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NOTRE DAME, IE BUSINESS SCHOOL, AND MICHIGAN STATEJOIN FORTÉ FOUNDATION
BOOSTING WOMEN INTO BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ROLES
Joins Consortium of Leading Corporations and TopBusiness Schools
Increasing Women’s Access to Business Education andCareers
(Austin,TX, July 11, 2011) – Notre Dame, IE Business School, and Michigan State havejoined Forté Foundation, a consortium of leading multinational corporations,top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate ManagementAdmission Council® (GMAC®).
“Forté Foundation welcomesthese leading MBA programs, who, through a competitive process, havedemonstrated their proven leadership in educating women in business,” saidElissa Sangster, Executive Director of Forté Foundation. “We’re looking forwardto a fruitful partnership as we make an even greater impact over the nextdecade by expanding our outreach and aligning with their global and diversenetworks and alumnae connections.”
The Forté Foundation is theleading organization that provides a national infrastructure for collegestudents, business school women, and working professionals to access the “realworld” information, scholarship opportunities and essential networkingconnections they need to succeed in business careers.
Called to action by a landmarkresearch study, Women and the MBA: Gateway to Opportunity, looking atwhy women are under-represented in leading business schools compared withmedical or law schools, the Forté Foundation was founded in 2001 to addressthis inequity and its impact on the business landscape.
Forté Foundation enables itscorporate and business school sponsors to effectively reach, recruit and retaintop 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 ofwomen in the early business pipeline, and will create partnerships withacademic and advocacy groups, as well as its own sponsors, to attract andretain women in business careers.
When Forté Foundation wasfounded in 2001 it set out to direct women through educational gateways andinto business leadership positions. 10 years later, Forté has built an onlinecommunity of over 60,000 women, reached thousands of MBA prospects through itsForté Forums educating women on the value of an MBA, supported over 750 MBAcandidates with nearly $30 million in scholarships through the Forté Fellowsprogram, driven the corporate recruiting dialogue through Corporate BestPractices Summit and Network of Women’s Networks events, and provided hundredsof MBA women at Forté sponsor schools with professional development workshopsthrough its annual MBA Women’s Conference and Company Expo.
ABOUT FORTÉ FOUNDATION
Forté Foundation is a consortiumof leading multinational corporations, top business schools in the U.S. andabroad, and the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®). Forté hasbecome a powerful change agent directing women towards leadership roles inbusiness and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain topfemale talent. It is the leading organization that provides a nationalinfrastructure for women at all stages of the career continuum to access theinformation, scholarship support and networking connections they need tosucceed in business careers.
To learn more about FortéFoundation 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, CitizensFinancial 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 PNCFinancial Services Group, UBS
Forté Sponsor Business Schools: BabsonGraduate School of Business, Carlson School of Management at the University ofMinnesota, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cox School of Business atSouthern Methodist University, Darden Graduate School of BusinessAdministration at Virginia, Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State, TheFuqua School of Business at Duke, Georgetown University’s McDonough School ofBusiness, Goizueta Business School at Emory, Harvard Business School,HEC-Paris, IE Business School, INSEAD, The Johnson School of Management atCornell, Kelley School of Business at Indiana, The Kellogg School of Managementat Northwestern, London Business School, McCombs School of Business at Texas,Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame, Mills College Lorrey I. LokeyGraduate School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Olin BusinessSchool at Washington University in St. Louis, Queen’s School of Business, RossSchool of Business at Michigan, SDA Bocconi School of Management, SimmonsSchool of Management, Stern School of Business at NYU, Tepper School ofBusiness at Carnegie Mellon, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, UC BerkeleyHaas School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, College of Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School,University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business, USC Marshall Schoolof Business, Wake Forest (Babcock), The Wharton School at the University ofPennsylvania, Yale School of Management
Non-Profits:The GraduateManagement Admission Council® (GMAC®)
BOOSTING WOMEN INTO BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ROLES
Joins Consortium of Leading Corporations and TopBusiness Schools
Increasing Women’s Access to Business Education andCareers
(Austin,TX, July 11, 2011) – Notre Dame, IE Business School, and Michigan State havejoined Forté Foundation, a consortium of leading multinational corporations,top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate ManagementAdmission Council® (GMAC®).
“Forté Foundation welcomesthese leading MBA programs, who, through a competitive process, havedemonstrated their proven leadership in educating women in business,” saidElissa Sangster, Executive Director of Forté Foundation. “We’re looking forwardto a fruitful partnership as we make an even greater impact over the nextdecade by expanding our outreach and aligning with their global and diversenetworks and alumnae connections.”
The Forté Foundation is theleading organization that provides a national infrastructure for collegestudents, business school women, and working professionals to access the “realworld” information, scholarship opportunities and essential networkingconnections they need to succeed in business careers.
Called to action by a landmarkresearch study, Women and the MBA: Gateway to Opportunity, looking atwhy women are under-represented in leading business schools compared withmedical or law schools, the Forté Foundation was founded in 2001 to addressthis inequity and its impact on the business landscape.
Forté Foundation enables itscorporate and business school sponsors to effectively reach, recruit and retaintop 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 ofwomen in the early business pipeline, and will create partnerships withacademic and advocacy groups, as well as its own sponsors, to attract andretain women in business careers.
When Forté Foundation wasfounded in 2001 it set out to direct women through educational gateways andinto business leadership positions. 10 years later, Forté has built an onlinecommunity of over 60,000 women, reached thousands of MBA prospects through itsForté Forums educating women on the value of an MBA, supported over 750 MBAcandidates with nearly $30 million in scholarships through the Forté Fellowsprogram, driven the corporate recruiting dialogue through Corporate BestPractices Summit and Network of Women’s Networks events, and provided hundredsof MBA women at Forté sponsor schools with professional development workshopsthrough its annual MBA Women’s Conference and Company Expo.
ABOUT FORTÉ FOUNDATION
Forté Foundation is a consortiumof leading multinational corporations, top business schools in the U.S. andabroad, and the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®). Forté hasbecome a powerful change agent directing women towards leadership roles inbusiness and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain topfemale talent. It is the leading organization that provides a nationalinfrastructure for women at all stages of the career continuum to access theinformation, scholarship support and networking connections they need tosucceed in business careers.
To learn more about FortéFoundation 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, CitizensFinancial 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 PNCFinancial Services Group, UBS
Forté Sponsor Business Schools: BabsonGraduate School of Business, Carlson School of Management at the University ofMinnesota, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cox School of Business atSouthern Methodist University, Darden Graduate School of BusinessAdministration at Virginia, Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State, TheFuqua School of Business at Duke, Georgetown University’s McDonough School ofBusiness, Goizueta Business School at Emory, Harvard Business School,HEC-Paris, IE Business School, INSEAD, The Johnson School of Management atCornell, Kelley School of Business at Indiana, The Kellogg School of Managementat Northwestern, London Business School, McCombs School of Business at Texas,Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame, Mills College Lorrey I. LokeyGraduate School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Olin BusinessSchool at Washington University in St. Louis, Queen’s School of Business, RossSchool of Business at Michigan, SDA Bocconi School of Management, SimmonsSchool of Management, Stern School of Business at NYU, Tepper School ofBusiness at Carnegie Mellon, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, UC BerkeleyHaas School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, College of Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School,University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business, USC Marshall Schoolof Business, Wake Forest (Babcock), The Wharton School at the University ofPennsylvania, Yale School of Management
Non-Profits:The GraduateManagement Admission Council® (GMAC®)
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Media Contact:
Jessica Cowan
jessica@fortefoundation.org
Melissa Banas
melissa.banas@fleishman.com
Forté Foundation Announces Winner of the Second Annual Edie Hunt InspirationAward
-- Award Recognizes MBA Women for Contributions to Advancement of Women inBusiness --
Austin, TX (June 08, 2010) – The Forté Foundation, a consortium of majorcorporations, business
schools and non-profitorganizations that directs talented women towards leadership roles in
business, today announcedthe winner of the second annual Edie Hunt Inspiration Award.
This year’s award winner is Rebekah Ahn, a recent graduate from the MBAprogram at the Stern
School ofBusiness at New York University and native of Greensboro, NC.
The Edie Hunt InspirationAward, designed to recognize the outstanding achievements of women
MBA students at FortéFoundation sponsor schools, is awarded based on contributions the
winner has made to herschool and community to advance women into business leadership
positions. The award wascreated in 2009 to honor the Chair Emeritus of Forté's Board of
Directors, Edie Hunt. Edieis currently the Head of Global Diversity and Managing Director at
Goldman, Sachs & Co.and is a Chicago Booth MBA 1974 graduate.
The annual award recipientreceives complementary attendance for the Forté Foundation’s
annual MBA Women’sConference, which takes place in Chicago this year, and networking
opportunities with Fortéboard members and corporate member executives at the event. In
addition, the awardrecipient receives a $500 cash award and a $100 retail award,
“Edie Hunt has long been acrusader for diversity at the top in business and has a passion for
helping to advance morewomen into leadership roles. She was one of the founders of the Forté
Foundation and wascritical to making it a success through her connections at myriad
companies,” said ElissaEllis-Sangster, executive director of the Forté Foundation.
RebekahAhn graduated in May 2010 from the Stern School of Business at NYUwith her Master
of BusinessAdministration, with specializations in Marketing, Entrepreneurship &Innovation, and
Corporate Finance. Whileat Stern, she was Co-President of Stern Women in Business (SWIB),
an Alumni Scholar, aGraduate Ambassador in the Office of Admissions and an active member of
the Legacy Committee, theGraduate Marketing Association, the Media Entertainment & Sports
Association, and theTechnology & New Media Group. She is a recipient of the Stern School
Service Award for herservice to the School, University and community. Rebekah is also a Forté
Foundation Fellow andregular contributor to the Forté MBA Value Proposition blog
(http://forum.fortefoundation.org), where her posts help prospective MBA women navigate the
admissions process.
“Rebekah Ahn embodies thespirit of someone who was born to make a difference,” said Rabia
Ahmed, Associate Directorof MBA Admissions, at the Stern School of Business. “Through her
leadership as co-presidentof Stern Women In Business (SWIB), she motivated her fellow
classmates to get involvedon campus and give back to the NYC community. During her time at
Stern, she served as amentor to prospective students, helping foster a culture of collaboration
and inclusion. Under herleadership, SWIB received one of the highest honors at the university -
the President's ServiceAward. Rebekah's passion, motivation and natural leadership style will
continue to inspire othersnot only now, but also for years to come.”
All full-time students atForté Foundation sponsor schools, a prestigious group of 37 leading
business schools, areeligible to be nominated for the Edie Hunt Inspiration Award either by
themselves, a schoolofficial or a classmate. Nominees must exhibit a track record of working to
increase and/or encouragewomen's interests in business school or business careers. The
selection criteriaincludes: increasing women's interest in attending business school;
encouraging women topursue business careers; leadership of a student organization or initiative
related to women; activeinvolvement in school activities recruiting women; and mentoring or
counseling young womenabout business careers.
Rebekah will be publiclyrecognized during the Dialogue with Leadership session at the Annual
Forté Foundation MBA Women’sConference, June 19, 2010, to be held at McCormick Place,
Chicago, IL. For moreinformation about the MBA Women’s Conference, visit
http://www.fortefoundation.org/mbaconf.
About Forté Foundation
Forté Foundation is aconsortium of leading multinational corporations, top business schools in
the U.S. and abroad, andthe Graduate Management Admission Council. Forté is the leading
organization that providesa national infrastructure for women at all stages of the career
continuum to access theinformation, scholarship support and networking connections they need
to succeed in businesscareers. Additional information about the Forté Foundation is available
online atwww.fortefoundation.org.
Forté Corporate andNon-Profit Sponsors: American Express, Avon, Barclays Capital, BlackRock
Investments, Bloomberg,The Capital Group Companies, Chevron, Citi, Citizens Financial Group,
Credit Suisse, Deloitte,Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ernst & Young, Fidelity
Investments, Goldman,Sachs & Co., The Hartford, IBM, Intel, John Deere, MetLife, Morgan
Stanley, New York Life,Pfizer, UBS, Graduate Management Admission Council
Forté Graduate BusinessSchool Sponsors: Babson Graduate School of Business, Carlson
School of Management atthe University of Minnesota, University of Chicago Booth School of
Business, ColumbiaBusiness School, Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University,
Darden Graduate School ofBusiness Administration at Virginia, The Fuqua School of Business at
Duke, GeorgetownUniversity’s McDonough School of Business, Goizueta Business School at
Emory, Harvard BusinessSchool, HEC-Paris, INSEAD, The Johnson School of Management at
Cornell, Kelley School ofBusiness at Indiana, The Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern, LondonBusiness School, McCombs School of Business at Texas, Mills College,
Lorry I. Lokey GraduateSchool of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Olin Business
School at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, Queen’s School of Business, Ross School of
Business at Michigan, SDABocconi School of Management, Simmons School of Management,
Stern School of Businessat NYU, Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, Tuck School of
Business at Dartmouth, UCBerkeley Haas School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of
Management, College ofBusiness, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UNC Kenan-
Flagler Business School,University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business, USC
Marshall School ofBusiness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business,
Wake Forest UniversitySchools of Business, The Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania, Yale Schoolof Management
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Media Contact:
Jessica Cowan
jessica@fortefoundation.org
Melissa Banas
melissa.banas@fleishman.com
Forté Foundation Announces Winner of the Second Annual Edie Hunt InspirationAward
-- Award Recognizes MBA Women for Contributions to Advancement of Women inBusiness --
Austin, TX (June 08, 2010) – The Forté Foundation, a consortium of majorcorporations, business
schools and non-profitorganizations that directs talented women towards leadership roles in
business, today announcedthe winner of the second annual Edie Hunt Inspiration Award.
This year’s award winner is Rebekah Ahn, a recent graduate from the MBAprogram at the Stern
School ofBusiness at New York University and native of Greensboro, NC.
The Edie Hunt InspirationAward, designed to recognize the outstanding achievements of women
MBA students at FortéFoundation sponsor schools, is awarded based on contributions the
winner has made to herschool and community to advance women into business leadership
positions. The award wascreated in 2009 to honor the Chair Emeritus of Forté's Board of
Directors, Edie Hunt. Edieis currently the Head of Global Diversity and Managing Director at
Goldman, Sachs & Co.and is a Chicago Booth MBA 1974 graduate.
The annual award recipientreceives complementary attendance for the Forté Foundation’s
annual MBA Women’sConference, which takes place in Chicago this year, and networking
opportunities with Fortéboard members and corporate member executives at the event. In
addition, the awardrecipient receives a $500 cash award and a $100 retail award,
“Edie Hunt has long been acrusader for diversity at the top in business and has a passion for
helping to advance morewomen into leadership roles. She was one of the founders of the Forté
Foundation and wascritical to making it a success through her connections at myriad
companies,” said ElissaEllis-Sangster, executive director of the Forté Foundation.
RebekahAhn graduated in May 2010 from the Stern School of Business at NYUwith her Master
of BusinessAdministration, with specializations in Marketing, Entrepreneurship &Innovation, and
Corporate Finance. Whileat Stern, she was Co-President of Stern Women in Business (SWIB),
an Alumni Scholar, aGraduate Ambassador in the Office of Admissions and an active member of
the Legacy Committee, theGraduate Marketing Association, the Media Entertainment & Sports
Association, and theTechnology & New Media Group. She is a recipient of the Stern School
Service Award for herservice to the School, University and community. Rebekah is also a Forté
Foundation Fellow andregular contributor to the Forté MBA Value Proposition blog
(http://forum.fortefoundation.org), where her posts help prospective MBA women navigate the
admissions process.
“Rebekah Ahn embodies thespirit of someone who was born to make a difference,” said Rabia
Ahmed, Associate Directorof MBA Admissions, at the Stern School of Business. “Through her
leadership as co-presidentof Stern Women In Business (SWIB), she motivated her fellow
classmates to get involvedon campus and give back to the NYC community. During her time at
Stern, she served as amentor to prospective students, helping foster a culture of collaboration
and inclusion. Under herleadership, SWIB received one of the highest honors at the university -
the President's ServiceAward. Rebekah's passion, motivation and natural leadership style will
continue to inspire othersnot only now, but also for years to come.”
All full-time students atForté Foundation sponsor schools, a prestigious group of 37 leading
business schools, areeligible to be nominated for the Edie Hunt Inspiration Award either by
themselves, a schoolofficial or a classmate. Nominees must exhibit a track record of working to
increase and/or encouragewomen's interests in business school or business careers. The
selection criteriaincludes: increasing women's interest in attending business school;
encouraging women topursue business careers; leadership of a student organization or initiative
related to women; activeinvolvement in school activities recruiting women; and mentoring or
counseling young womenabout business careers.
Rebekah will be publiclyrecognized during the Dialogue with Leadership session at the Annual
Forté Foundation MBA Women’sConference, June 19, 2010, to be held at McCormick Place,
Chicago, IL. For moreinformation about the MBA Women’s Conference, visit
http://www.fortefoundation.org/mbaconf.
About Forté Foundation
Forté Foundation is aconsortium of leading multinational corporations, top business schools in
the U.S. and abroad, andthe Graduate Management Admission Council. Forté is the leading
organization that providesa national infrastructure for women at all stages of the career
continuum to access theinformation, scholarship support and networking connections they need
to succeed in businesscareers. Additional information about the Forté Foundation is available
online atwww.fortefoundation.org.
Forté Corporate andNon-Profit Sponsors: American Express, Avon, Barclays Capital, BlackRock
Investments, Bloomberg,The Capital Group Companies, Chevron, Citi, Citizens Financial Group,
Credit Suisse, Deloitte,Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ernst & Young, Fidelity
Investments, Goldman,Sachs & Co., The Hartford, IBM, Intel, John Deere, MetLife, Morgan
Stanley, New York Life,Pfizer, UBS, Graduate Management Admission Council
Forté Graduate BusinessSchool Sponsors: Babson Graduate School of Business, Carlson
School of Management atthe University of Minnesota, University of Chicago Booth School of
Business, ColumbiaBusiness School, Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University,
Darden Graduate School ofBusiness Administration at Virginia, The Fuqua School of Business at
Duke, GeorgetownUniversity’s McDonough School of Business, Goizueta Business School at
Emory, Harvard BusinessSchool, HEC-Paris, INSEAD, The Johnson School of Management at
Cornell, Kelley School ofBusiness at Indiana, The Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern, LondonBusiness School, McCombs School of Business at Texas, Mills College,
Lorry I. Lokey GraduateSchool of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Olin Business
School at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, Queen’s School of Business, Ross School of
Business at Michigan, SDABocconi School of Management, Simmons School of Management,
Stern School of Businessat NYU, Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, Tuck School of
Business at Dartmouth, UCBerkeley Haas School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of
Management, College ofBusiness, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UNC Kenan-
Flagler Business School,University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business, USC
Marshall School ofBusiness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business,
Wake Forest UniversitySchools of Business, The Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania, Yale Schoolof Management
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