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MBA Office Updates
Note from Mary D.
Nominations for the SOMAA Award for Principled Leadership are due TODAY!
Purpose of the Award
The purpose of the SOMAA award for principled leadership is to support the mission of the School of Management and recognize two students who through their school and work activities demonstrate the core components of principled leadership
Criteria for Award
Nominations should include details about how the nominee has demonstrated principled leadership through involvement or success at the SOM, professional work, and/or volunteer commitments. The following areas are just some of the ways in which nominees may have shown principled leadership:
- Courage in making difficult decisions and choosing an ethical course of action for her organization or within the SOM
- Leadership in integrating social responsibility and business strategy and practice
- Leadership in social and environmental concerns at the SOM or outside
- Commitment to “green” initiatives, such as energy and water conservation, use of recycled materials
- Fostering equitable and inclusive workplaces that address gender and diversity dynamics
Nomination Process
Students should submit an email or paper nomination to Paula Bent, Manager, SOM Academic Programs or paula.bent@simmons.edu by July 10. Nominations should address the criteria, and be as specific as possible to support the nomination. Students should be willing to sign their names as the nominator of a fellow student for this award and be willing to have some of the nomination statement included in the recipient award statement at the Dean’s Reception. Students will not be notified that they have been nominated for this award. Self nominations will be accepted. Faculty and staff are also encouraged to nominate students for this award.
Updates for Week of 7/14–7/20
MANDATORY GRADUATION MEETING RESCHEDULED
NEW DATE: Thursday, July 31st at 6pm in the Gold Room
Immediately following the New Alumnae Reception
Alumnae Panel Discussion: New Job Success
Wednesday, July 15, 409 Comm. Ave, Green Room – 4:00 – 6:00pm
RSVP Required – LIMITED SEATING
Email:georgette.jover@simmons.edu
Annoucements
Student Services Survey
Our goal is to provide you with excellent service and your feedback is crucial to our success. Please take a moment to rate the various SOM departments based upon your experience with that office. This survey will be available until July 15th and take approximately ten minutes to complete. Thank you in advance for your participation.
Please click on the link below to start the survey:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB227YSQ486NU
Fall T-Pass Orders
Semester T-pass orders must be received by the Office of Student Leadership and Activities on Wednesday, August 6. Download a copy of the order form by clicking here.
Please send the order forms and a check or money order to: The Office of Student Leadership and Activities W-002 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115.
Questions about the program? E-mail leadership@simmons.edu
Madagascar Virtual Tour
Take a minute to watch this beautiful video, produced by Conservation International about your classmate Valisoa's home country. Click on the link here and then click on "Take A Virtual Tour" to learn more about the people and natural wonders of Madagascar. Wonderful soundtrack of Malagasy music too.
http://web.conservation.org/xp/madagascar/
Housing Needed
Next semester's incoming international students need help finding housing! If you know anyone looking for a roommate, subletting an apartment or have an apartment available, please email Diane Reimer at diane.riemer@simmons.edu
Tutor Needed
Prospective MBA student looking for a GMAT tutor. Days/times/logistics to be determined by prospect and tutor individually. Please contact Christine Carr in the MBA Admission office if you are interested, christine.carr2@simmons.edu or 617-521-3897.
Registration
Updates
Fall Registration
Registration for the Fall semester has closed. If you have not registered please email Paula at paula.bent@simmons.edu and she can take care of it for you.
New Elective
GSM 503: Special Topics: Authentic Leadership
Professor Laura Morgan Roberts
2 credits
Dates:
Fri: October 24th, 6-9pm
Sat: October 25th, 9-4pm
Sun: October 26th, 9-4pm
Fri: November 21st, 6-9pm
Sat: November 22nd, 9-4pm
Sun: November 23rd, 9-4pm
This is a course on how to design and manage organizations in which people from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds thrive and perform at their best. It assumes that strategically engaging strengths is the key to personal fulfillment and organizational excellence. The challenge in managing from this perspective is how do you architect contexts (jobs, organizational cultures, structures, processes) that enable employees and groups from diverse backgrounds to contribute from a position of strength? The challenge at a more personal level is in finding and/or creating a context in which you can thrive and contribute your best. This course will focus primarily on your personal quest to thrive, by examining your own strengths (and limitations), cultural insights, and professional experiences that enhance your capacity to lead authentically. As a secondary focus, we will consider the role of the manager in designing and fostering contexts where others can authentically engage their strengths for maximal growth and contribution.
This course draws from a new and exciting paradigm called Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). Using the lens of POS, we will draw upon research and managerial practices that build human strengths and unlock the positive and generative dynamics of vibrant human communities. We will utilize case studies, assigned readings, class discussions, experiential exercises, and introspection to examine your own and others’ practices of leading authentically for organizational excellence and personal fulfillment. You will be expected to “show up” authentically within the class; your role will be to engage your own strengths to help create a collaborative, innovative learning environment that will support you and your classmates in your journeys of reflection, learning and growth.
If you would like to register for this class, please e-mail Paula Bent at paula.bent@simmons.edu.
Schedule Change
Please note the first class of GSM 420 A Financial Reporting & Analysis, will meet on September 15th, not 17th as printed in the original synopsis. For the most up to date information please visit:
http://my.simmons.edu/som/courses/schedules.shtml
Graduation
Updates
Graduation Meeting RESCHEDULED!
Please note the Mandatory Graduation Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, 7/15 at 12pm and 5pm have been rescheduled!!
NEW DATE:
Thursday, July 31st at 6pm
Immediately following the New Alumnae Reception in the Gold Room
Your cap & gowns will be distributed at this meeting and there is a lot of important information that you will need to know. If you can't make it you will be responsible for picking up your cap & gown before graduation from the MBA Office. A summary of the meeting will be posted to eLearning for those of you who can't make it. We do encourage you try to make it!!
In the meantime if you wish to pick up your cap & gown before that date please feel free to do so by stopping at the MBA Office.
Sorry for any inconvenience but this meeting conflicted with a CSO Event so now you are free to go to that if you wish.
Invitations
& Announcements
Invitations for Graduation, Dean's Reception, and personalized Graduation Announcements are ready for pick up in
the MBA Office. Guests do not need the invitations to get into the graduation
ceremony. If you wish to have more than 10, you can ask for them after all
students receive theirs. Students will receive one Dean's Reception
invitation for each guest.
Class Gift 2008
Our Leadership. Our Legacy. Living Sustainability.
As you know, the class gift kickoff party last Friday helped raise over $1250 worth of donations toward our contribution to sustainability and principled leadership initiatives in the MBA program.
As classes slowly loosen their hold on our sanity and schedules, we look to make a push in July to achieve our goal of 100% participation. We are confident in our ability to meet this ambitious goal as further evidence of our excellence and commitment to the ideals of sustainability and principled leadership.
To reach this goal, however, we need all of your support! Please check your company's contribution matching program. You can check the class gift website at http://livingsustainability.googlepages.com/home to see if your company matches.
We look forward to hearing from all of you, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions that you may have. Check the website periodically to see how we are progressing toward goal!
The Class Gift Co-Chairs,
Jen Albert, Martha Conover, Erin DeCurtis, Heather Lantz, Erin McFee
Class Gift Committee
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