June 17, 2004

The mission of the Simmons School of Management is to educate women for power and leadership. Our management degree programs are designed to enhance the competence and confidence of women as they begin, further, or change their careers. Simmons students receive high quality management education in the functional, strategic, and behavioral aspects of business. Integral to our programs is the recognition of the role of gender in organizations.     

General Information

Schedule Changes & Course Information

Financial Aid Information

Meetings & Events

Student Clubs

Career Services Office

Library

Technology

SOM in the News

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New this week:
Simmons Hours During the DNC
SOM Summer Hours on Fridays
HOLD THE DATE-DEAN’S and STEVE SENGE FAREWELL PARTY!!
GRADUATION REMINDERS
Dean's Reception Guest Tickets
FALL REGISTRATION DATES
SCHEDULE REMINDERS FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 21
Financial Aid Updates
Simmons Marketing Group
Finance Club - Bloomberg Training Session

General Information

Simmons Hours During the DNC
President Cheever and the President’s Council have decided that the policy for the week of July 26 is that Simmons will open at 9:00 a.m. and close at 2:30 p.m. on July 26, 27, 28, and 29. We will close at 2:00 p.m. on July 30, consistent with the Summer Hours program.

SOM Summer Hours on Fridays
The School of Management will close every Friday at 2pm throughout the summer, this includes the MBA Office.

HOLD THE DATE-DEAN’S and STEVE SENGE FAREWELL PARTY!!
June 30, 4:30-6pm, 409 Lobby. All current students are invited and we hope you can attend!!. A formal invitation will be out by the end of the week.

GRADUATION REMINDERS
*Final Ballots are out on Graduation WebCT for student speakers for day and evening program. Voting remains open til Sunday at 10pm.
*1st graduation meeting for day, June 24 at noon
*1st graduation meeting for evening, June 23 at 5:00pm

Dean's Reception Guest Tickets
All graduating students are invited to the Deans Reception with one guest. If you would like to bring additional guests, you must bring cash or check for $25 for each guest, to the MBA Office no later than July 22nd. If you have any questions, please call Chris at 617-521-3812.

FALL REGISTRATION DATES
Fall registration dates will be from July 16 at 10am and closing July 23 at 10am. Materials will be in your boxes on June 28.

Free Technology Training
A reminder to all SOM students that technology training is available at the main campus free of charge. View the training calendar at ptrc.simmons.edu/calendar.asp to see what classes are being offered.

DEAN'S SUMMER TERM ROUNDTABLES
The Dean will host open meeting with students on the following dates:
June 23, 12-1pm
June 30, 5-6pm

Signups will be in Mockler, these are open agenda meetings with the Dean!

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Schedule Changes & Course Information

SCHEDULE REMINDERS FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 21
Investments A class has moved to the project part of the course, no class meetings for the next couple of weeks.
1st graduation meeting for day, June 24 at noon
1st graduation meeting for evening, June 23 at 5:00pm

UPDATES ON RESCHEDULED CLASSES DUE TO DEAN’S DECISION TO CANCEL CLASSES DURING DNC WEEK IN BOSTON-JULY 26-29
Strategy B will move to Thursday, July 22, 6-9pm
International Marketing A will move to Tuesday, July 20, 1-4pm
Investments A will move to June 15, 12-4pm and July 15 from 1-3pm
BGGE B meets Tuesday, August 3, 6-9pm BGGE C meets Wednesday, August 4, 6-9pm BGGE B & C meet Tuesday, July 13 (combined class), 6-9pm
BGGE B presentations are Tuesday, July 20, 6-9pm
BGGE C presentations are Wednesday, July 21, 6-9pm
Employment Law and Labor Relations will reduce the mid-class break to a "mini-break" and when necessary continue to 9:15p.m.
Operations-TBA
Entrepreneurship-TBA

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Financial Aid Information

Financial Aid Updates

Students who will graduate in August have 1 semester loans this term. One semester loans must be disbursed in 2 disbursements. The second disbursement is expected to arrive and post to your account June 17th. The Student Account Representatives will process any refunds to students within 14 calendar days of when the funds arrive at Simmons College. Refunds will be mailed to the address that is active with the Registrar's Office. If your address is not correct on the system, you are encouraged to contact the Registrar.

If you have questions about the status of your refund, please contact an |

Account Representative.
Kevin Wolf x2011
Kevin Wright x2010
Nicole Torra x2009

If you have applied for financial aid but have not received your financial aid package for summer attendance, please contact your assigned financial aid counselor immediately. Counselors are assigned by the first letter of your last name.

A-E Amanda Cornwall x2033
F-L Sharon Lightfoot x2032
M-R Leslie Czwakiel x2885
S-Z Heather Patenaude x2142

Fall semester bills will be mailed in mid-July. Any amount due that will not be covered by financial aid will be due August 15th. Fall tuition will be billed at a rate of $810 per credit. If your employer will be re-imbursing your tuition charges, you will need to contact an account representative.


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Meetings & Events

Day Track Meeting
The next meeting will be July 1st at 11:30 in Case Room 2.

INTERNAL EVENTS:

Experience an MBA Class
Do you know a woman thinking about getting an MBA? Invite her to join School of Management Professor Stacy Blake-Beard and participate in the dynamic class Leading Individuals and Groups, a course designed to enhance the development of students as effective leaders and managers. She'll experience how this class and the Simmons MBA provide opportunities to learn new ways to analyze workplace happenings, develop greater influence on the performance and effectiveness of others, diagnose power dynamics, and control one's own success

Tuesday, June 29, 2004
6 p.m., with a light dinner served at 5 p.m.
451 Marlborough Street, Boston

RSVP at 617.521.3840 or somadm@simmons.edu

EXTERNAL EVENTS:

No events this week.

 

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Student Clubs

Student Clubs at the SOM are run by and organized by SOM students. The MBA Office Staff assists with the transition from one year to the next by gathering names of interested students and by setting up each club in WebCT.

Simmons Marketing Group
The first meeting of the Simmons Marketing Group will be held next Wednesday, June 23 at 5:00 p.m, location to be announced. Please bring your great ideas for marketing and marketing-related career events!
RSVP to theresa.soltzberg@simmons.edu

Interested in getting more involved in Marketing?
Join the Simmons Marketing Group-the newest Simmons student club. As a collegiate branch of the American Marketing Association, the SMG will be able to attend events such as the end-of-year networking party of the Boston AMA chapter, as well as connect with Boston area marketing professionals for speaking engagements and events. Please contact me below if you are interested in attending a first meeting (to be scheduled).

Those of us looking for marketing jobs would also like to start meeting regularly to discuss current marketing issues in preparation for interviewing, get feedback on our marketing resumes and support during our job searches.

Contact: theresa.soltzberg@simmons.edu.

Finance Club - Bloomberg Training Session
The Finance Club and the SOM Library are pleased to offer SOM students the opportunity to participate in a training session focused on utilization of the Bloomberg terminal. This session, designed specifically for SOM students, will be offered on Friday, June 25 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. in downtown Boston, 100 Summer Street at the Bloomberg Training site.
To sign up for this session, please either come into the SOM Library or call Kathy Berger, SOM Library Assistant at 617-521-3847 by Wednesday, June 23 at 12:00 p.m. Registration for this session is on a first come first serve basis and will be limited to 25 students. You will receive a confirmation that you are registered for this session.

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Career Services Office

Trends - Some of the latest Career-Related news!

The Globe 100

Check out the 15th edition of annual ranking of Mass. Companies! http://www.boston.com/globe/business/packages/globe_100/2003/

New Opportunities: Don't forget to check Career Connect on a regular basis!
Just added this week:
Senior Program Manager - City of Boston
Manager, Branch Operations - Ryder Systems, Inc.
Director of Diversity & Cultural Competence - Children's Hospital Boston

As a reminder, please keep your Career Connect profile up to date. If you forgot your username and password, please contact diana.cook@simmons.edu or (617) 521-3857 Please do not re-register yourself as past information about you will be lost. Any questions about Career Connect? Please do not hesitate to contact Diana.

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Library

Bloomberg Training Session
The SOM Library is pleased to offer SOM students the opportunity to participate in a training session focused on utilization of the Bloomberg terminal. This session, designed specifically for SOM students, will be offered on Friday, June 25 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in downtown Boston, 100 Summer Street at the Bloomberg Training site.
To sign up for this session, please either come into the SOM Library or call Kathy Berger, SOM Library Assistant at 617-521-3847 by Wednesday, June 23 at 12:00 p.m. Registration for this session is on a first come first serve basis and will be limited to 25 students. You will receive a confirmation that you are registered for this session.

Gentle Reminder: Please do not talk on your cell phone in the library. If you need to make a call on your cell phone, please go outside of the library to make the call.

Worth a Read…..

The Economist - June 12th - 18th, 2004 issue - "Technology Quarterly"

Course packs - due to copyright regulations the library does not have copies of the course packs.

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TECHNOLOGY

Computer Lab

NEW SOFTWARE
We now have a multimedia production computer in the lab. Computer #12 in the lab (the one with the scanner) now has the following software installed on it: Macromedia Dreamweaver and the Adobe Creative Suite which includes the following programs: Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat Pro. Now you can scan and edit your images as well as build a website. If you have questions about this software please contact Bill Porter of the Technology staff.

Reminder: Food, drinks or cell phones are NOT allowed in the computer lab or study rooms, sorry. This rules will be enforced by lab staff.

Access to personal network folders in Windows XP
A Handout is available in the computer lab. It explains how to use a personal login to access your own network 100MB folder. It's a more secure alternative to saving files to the Student Data drive. Please be sure to restart lab computers after you use your personal login. Feel free to approach lab staff with questions about how this works.

Problems?
If you experience any problems with the computers please record it in the Problems Notation Log located in each study room or tell the lab staff.

LAB HOURS
The lab is open:
Monday - Saturday 7am-11pm
Sunday 7am-7pm

SOM Lab (staffed) Hours:
Monday - Thursday 4pm-7:30pm
Sat. 12 - 4pm

Bill Porter is also available for assistance Monday - Friday 9am - 4:30pm If the lab is not staffed and you need assistance call the Main Campus Lab @ x2769


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SOM in the News

SOM Professors Jill Kickul and Susan Sampson will have their paper, “Women Entrepreneurs on the Forefront of Continual Growth: Leveraging Capital Networks for Sustainable Businesses,” appear in the proceedings of the 49th Annual International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference 2004. The paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award in Women’s Entrepreneurship. Lisa Gundry of DePaul University is a co-author. Dr. Kickul has also published the paper “Work-role Expectations and Work Family Conflict: Gender Differences in Emotional Exhaustion” in the Summer issue of Women and Management Review. Margaret Posig of DePaul University is a co-author.

CGO Receives Diversity Leadership Award from the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS)
The Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) is the recipient of the Women’s Transportation Seminar’s Boston Diversity Leadership Award. The award goes to the person or organization that has exemplified a deep dedication to both leadership and diversity in work, extra curricular activities, and personal interactions. The award will be presented at the WTS’s Annual Award Dinner on June 17.

SOM Professors presented two papers at the Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference held in Glasgow, Scotland on June 2-6. Professors Jill Kickul, Fiona Wilson, and Deb Marlino presented “Are Misalignments of Perceptions and Self-Efficacy Causing Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Intentions Among Our Nations’ Teens?” In addition, Kickul present “A Cognitive Processing Model of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Intentionality” with Dr. Norris Krueger of Boise State University. Kickul also chaired a session on entrepreneurial cognition.

The Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) at the SOM has been chosen by the Boston Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar to receive the WTS-Boston Diversity Leadership Award. This award "goes to a person or organization that has exemplified a deep dedication to both leadership and diversity in work." Dr. Evangelina Holvino, CGO Director, and Dr. Deborah Merrill-Sands, SOM Associate Dean, will be receiving the award for CGO at WTS's Annual Awards Dinner on June 17th.

Dr. Evangelina Holvino, CGO Director and senior research faculty, and Dr. Stacy Blake-Beard, SOM associate professor and CGO faculty affiliate, were invited speakers at the Spelman College Leadership Symposium and Conference, held on May 12-14, 2004 at the request of Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College. The first national leadership conference of its kind, the conference was entitled Women of Color Leadership in the 21st Century: “It’s Our Turn.” Bringing together a cadre of nationally renowned leadership experts, diversity scholars, and corporate, political and community leaders, the conference attracted women of color from across the country. Dr. Holvino spoke on two panels: “Gender Schisms and Other ‘isms’: The Deadly Intersections of Women of Color,” and “The Call to Lead: Strategies for Collaborative Leadership Models and Initiatives.” Stacy Blake-Beard spoke on the panel, “Mentoring and Sponsorship for Women of Color.”

Mary Beth Borgwing SOM ’98 appeared in the May edition of Women’s Business Boston. The article featured how she has made financial services a career filled with options, and is applying the same strategy in the marketing of risk and insurance services at Marsh.

Geri Rhoades SOM ’98 also appeared in the May edition of Women’s Business Boston. Rhoades penned the article “Get the most from your business coach,” which she writes as president of Renewed Direction, Wellesley, a personal and business coaching practice.

EVENTS

Spread the word to prospective women MBA students about the upcoming SOM MBA Information Session. They’ll hear from Dean Patricia O'Brien, alumnae, students, and faculty as they talk about the Simmons MBA experience. They will learn what it takes to earn a Simmons MBA and how it will open up a world of possibilities and opportunities. Topics include the one-year accelerated program, part-time options, curriculum, career placement, financing the degree, and the application process.

MBA Information Session
Monday, June 14, 2004
6:00 p.m.
451 Marlborough Street, Boston
RSVP at 617.521.3840 or somadm@simmons.edu


Experience an MBA Class
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
6 p.m., with a light dinner served at 5 p.m.
451 Marlborough Street, Boston
RSVP at 617.521.3840 or somadm@simmons.edu

Join School of Management Professor Stacy Blake-Beard and participate in the dynamic class Leading Individuals and Groups, a course designed to enhance the development of students as effective leaders and managers. Experience how this class and the Simmons MBA provide opportunities to learn new ways to analyze workplace happenings, develop greater influence on the performance and effectiveness of others, diagnose power dynamics, and control your own success. curriculum, career placement, financing the degree, and the application process.

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