the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and India.
Additional research includes the examination of gender, diversity and
inclusion in Muslim majority countries. Her extensive publications appear in
US and international journals, and have examined women in management and
diversity, women entrepreneurs with an emphasis on women of color, and
studies of women leaders and family business in a global context. Professor Moore was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to teach and conduct
research on corporate women leaders in the United Arab Emirates. She
teaches gender, leadership and inclusion at the Indian School of Business,
Hyderabad. In addition, her contribution to the field of leadership research
and practice resulted in her recent appointment as a Fellow of the Leadership
Trust Foundation, UK, the oldest leadership development organization in
the UK. Please join me in congratulating Lynda on this position. |
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Career Services Updates
Girls in Tech Girls in Tech Boston is excited to announce our first biotech focused event, coming up on Thursday, June 17th at the Microsoft NERD Center. We have a truly fantastic line-up of speakers from a wide range of biotech companies, and we'll be announcing our moderator in the coming weeks. We hope you join us for an evening of professional development, learning from experts and leaders in the field, and networking with other women in the biotech field. And of course drinks and hor d'oeuvres!
Your Personal Brand isn't complete without a great head shot! Possible times: June 26 & 27th or July 10th &11th
Mass Innovation Nights
CONFERENCES AND EXTERNAL CAREER FAIRS FORTÉ MBA Women’s Conference www.fortefoundation.org 2010 Financial Services FAST Track Conference: How a Career in Financial Services Can Work For You www.fortefoundation.org ALPFA National Convention www.alpfa.org Asian MBA Leadership Conference & Career Fair www.asianmba.org National Black MBA Conference www.nbmbaa.org Women MBA Virtual Career Fair www.womenmbavirtualcareerfair.com National Association of Women MBAs Conference www.mbawomen.org Nonprofit Marketing Conference www.marketingpower.com/Calendar Reaching Out MBA http://www.reachingoutmba.org/ RECENT INTERNSHIP AND JOB POSTINGS NOTE: PLEASE LET LISA OR GEORGETTE KNOW IF YOU WILL BE APPLYING FOR ANY OF THESE POSITIONS, OR OTHERS ON CAREER CONNECT! INTERNSHIPS
JOB Postings
Visit Career Connect for all the latest internship and job posts.
INTERESTING CAREER ARTICLES Banks, computer rage, and the future of sustainable finance |
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