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General Information

Attention Class of 2003: Get a Jump Start on Networking with SOM Alumnae!
The class of 2003 is already eligible to join a lively email discussion group of SOM alumnae. The group is moderated, in a low-key minimal way, by Peg Kelley '88, and has more than 90 members. All SOM alumnae are invited, and current students may subscribe in the June before graduation. Topics include job opportunities, events of interest to alumnae and working women, requests for information, news of business funding options...and more. How to join? Go to http://www.yahoo.com and click on Groups/Clubs in the "connect" area toward the top of the home page. This will bring you to a page that says, "What is a Group?" and "Join a Group." Under "Join a Group" enter simmonssom (all lowercase and no spaces) and select search. Now you will be at the group page. If you're already a member of Yahoo, then just click "sign in" on the upper right. If you're not a member of Yahoo, click on "register" on the upper right, and enter the requested information. It's FREE. You will then be admitted to the list. Peg will send you a welcome note to confirm your subscription. (It takes more words to describe the process than time to do it!) If you have any questions or difficulty subscribing, contact Peg at 617.926.4845 or via email at kelley@facplus.com.

GRADUATION REMINDERS
*Graduation is three weeks from tomorrow!!

*Please RSVP to the Dean’s Reception at 521-3888 as soon as possible, if you are planning to attend

*Waiting List for extra tickets - we will be contacting students to doublecheck that you still need extra graduation tickets and the number. If students know that they are not using their tickets, please give them to the MBA office so that we can redistribute them.

*Extra Tickets to the Dean’s Reception must be purchased in the MBA office by July 25.

*Tickets to Graduation - your guests must have a ticket to enter graduation on August 8. Many students have not yet picked them up and we encourage you to get them.

Important Dates:
July 22, Dean’s roundtable, 5:15-6pm
July 28, Alumnae Association party, 4:30-6:30pm
July 29, Final Graduation meeting, 5:15-5:50pm
August 2, Graduation party at the West St. Grille, 7pm
August 5, Dean’s roundtable, 5:15-6pm

Graduation Announcements
Students can request graduation announcements via Paula in the MBA Office. Please respond by July 25 if you are interested in receiving announcements. Students can receive 20 announcements at no cost.
The announcement will read:

Simmons School of Management is pleased to announce that xxx has completed the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration, August 8, 2003.

Please email Paula at paula.donaldson@simmons.edu. Remember to include your name as you would like it to appear on the announcement and how many you'd like.

REGISTRATION
Registration will close on July 18 and many students have yet to register. Please register as book orders, coursepacks, section offerings and many other issues relate to numbers of students enrolled.

GRADUATION
Round table change-We are going to move the final dean's roundtable from July 29 to August 5 to not conflict with the final graduation meeting! Signups are in Mockler for July 22 and August 5. They will be held in the Dean's Conference Room on the 2nd floor of 409.

Graduation speaker results
Tiffany Hogan and Danny Levy have been voted by the class to represent the day and evening program. Congratulations!!

Entrepreneurship Professor Looking for Student Research Assistants: Entrepreneurship has always been a vibrant force in the economy, and at the forefront of adaptation and growth of new markets. Research is needed to identify success factors, including the strategies, opportunities, and barriers confronting women-owned enterprises.

Assistance is needed on several projects that begin to examine how women entrepreneurs utilize their knowledge, resources, and innovation capabilities to recognize and evaluate strategies and opportunities within their respective industries.

Some of the responsibilities (and skill set) would include:
• Assist in identifying and assisting women entrepreneurs and their organizations create and facilitate new growth for their organizations.

• Engage in library and Internet research work in order to be exposed to recent articles in the areas of entrepreneurship strategy and innovation.

• Communicate with entrepreneurs who have questions or concerns as they answer and complete feedback questionnaires.

• Assist in the data collection and data entry process by finding secondary information on the women-owned businesses that participated in the research (e.g., both financial and non-financial data from Hoovers Online, Standard & Poor’s, etc.).

• Analyze the results of the research by examining the correlations and other descriptive statistics for each of the variables of interest (using Excel, SPSS; will be used to test proposed models).

• Formulate recommendations and strategic implications for women entrepreneurs based on overall results.

• Assist in the writing of a manuscript that will be submitted for review to a conference (e.g., Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management) and revised for a refereed journal (e.g., Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice).

Information regarding some of the projects can be found at: http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkickul/projects.htm as well as a recent manuscript on women entrepreneurs in regards to technology change and growth (http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkickul/wom.pdf)

If interested, feel free to contact Jill Kickul (Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor in Entrepreneurship) at 521-3877 or email, jill.kickul@simmons.edu for additional information.

OPEN PRESENTATIONS-ALL STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF WELCOME

Consulting class - July 21, 6-7:30pm. Panel members include Olivia Wakefield Lee, Towers Perrin, Judy Cannon, independent consultant to real estate development companies, Frank Cullen, former president of Keystone Associates, now with Cullen Associates, Joanne Doherty, Director of HR, Harvard University

BGGE Country Presentations, 6-9pm, July 22 and July 31

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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!

CSO Summer Schedule:
The CSO will be open all summer to assist you with your career search.
Our hours are:
Monday - Thursday, 8:45 am - 5:30 pm
The office will be closed on:
Friday, July 25th Friday,
August 8th Friday,
September 12th.

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!
Analyst, Nucleus Research
Director, Advisory Services, Catalyst
Assistant Director of Marketing, CASPS, Simmons College
Director, Acquisitions, The Enterprise Social Investment Corporation
Director of Event Services, Boston Coach

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

Note: Library staff updates - Denise will be on vacation July 10-31.

Have you seen?

Business Week, July 21 issue - contains The Fortune Global 500 list.

Business Week, July 14 issue - contains The Latest Ranking of Top Global Companies

Working Mother, August 2003 issue - The cover story is What Real Leaders Look Like

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

*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

STAFFED HOURS
If you need to reach a lab manager and Bill Porter is not present, you may call a lab manager at the main campus for assistance at x2769. Here are their hours.

Main Campus Lab Summer Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
Sunday 12 - 6pm

SOM Lab Summer (staffed) Hours:
Mondays - Thursday 4pm-7:30pm (Bill is around from 9am - 4pm)
Friday - Sunday 12pm-4pm

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.

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SOM in the News

Katie Henchir '04, was recently published in the July '03 issue of BioPharm International Magazine. Her article, Validation Outsourcing: Getting the Most for Your Client-Contractor Relationship, focuses on establishing successful client-contractor relationships for a specific discipline (Validation) in the pharmaceutical industry. The article offers a four step strategy, covering the initial engagement, the proposal, implementation, and follow-up.

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 June 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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