Archive for the ‘Women in Business’ Category

Summer 2011
IE BUSINESS SCHOOL joins Forté Foundation a Consortium of Leading Corporations and Top Business Schools that seeks to increase women’s Access to Business Education and Careers.

The Forté Foundation is the leading organization that provides a national infrastructure for college students, business school women, and working professionals to access the “real world” information, scholarship opportunities and essential networking connections they need to succeed in business careers.

Called to action by a landmark research study, Women and the MBA: Gateway to Opportunity, looking at why women are under-represented in leading business schools compared with medical or law schools, the Forté Foundation was founded in 2001 to address this inequity and its impact on the business landscape.

Forté Foundation enables its corporate and business school sponsors to effectively reach, recruit and retain top female talent. Forté’s agenda to reach college-aged women, MBA candidates, and MBA alumnae will build on its founding commitment to increase the number of women in the early business pipeline, and will create partnerships with academic and advocacy groups, as well as its own sponsors, to attract and retain women in business careers

ABOUT FORTÉ FOUNDATION
Forté Foundation is a consortium of leading multinational corporations, top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Forté has become a powerful change agent directing women towards leadership roles in business and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain top female talent. It is the leading organization that provides a national infrastructure for women at all stages of the career continuum to access the information, scholarship support and networking connections they need to succeed in business careers.
To learn more about Forté Foundation visit www.fortefoundation.org

FORTE SPONSORS

Forté Sponsor Companies: AIG, Bain, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, BlackRock, The Capital Group Companies, Capital One, Chevron, Citi, Citizens Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ernst & Young, ExxonMobil, Fidelity Investments, Goldman, Sachs & Co., The Hartford, IBM, Intel, Liberty Mutual, New York Life, Pfizer, PIMCO, The PNC Financial Services Group, UBS

Due to the great past success of the IE DAY we are proud to celebrate “IE Women’s Day” on June 1st. The event, themed “Women without fear of power,”  will take place in the Aula Magna located at 13, 15 Maria de Molina Str. IE´s Headquarters in Madrid.

The event will begin at 19:30 and feature three special guests:

• Mónica Deza, vice president of Innovation of the McCann World Group in Spain and Counselor of APD
• Mª Paz Sánchez, Director of General Electric Capital in Spain
• Elisa Martínez de Miguel, Executive Partner of Newmann International

These women have enjoyed success in their careers, and they will share with us their personal experiences, opinions about the current position of women in the world and their professional development.

This event is open to all candidates — both women and men — and will showcase all of IE’s educational programs. Guests will have the opportunity to receive first-hand information regarding all the degrees and executive education programs IE offers.

The event will be conducted in Spanish. If you are interested in attending, please register here.

The event follows another IE DAY that took place in May focused on Energy and Climate Change that featured Jesús Abadía, an IE Executive MBA and president of Environment and Sustainable Development at ENDESA.

IE Business School Professor Pino Bethencourt says women need to take risks to be successful in business. During an interview with London-based web publication BusinessBecause.com, the expert on organizational behavior said women can’t expect to change the corporate world as outsiders. Instead, they need to work their way into top leadership positions where they can really have an impact.

In the meantime, women should not neccessarily expect to be accomodated in the workplace. That can mean challenges when it comes to balancing family life.  “I think women need to be sure that they want to be ambitious and successful, and then they will find the tactical ways to organize famlies,” she said.

For more on the interview, watch the video above or read the full article. The video was filmed at the offices of BusinessBecause in London.