October 4th, 2007

MBA OFFICE NEWS & EVENTS CAREER SERVICES SOM LIBRARY

Headings marked in MAROON represent previously posted information; those marked in BLUE represent new information.

The mission of the Simmons School of Management is to educate women for power and principled leadership. We are committed to the advancement of knowledge and practice in management through excellence in education and research. Our academic programs offer rigorous, applied, management education designed for women. We focus on leadership, and our programs integrate the strategic, functional, and behavioral aspects of management. SOM students gain the knowledge, analytical skills, and confidence that they need to manage successfully in dynamic and global environments. We are invested in our students’ success and support them as they launch, advance, and change their careers.

New Information This Week

Note from Mary D.

Quote of the Week
Schedule Updates for Week of 10/01 - 10/06
Columbus Day SOM Building Schedule
Invitation for the SOM Office of Development and Alumnae Relations
Last Call for Case Room Flag Requests
Wine and Cheese social event on October 4^th
MBTA T Passes Are In!
Get Your SOM Student Business Cards Now!
The 2^nd Annual Silverman Business Plan Competition
Simmons SOM Cordially invites you…

MBA Office Updates


Note From Mary D.

Returning students know that I love sports analogies and it is tough to pick between the Patriots and the Red Sox. But, the common theme of both of their seasons so far is long term goals and checkpoint successes. They both have end goals-winning the Super Bowl (football), winning the World Series (baseball), but they have milestones along the way that give them the boost of confidence they need. For the Patriots it is starting the season 4-0; for the Red Sox it is winning the division. Many of you are now going into first exams, papers and other deliverables of the fall term and it will be the first checkpoint of the fall term. Build on your successes, learn from what you could have done differently and know that you have lots of opportunities left in the semester to use as other checkpoints of the term. It is also a long weekend for many of you. Try and take some time off to reconnect with your family and friends, or go to a movie or even sleep in later than usual!!

Quotes of the Week

"A dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price." --Vince Lombardi.

Schedule Updates for Week of 10/01 – 10/06

****Columbus Day October 8^th, 2007 No Day Classes****

Financial Reporting and Accounting (B) Case Room 2 October 8^th, 2007 6-9p.m.

Finance (B) Case Room1 October 8^th, 2007 6-9p.m

Tea with: Roslyn “Ros” Jaffe October 12^th, 2007 Dean’s Conference Room 2:30-3:30p.m.

The 2^nd Annual Silverman Business Plan Competition Friday, October 12th 4 p.m.

Columbus Day SOM Building Schedule

On Columbus Day there is no day classes however there will be evening classes. The SOM facilities will be open from 8:30p.m. to 9p.m. The only access to the building will be from the front door 409 Commonwealth Avenue. For the Libraries schedule please refer to the Library Updates section.

Invitation for the SOM Office of Development and Alumnae Relations

ODAR would like to extend an invitation to all MBA students to attend Reunion activities here at the SOM on Saturday, October 13th from 8:30 am to 7:00 pm. A full description of the day's events can be found at www.alumnet.simmons.edu/somreunion. Take advantage of this opportunity for professional development and networking with our SOM alumnae from the classes of 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2002. Call Abbie Mohlin at 617.521.3825 or email her at abigail.mohlin@simmons.edu if you are interested in attending any portion of the day.

Last Call for Caseroom Flag Requests

This is a final call for any new flag requests for the SOM caserooms.

The countries that we currently or will soon have displayed are: United States, Canada, Cape Verde, Catalonia, China, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Slovakia, Pakistan, Poland, Indonesia, Monaco, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Morocco, Panama, South Africa, Spain, Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, Finland, Guyana, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Ireland, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Columbia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, South Korea, and Japan.

If you do not see your country of origin or affiliation in the above list and you would like to add it to the collection, please email Carolyn at carolyn.bogle@simmons.edu by Friday, October 5th.


Wine and Cheese social event on October 4^th

Please join us on Thursday, October 4, from 3:15-5:45 for a little wine, a little cheese, and lots of good company. Stop by the Oval Dining Room (near the MBA Office) after class or before class to hang out with your classmates and meet people from other tracks. Non-alcoholic beverages and other snacks will be available, too.

This event is sponsored by the Simmons Social Club. For more info or to be part of future events, please contact Heather Lantz at heather.lantz@simmons.edu.

MBTA T Passes Are In!

For the students that have requested MBTA bus passes for October 2007, they are available and ready for pickup at the MBA Office. Come by the MBA Office and ask Paola and she will give you your bus pass.

Get Your SOM Student Business Cards Now!

If you are interested in ordering student business cards, please email Paola in the MBA Office at paola.mateo@simmons.edu with the following details:

Your Name (exactly as you would like it to appear on the cards)
Your Class Year (it will read "MBA Candidate '08")
Contact Number (you can list up to two - home, cell, work, or fax)
Email Address

The cards will cost somewhere between $30 - $40 for 250, and take about three weeks to arrive to the SOM. To reflect consistency across the Simmons campuses, no additional information can be added to the business cards other than the fields listed above.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ORDERING BUSINESS CARDS, PLEASE EMAIL PAOLA BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 1st. This is the one and only call for business card orders this semester, so please be sure to submit your requests by the aforementioned date. Any students who miss the deadline will have a chance to reorder during the upcoming Spring 2008 semester.

News & Events

The 2^nd Annual Silverman Business Plan Competition

When: Friday, October 12th 4 PM
Where: 409 Commonwealth Ave. Boston
To RSVP please call Abbie Mohlin at (617) 521-3825 or e-mail her at abigail.mohlin@simmons.edu

The Silverman Business Plan Competition, generously funded by a gift from Lois Silverman and support from the class of 2002, brings together Simmons School of Management alumnae, faculty, and the entrepreneurial community to celebrate and encourage aspiring female entrepreneurs. On this day a group of three finalists present their plans for new business concepts to a panel of established entrepreneurs who will award $10,000 in prize. This event is followed by a followed by an address by Lois Silverman and a reception for all guests from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. The Silverman Business Plan Competition winners will be announced during the reception.

Simmons SOM Cordially invites you…

To have Tea with: Roslyn “Ros” Jaffe

Co-founder of Dress Barn and former Board Member and alumna of Simmons College

When: October 12^th, 2007
Location: Dean’s Conference Room
Time: 2:30-3:30p.m.

Ros Jaffe is the Co-Founder of The Dress Barn, Inc (NASDAQ-DBRN), a leading national specialty apparel retailer offering quality career and casual fashion apparel through its dressbarn and maurices brands. Together with her husband, Elliott, who joined soon after the launch of the business, Ros built the company into a multiple store chain offering customers the very latest in women’s fashion with a reputation for quality, style, value, and customer service. Today the company operates over 800 dressbarn stores in 46 states, as well as 607 maurices stores in 42 states. Today, Ros remains Director Emeritus, and Secretary and Treasurer of the company.

Ros is also the Co-Founder and Member of the Board of the Jaffe Family Foundation, the Co-Founder of The Jaffe Center for Food Allergy at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, and Founding Member of Osteoporosis Business Coalition. A graduate of Simmons College, class of 1950, Ros attended the College’s Prince School of Retailing.

Career Services Updates

TIME SENSITIVE – MBA Rotational and Management Development Programs

DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND ON CAREER CONNECT (https://www.myinterfase.com/simmons/student/)

Bank of America presentation on campus

Commercial Banking Leadership Program

Global Treasury Services Leadership Program

Tuesday October 9^th, Mockler Case Room 1

RSVP- by October 4^th to julie.barenholtz@simmons.edu

State Street – DEADLINE 10/31/07

Global Markets Professional Development Program – Starting September, 2008

MGH (Massachusetts General Hospital) - DEADLINE 11/1/07

Administrative Fellowship Program

Recent Job Postings – Visit Career Connect

- Director Product Development and Implementation - Healthcare Analytics, Inc

- Grants Administrator I- Partners Healthcare System Inc.

- Head of School - DEADLINE OCT 26, 2007 - Touchstone School

- Community Consultant - Communispace Corporation

- Vice President of Fund Development - Hallmark Health

- Market Research Consultant- New Ventures For Value Added Services - Blue Cross Blue  

   Shield of Massachusetts

Recent Internship Postings – Visit Career Connect

- MBA Internship in Human Services – STEP, Inc

- Entrepreneurship and equity financing internship- Center for Women and Enterprise

As a reminder, please keep your Career Connect profile up to date. If you forgot your username and password, please contact julie.barenholtz@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 Julie.

Outside Networking & Career Events

Outside networking and career events will be posted in detail on Career Connect. Below serves as a brief reminder of upcoming events. You can register for Career Connect at: https://www.myinterfase.com/simmons/student/home.aspx

Reaching Out: LGBT MBA Conference

Thursday – Sunday, October 11 – 14, 2007

Westin St. Francis in Union Square, San Francisco, California.

Women@Work Network

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

10:00 am - 12:00pm at The Wellesley College Club in Wellesley, MA

Executive Diversity Career Fair

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

10:00am -5:00pm, in Washington, D.C.

The Partnership Inc. Career Connection

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

4:00pm- 7:00pm Dorothy Quincy Suite 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA

Hire Purpose MBA Job Forum

Friday, October 26, 2007

9:00am- 4:00pm, Marriott Boston Copley Place, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

Interesting Career Articles

How to Properly Tailor Your Management Style

As a manager, your job is to intuit the needs of your employees and give them the right combination of attention, feedback and praise to keep them motivated. But the diverse range of personalities populating today's work force sometimes makes it difficult to determine how to do that.

Excerpt: “…..The 'get it done' type: Make your expectations crystal clear and keep your conversations short. The "get it done type" is less interested in process than being given the tools required to meet his mandate….”

For complete article: http://www.careerjournal.com/myc/management/20071001-loeb.html?cjcontent=mail

Top 8 Strategies for Entrepreneurial Success

Are you self-motivated? Confident and persistent? Creative and flexible? Charismatic, independent and decisive? Organized? If so, congratulations! You exhibit many of the traits that characterize successful entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial success requires a diversity of talents, a broad range of knowledge, a passion to succeed and a can-do attitude.

Here are eight strategies to get you and your company started down the road to entrepreneurial excellence.

Visit the Career Connect resource library – career articles folder for complete article: https://www.myinterfase.com/simmons/student/home.aspx

Library Updates

Holiday Hours

The library hours for the Columbus Day weekend are as follows: Saturday, October 6: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Sunday, October 7: Closed and Monday, October 8, Columbus Day: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm and 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm.

Need Help with Citing Your Sources

The library has an online guide to creating a bibliography and using citation styles: http://my.simmons.edu/library/bibliography/. This guide includes examples from citation styles such APA, Chicago and MLA.

Part-time Graduate Student Library Assistants

The library is looking for Part-time Graduate Student Library Assistants.
Day/Evening/Weekend hours are available. If interested, please contact Kathy Berger, SOM Assistant Librarian, at 617-521-3847 or e-mail kathleen.berger@simmons.edu for an application.

Recommended Reading from the SOM Library…

Stop by the library and take a look at our display of books by SOM Faculty.

Take a look at “Top Small Workplaces 2007” in the Monday, October 1, 2007 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

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