General Information

Schedule Changes & Course Information

Financial Aid Information

Meetings & Events

Career Services Office

Library

Computer Lab

SOM in the News

General Information

MBA OFFICE CLOSED JULY 4th
Please note the MBA Office will be closed on July 4th. We will see you Monday!

GRADUATION
Graduation run off ballots are in all graduating student boxes and are due to the graduation mailbox or the MBA office by July 1.

RSVP line for the Dean’s reception is open at 521-3888

Minutes from the first graduation meeting will be posted on the graduation webct site and the web.

Class marshals for this year are Patricia Noe and Shirley Jones Luke

Exit interviews with Mary D can be scheduled anytime til graduation. She is buying the iced coffee or the ice cream!

Round Tables with the Dean are scheduled for 5pm on July 8, 22 and 29. Signups will be in Mockler.

All student account balances must be paid by July 15 to be included in the final graduation information. Students should be in contact with Student Accounts if there is a problem.

Reminder-June 27 is the last day to get on the waiting list for extra tickets with Mary D to be in the lottery.

REGISTRATION
Fall registration information will be in your mailboxes by Monday, June 30 and available online next week. Registration opens July 8-July 18. This is a delay of one day from the announcement from last week’s update.

A section of Public Speaking has been added to the fall on Tuesday nights.

RED SOX SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING HOME GAMES IN JULY AND AUGUST
July 17-27 is the only home series in July
August 5-6 are scheduled games in August and then you are done for the summer!

Please make notes in your calendar as it significantly affects parking in the area.

FINANCE CLUB
I am looking for a student to run the Finance Club. I will help get it going in the new academic year. A student with an Accounting or Finance background would benefit the most from this experience. It is a lot of fun and a great experience. If you are interested, please contact me at diehl@simmons.edu.

Simmons Consulting Group - Reception
You are cordially invited to the Simmons Consulting Group (SCG) Annual Reception on July 8, 2003. Please join fellow students, alumnae and other professionals from the Boston area for some wine, cheese, and stimulating conversation. Please follow the attached link for more details. http://www.evite.com/lia.novotny@simmons.edu/SCG

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Career Services Office

July is Negotiation Preparation Month
Keep an eye on your student mailbox for the next CSO bookmark with great tips for researching salary standards and preparing for negotiations with potential employers!

INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR JOHNSON & JOHNSON?
J & J is actively looking to recruit Simmons SOMers. Any students who have experience in science, medical/nursing, sales, or marketing and who are interested in learning more, please contact Wendy at 617-521-3854 or dambrose@simmons.edu. Also, please be sure that you have completed your student profile in our new Career Connect System and uploaded your current resume! Thank you.

IF YOU'RE NOT CHECKING Career Connect, HERE'S WHAT YOU COULD BE MISSING!
Chief Financial Officer, Tom's of Maine
Managing Director, Squashbusters
Director Of Communications, Appalachian Mountain Club
Director of Marketing, Vera Wang, Wennik and Motta (Recruiter)

Career Connect is here!!
To view full descriptions of these jobs and many more, please visit our NEW AND IMPROVED on-line job database Career Connect!! If you have any questions about Career Connect, do not hesitate to contact Diana at 617.521.3857 or diana.cook@simmons.edu or any other CSO Team member.

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Library

4th of July weekend hours: The library will have normal staffed hours on July 2-3 and July 5-6. The library will be unstaffed on Friday, July 4th.

Note: Library staff updates – Kathy Berger is on vacation until Monday, July 7. Denise will be on vacation July 10-31. Latifa Sasso, our Dix scholar library assistant, will be returning to Switzerland on Thursday, July 10. We will miss Latifa and her valuable help to the library, but look forward to welcoming her back next January.

Have you seen?

Fortune magazine, July 7 issue – features list of 50 best companies for minorities,

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/diversity

This recent piece from the Boston Business Journal:

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2003/06/23/daily27.html?f=et54

Academy of Management Review, July 2003 – special topic forum on corporate governance (focus of entire issue, should be available online via Business Source Premier next month) – hard copy in library

*New books in the library:

How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market by Gerald Zaltman
Leaders Talk Leadership: Top Executives Speak Their Minds Edited by Meredith D. Ashby and Stephen A. Miles

Back-Fire: Carly Fiorina’s High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard by Peter Burrows

Value-Based Fees: How to Charge and Get What You’re Worth by Alan Weiss

Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life by Terrence E. Deal and Allan A. Kennedy

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra

Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia by Christopher Byron

Leading Out Loud: Inspiring Change Through Authentic Communication by Terry Pearce

Leading in Black and White: Working Across The Racial Divide in Corporate America by Ancella B. Livers and Keith A. Caver

Special note to BGGE students: If neither Denise or Kathy are in the library, please ask our student workers for help – they are well-trained for BGGE questions and can also assist you.

International Marketing Students – be sure and tap into our Dashboard database since it’s international in scope!

Database update – FIS Online is now Mergent Online - so you’ll now find the link in the “M” portion of the A-Z database list. Also, the database interface is slightly different – please ask if you have any difficulties! Reminder – our license provides for 3 simultaneous users so you may sometimes get a busy signal.

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Computer Lab

LAB MANAGEMENT
Bill Porter (Media Services) will be out form June 26th - July 8th. Computer Lab managers from the main campus will be staffing the lab during the day. If no one is available call x2769 for assistance. For media questions and request call the main campus media lab at x2765.

LAB AVAILABILITY
The lab will not be staff on July 3rd and 4th. Sorry for the inconvenience.

PRINTING
Please note that PDF files and other documents that contain graphics or are memory hungry take longer to print than your common Word document. We have also noticed that some PDF's cannot print successfully in WebCT. If you experience this issue, try emailing the PDF file to yourself and then try printing from your webmail account.

Also, printing from the color ink-jet printer takes longer than the laser-jet. Please be patient and refrain from sending multiple print jobs of the same document to the printer.

TECHNICAL TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS
Check out the Technology Resource Center Workshop Catalog and sign up for classes -- free of charge!
The summer catalogs are NOW available in the Computer Lab. You can sign up for workshops at http://academia.simmons.edu/training.html.

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SOM in the News

The 24th Annual Simmons Leadership Conference held April 26, continues to receive press attention throughout the country, with its celebrity speakers and high-energy discussions on business. The day-long event has most recently appeared in the Galveston County (TX) Daily News.

Stacy Blake-Beard, Ph.D., SOM Professor and Research Faculty at the Center for Gender in Organizations, continues to receive press coverage for her research on the growing importance of women mentors. According to Blake-Beard’s study, the number of women receiving mentoring assistance from other women is rising, and this “may signal that more women are in positions where they may act as mentors.” The mentoring research has most recently appeared in the Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer.

SOM Professor Fiona Wilson ’SOM 97 and Associate Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands presented the findings from the research study, “Teen Girls on Business: Are they being empowered?” at the Annual Conference of the National Coalition of Girls Schools held in Charleston, SC on July 25. The Teen Girls on Business study provides a rich understanding of how middle and high school girls view business as a career and life opportunity. The Charleston presentation also received local media coverage in the Charleston Regional Business Journal on June 30.

The Simmons Prince Program in Retail Management was featured in the June 16 Hartford Courant in the article “As Texas A&M, 6 New England Schools Know, There’s Money in Managing.” The article gave a brief review the program’s history and its current focus and direction.

Professor Susan Sampson, Director of the Simmons Prince Program in Retail Management, was featured in the Tricks of the Trade column on the front page of the July 2 Wall Street Journal’s Personal Journal. In the article “A Retail Professor Shops,” Sampson says consumers don’t understand their power to negotiate on price. A piece of advice from Sampson: ask for the store manager right away – she or he has greater authority to offer markdowns.

EVENTS
MBA Information Session
August 5, 2003
7:30-8:30 a.m.
451 Marlborough Street, Boston MA
RSVP at 617.521.3840 or somadm@simmons.edu

Join Dean Patricia O'Brien, alumnae, students, faculty and staff as they share their Simmons MBA experiences. Learn what it takes to earn a Simmons MBA and what it can do for your career.

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