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General Information

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Students will receive their packet of information for Fall 2004 registration this week. You will also receive a letter outlining some curriculum changes for Fall 2004 that may affect your registration. Please read this letter!!

GRADUATION UPDATES
Lee Durocher and Printha McCallum have been voted by their class to represent the day and night programs as the student speakers. Anne Kirby and Donna Desmond have been voted by their class to be the class marshals for the day and night programs. Key information from the first graduation meeting will be posted on the graduation Webct site this week.

REMINDER ABOUT THE DEAN and STEVE SENGE’s FAREWELL PARTY
Wednesday, June 30, 4:30-6pm, 409 lobby. All students are invited and we hope you can come!!

MBA OFFICE OVER THE 4th OF JULY
The MBA office will be closed on Monday, July 5. No classes are scheduled in either the day or evening program.

NOTE FROM MARY D
We are ending week 9 of the semester and it is the time of the year traditionally that is really hard to stay focused and motivated. GrThe 4th of July holiday cannot come quick enough for most students! We have had the first graduation meeting, BGGE and Op’s have both finished their midterms and many electives are winding down. You have two more pushes… one is now and the other is the month of July. Hang in there!! The 4th of July holiday is a week away and I hope everyone takes the long weekend to do something fun! Go to a cookout, the beach, the movies!! Do something to recharge your batteries for the July push and know that the MBA office and your faculty are here to help if you need us!!

Note from Class Gift Committee

Leah Antonopoulos, Co-Chair
Casey Watts, Co-Chair

Marisol Arroyave               Maria Scinicariello
Lisa Cronin                       Jessica Stitt
Lee Durocher                    Erica Rishel
Lora Nielsen                     Maureen West

If you haven’t heard The Class Gift of 2004 has been chosen! The class has decided to honor its legacy with The Corporate Outreach Initiative, which sponsors three corporate executives to visit the school for five years. To support this goal we need to raise a minimum of $25,000 in pledges and gifts before we graduate in August 2004. The committee challenges you to honor your legacy and help our class extend this gift this gift for years to come. We need 100% participation, hard work, and creativity to reach our goal. A committee member will be speaking with you soon about the process and the incentives involved with giving. The SOM appreciates your generosity and support.

News from Executive Education
The SOM is delighted to welcome Martha Sheehan, SOM Alumane’01, as the Director of Executive Education. Martha joined the department in May. Her background includes more than a decade of experience in both higher education and private industry, most recently at the Babson School of Executive Education where she recruited founding corporate members, developed programs and deliverables and managed faculty research for the newly minted Institute for Process Management, a research program at Babson SEE. Prior to Babson, Martha was the Associate Executive Director at the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council (MTC), a 300 member industry association where she increased corporate membership and sponsorships, while running more than twenty-five programs annually, overseeing internal operations and working closely with a forty-nine member board of industry leaders. Before the MTC, Martha was the Director of Graduate Admissions at Wheelock College, where she worked closely with faculty chairs to identify potential markets and customize programs to meet market needs, resulting in a 30% increase in student enrollment. Prior to Wheelock, Martha was the vice president of Business Management Concepts (BMC), a management consulting firm, where she sold consulting services to university business administrators designed to teach them how to improve auxiliary services and maximize profit potential. As VP, Martha crafted proposals, made presentations, negotiated fees, landed contracts and provided services to more than 30 accounts, including landing BMC’s largest client, the Massachusetts State College system.

In responding to the question of how she views her role as Director of Executive Education, Martha stated, “I chose to pursue my M.B.A. at Simmons because I share with Simmons, a deep commitment to economic transformation and at the same time, recognize the practical need to collaborate with established systems and resources in order to accomplish the goal of making a real, measurable difference in the lives of women. I look forward to applying my skills to encourage women to pursue the kinds of educational and leadership opportunities that have typically not been available to them by attending to the SOM’s mission to educate women for positions of leadership and power.” Please join us in joining Martha to the Simmons family!

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.

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.

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Career Services Office

To all of you who were able to participate in last Thursday's Career Expo, thank you for helping us showcase Simmons SOM! We hope you found the event informative and enjoyable!

CSO Office Hours For the Week of the DNC
Mon. (July 26th) 12pm - 5pm
Tues. (July 27th) 9am - 2:30pm
Wed. (July 28th) 9am - 2:30pm
Thurs. (July 29th) 9am - 2:30pm
Fri. (July 30th) Office Closed

Trends - Some of the latest Career-Related news!

Corporate Competitions Can Lead to Job Offers

Read on at: http://www.careerjournal.com/hrcenter/articles/20040608-maher.html

New Opportunities: Don't forget to check Career Connect on a regular basis!
Just Added this week
Director of Admissions - Mass College of Liberal Arts

*Also, please note that all of the MBA Rotational Program descriptions have been available in Career Connect prior to June 17th (SOM Career Expo) - We now have amended some of that information after speaking with the hiring managers. You may search for program descriptions by logging into Career Connect; go to Job Search choose "MBA Rotational Program (full time)" under Position Type.

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.

Click below to login:

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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. Registration for this session is on a first come first serve basis and will be limited to 25 students. There are six spaces left on the sign-up sheet. 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…..

Business 2.0 - July 2004 issue - "How Intel Grooms Its Leaders"

Fortune - June 28, 2004 issue - "50 Best Companies for Minorities"

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.