March 21, 2005
The emergence and growth of women of color-owned businesses have contributed to the global economy and to their surrounding communities. The presence of women of color driving entrepreneurial organizations has had a tremendous impact on employment and on business environments worldwide. While one in five women-owned firms is owned by a woman of color, it …
November 22, 2005
In the workshop “Tools for Institutional Change,” held November 22, 2005, 100 Boston area residents, representing more than a dozen nonprofits as well as academics and consultants, came together to look at the role they can play as “bystanders” during incidents of bias in the workplace.
Bystanders can play a pivotal role in showing that the …
June 16, 2006 to June 17, 2006
The Center for Gender in Organizations, in conjunction with Cheryl Harris and Ann Moritz, renowned consultants in the areas of gender, diversity and leadership, have created a collaboration to bring together a unique program designed especially for women leaders: “Women Leaders and Race: Building Alliances,” to be held at Simmons School of Management June 16-17, …
March 3, 2007 to March 24, 2007
Dates: March 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 11:30am - 2:00pm
Place: Simmons SOM, 451 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA
The Entrepreneurship Initiative of the Simmons School of Management will host a four part event series entitled “Leading Women Entrepreneurs” on the first four Saturdays in March. This unique forum will showcase four prominent business executives on the topic of …
March 7, 2007 7:45 am to 9:00 am
The Social Innovation Forum will be hosting a topic-based breakfast at Bain Capital, to discuss the broad issue of girls’ achievement. Fiona Wilson, Instructor, Simmons College School of Management will be speaking on the challenges of making a change in this arena.
March 13, 2007 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Save the date for the SOM Alumnae Association’s Spring Speaker Series event, featuring Ellen Zane, CEO of Tufts-New England Medical Center (Tufts-NEMC). The event will be based upon a newly written case by SOM Associate Professor Cynthia Ingols and Lisa Brem ‘97, which documents the remarkable turn-around of Tufts-NEMC under Zane’s leadership.
November 5, 2007 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: 409 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Speaker: Louise Marie Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona
Topic: “The Myth of Meritocracy: Unconscious Bias, Performance-Based Pay, and Gender Inequality”
While conscious action may produce some inequality, most discrimination occurs through cognitive processes that are automatic and unconscious. Using data on 76 Wall Street professionals, Louise Marie …
December 11, 2007 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Deficiency models suggest that women are reticent about negotiating for higher compensation because they lack confidence or training. Research by Hannah Riley Bowles and colleagues suggests otherwise. They found that women’s reticence to negotiate for higher pay to be based not on so called ‘deficiencies’ but rather on an accurate assessment of the social costs that accrue to women who “ask”.
January 17, 2008 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
The E. McCandless Professor of Entrepreneurship Teresa Nelson will be moderating the Boston Women in Finance panel discussion entitled “Funding Sources and Funding Process for Various Stage Entrepreneurial Ventures.”
January 28, 2008 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Place: 451 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA
Speaker: Radha Basu, Simmons School of Management Entrepreneur and Executive-in-Residence for 2008
Radha Basu, Former Hewlett-Packard Global Executive and Ongoing Entrepreneur, Joint SOM Entrepreneur and Executive-in-Residence for 2008
Join us for an evening with Radha Basu who will be joining the School of Management as Entrepreneur and Executive-in-Residence in 2008 to share …
