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Contact: Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business Hosts "Women and the MBA" Conference Workshop Explores School-Work-Life Balance for Women Considering an MBA
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and the Tepper Women in Business student group are hosting their first workshop for women interested in pursuing an MBA degree. "Women and the MBA: A Workshop Hosted by the Tepper School of Business" is geared to women planning to apply for admission during the fall 2007 school year or who are gathering information for application at a later time. Sessions will be held Thursday and Friday, Oct. 5-6 at the Posner Center on campus.
The workshop provides women with the opportunity to meet with the Tepper School's admissions group, learn what an MBA education includes and explore issues of how to balance school, work and life. Participants can attend classes and meet with current students, faculty, alumnae and prospective students.
The sessions begin Thursday, when women are invited to schedule interviews with admissions staff and visit classes. On Friday, the workshop will include an alumnae panel, "The MBA Value Proposition;" a student panel, "Finding Balance;" and a keynote talk during lunch. The keynote, "Bargaining for Work Flexibility and a Customized Career," will be delivered by Denise Rousseau, the H. John Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy and recent winner of the Academy of Management's 2006 George R. Terry Book Award. Rousseau, who received the award for her book "I-deal: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves," also earned a Terry award in 1996. She is the only two-time winner of the award.
The Tepper School is one of 27 U.S. schools to maintain membership in the Forte Foundation, which aims to increase the number of women in business by encouraging their admission into graduate business programs. The Women and the MBA workshop is co-sponsored by Alcoa, PPG and Union Pacific.
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About the Tepper School of Business: Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical decision-making. The school's notable contributions to the intellectual community include six Nobel laureates and a consistent presence in the top tier of business school rankings. The Wall Street Journal recently ranked the Tepper School as the third-best business school in the United States.
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