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SOM in the News - July 21, 2005

Filed under SOM News and Events
Posted by , July 20, 2005
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Women’s Business:
In the article “Today’s Learners, Tomorrow’s Leaders”, Dr. Deborah Merrill-Sands, introduced as a “leader of an institution that is striving to make a significant difference in student’s lives and learning” responds to questions regarding the state of higher education today. She is positioned alongside of Jackie Jenkins-Scott, president of Wheelock College and Eileen Moran Brown, founder and chancellor of Cambridge College.

Articles written by SOM alumnae include Joan Cirillo, executive director of Operation A.B.L.E. and Ruth Lague, principal of Dovetail Interactive.

Alumna Susan Hodgkinson is listed as one of Women’s Business Readers “Top 10 executive coaches”.

Wendy D’Ambrose is quoted in “Sell Yourself Despite A Buyer’s Market” which is addressed to MBA graduates.

There’s a two-page feature on findings from the “New Work Force Reality” - the survey by the Simmons School of Management and Bright Horizons Family Solutions, which was designed to understand the motivation of today’s workforce and likely priorities of the future as employers embrace for an upcoming shortage of workers in the next decade.

Boston Globe:
Great piece by Diane Lewis regarding Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair in Sunday’s BostonWorks section. The opener is as follows: “Simmons, Deloitte create leadership chair”. Simmons School of Management in Boston and Deloitte & Touche, the professional services firm, have joined forces to form an endowed chair that will study and recommend strategies for helping women become top leaders. Called the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership, the chair is designed to “help shape the national discourse on women and leadership,” according to Simmons. Deborah Kolb, a professor at the management school who specializes in gender issues in negotiation as well as conflict management, has been named the first Deloitte chair. Kolb is the co-author of “The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master The Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success.”

Also, Deloitte Establishes National Chair to Advance Women as Leaders was the headline on accountingweb.com.

SOM/Bright Horizons New Workforce Reality Study
The headline “Most men agree with women: Life Outside of Work is of Equal or More Importance than Their Jobs” was nicely positioned in the Boston Globe on Tuesday in a piece by Diane Lewis.

Fiona Wilson, study co-author, was interviewed by WBZ and the segment aired sveral times over two days —July 12 and 13. In fact, one of our students wrote:

“This morning while I was listening to the weather report, I heard a very familiar voice on WBZ…Just thought I would tell you that you were fabulous…so much so that I woke my daughter so that she could listen..as this was sent out over PR newswire and will be appearing on web sites and other national venues.”