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Students in the Communications Management Program Launch the Inaugural Issue of Management Magazine
May 24, 2012
SOM Dean Cathy Minehan Honored as YWCA Key Speaker
May 10, 2012April 4, 2012
School of Mananagement Dean Cathy Minehan was recently named the keynote speaker for the YWCA's 18th Annual Academy of Women Achievers Celebration Luncheon in June.
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Simmons entrepreneur starts nonprofit to educate disabled children in Africa
March 29, 2012March 23, 2012
Non-profit management and entrepreneurship MBA student Obiageli Ukadike recognized a serious education gap in Ghana, Africa. People with physical disabilities are often shunned from mainstream society and denied access to quality education. To combat this injustice, Oby co-founded The WaWa Project, a non-profit organization aimed at providing education to physically disabled children in Ghana. The WaWa Project plans to raise approximately $2.5 million over the next five years to build a handicap accessible secondary school for children grades six through twelve. The non-profit will build the school, hire local staff and administrators and create education plans to teach students skills they can use post graduation. Oby is ecstatic about the attention her cause has received.
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Business Plan Competition For Women Entrepreneurs Nets Simmons School of Management Student Cash, Prizes
December 9, 2011
BOSTON (December 5, 2011) — An MBA student, who co-founded a non-profit organization to provide life-changing educational opportunities for children with disabilities in Ghana, recently won a business plan competition for women entrepreneurs at the Simmons School of Management in Boston.
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Simmons Student Featured as "MBA All-Star" in Boston Business Journal
October 7, 2011
BOSTON (October 7, 2011) — Simmons School of Management Student Obiageli Ukadike was featured in the Boston Business Journal as an "MBA All-Star," October 7. Ukadike discussed her "lifelong goal of helping people" through her work to build and run vocational boarding schools for teens with disabilities in Ghana. She also spoke about her Simmons education, saying it's "propelling me in places where I really needed to be."
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Simmons Entrepreneur Ashley Lucas '10, Founder of Diffuse 5, is announced as one of 125 finalists in Boston's MassChallenge competition
July 1, 2011
Simmons School of Management alumna Ashley Lucas 10', a native Bostonian and determined entrepreneur, always had an inkling that she'd be starting her own business. Little did she know that she'd be vying for a share of a million dollars in order to connect the worldwide LGBTQ community as a part of that journey. Lucas is the Founder and CEO of Diffuse 5, the go-to resource for the female branches of the LGBTQ spectrum who want to find out what's hot and happening in Boston. After completing her MBA and Certificate in Entrepreneurship in 2010, Lucas began to build her venture. Last spring Lucas launched Diffuse5.com to serve as an online access point to bring together all of the one off events that go on around the city.
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Professor Teresa Nelson will present her research at Stanford University's H-Star
June 29, 2011
July 11th, Professor Teresa Nelson will present her research at Stanford University's H-Star (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute) sponsored Triple Helix IX Conference in Palo Alto. The work with co-author Helene Ahl of Jönköping University in Sweden, compares the two countries' government infrastructure for entrepreneurship support and finds both welfare regime models wanting from a sex equality and economic growth perspective. For the U.S. in particular, the research argues that the designation of women as minorities in 1970s and 80s America needs reformulation.
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Cathy E. Minehan Named New Dean of Simmons College School Of Management
April 20, 2011April 12, 2011
A recognized business and financial expert who led the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for 13 years as President and CEO, Cathy E. Minehan has been named the new Dean of the Simmons College School of Management, the nation's first MBA program focused on women. Minehan will begin her tenure at Simmons August 1.
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Business Plan Competition for Women Entrepreneurs Nets Simmons School Of Management Graduate and Student Prizes
December 1, 2010November 9, 2010
An MBA student set to launch the first Palestinian television channel in Israel and a recent MBA graduate creating a company that will offer risk modeling software to investors in the life sciences industry, each won a cash prize and in-kind services at the fourth annual Silverman Business Plan Competition recently held at the Simmons School of Management in Boston.
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Professor Teresa Nelson Interviewed on NECN
December 1, 2010September 27, 2010
Teresa Nelson the Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor of Entrepreneurship was interviewed by Latoyia Edwards on NECN.
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Entrepreneur & Princeton Review Name Simmons School of Management Entrepreneurship Program "One of Nation's Best"
December 1, 2010September 23, 2010
The Simmons School of Management Entrepreneurship Program in Boston has once again been named one of the 25 best programs in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review, which jointly surveyed more than 2,000 business schools.
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Get Ready for the 2010 Silverman Business Plan Competition
December 1, 2010August 4, 2010
The Simmons School of Management's 4th Annual Silverman Business Plan Competition, will take place on October 28, 2010.
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Moving Up: "Daughters Running the Family Business," A March 1 Discussion at Simmons School of Managment
December 1, 2010February 23, 2010
Defying long-held cultural norms, today's daughters increasingly have the opportunity and interest to step into top leadership roles in the family enterprise.
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2010 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Series
December 1, 2010February 3, 2010
Join Simmons School of Management for the 2010 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Series, presented by the Entrepreneurship Program. Across this four-part series meet dynamic, successful leaders who are embracing entrepreneurship to create wealth, social welfare, and jobs.
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