MBA Entrepreneurship Certificate featured in Boston Phoenix
Simmons School of Management was one of four Boston-area universities featured in a Boston Pheonix story on “twists to traditional programs to equip students for the global society they will graduate into.” The Phoenix concentrates on the MBA Enterpreneurship Certificate. According to Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands, Simmons’s certificate is tailored to the special concerns of women entrepreneurs. “Social responsibility is a major area of interest to women,” says Merrill-Sands. “How do you align interest in profitability and social responsibility?”
The Phoenix also interviewed Teresa Nelson, Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor in Entrepreneurhsip, who noted that, “women are also more interested in “lifestyle businesses,” where the idea is to bring in money for other priorities in one’s life, such as travel, kids, or anything else. “The traditional model is to give up your life to start a business,” she says. “Where is the forum where you can talk about when you’ll have children, do all the things you want to do professionally, and still be true to yourself? We want to work with what our women want to do.”
For the complete story, go to the Boston Phoenix.
For more on the MBA Entrepreneurship Program, go here.
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