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Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal, the flagship publication of Dow Jones & Company, is the world's leading business publication. The Journal reaches the nation's top business and political leaders, as well as investors across the country. Holding 33 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, the Journal seeks to help its readers succeed by providing essential and relevant information, presented fairly and accurately, from a dependable and trusted source. The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com is the flagship product of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, which comprises unique, award-winning Web sites that provide vital business news and information, opinion and commentary, career guidance, and much more. It is the largest paid subscription news site on the Web, with than 1 million subscribers world-wide. Founded in 1995, it has been the winner of dozens of online awards, and is considered a must-read for top business executives, opinion leaders and other professionals.


CFA Institute is a global, not-for-profit organization comprised of the world’s largest association of investment professionals, and is dedicated to developing and promoting the highest educational, ethical, and professional standards in the investment industry. CFA Institute offers a range of educational and career resources, including the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) designations, and is a leading voice on global issues of fairness, market efficiency, and investor protection.

UNIVERSUM is The Global Employer Branding Leader. As thought leaders, we drive the industry forward having focused exclusively on Employer Branding (EB) for 20 years. We are a trusted partner to Schools and Universities, and over 500 clients worldwide including many Fortune 100 companies. We use our research to understand student attitudes and trends, and help leading employers attract and retain current and future ideal employees. Clients utilize our experience, knowledge and services from the research, strategic consulting and media solutions.

QS TOPMBA
QS is the leading international network for top careers and education. We link graduate, MBA and executive communities around the world with recruiters and education providers through websites, publications, selection services and events, both physical and virtual. We are currently travelling to over 72 different cities on the QS World MBA Tour in 2010. As World leaders in the educational industry candidates can meet with most prestigious business schools in the world under one roof, such as London Business School, Columbia, Duke and win over $1.6M of exclusive scholarships, find out about financing MBAs, and speak to alumni and admissions officers. As leaders in our field we are expanding year upon year and are currently operating globally from offices in: London, Paris, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and Washington DC. The brands of the company are: QS TopGraduate, QS TopUniversities, QS TopMBA, QS TopExecEd and QS GlobalWorkplace. Together they support individuals throughout their career paths.

Women For Hire
Women For Hire offers a comprehensive array of recruitment services for women, including signature career expos, inspiring speeches and seminars, a popular career-focused magazine, customized marketing programs, and an online job board that helps leading employers connect with top-notch professional women in all fields.

PINK
pinkmagazine.com delivers proven strategies to women for greater professional and personal achievement. Informative and inspiring articles bring to life real stories of how key women across the nation encounter and work through business and personal challenges. For a list of resources from PINK magazine on our site, check out the PINK magazine lists.

The Robert Toigo Foundation
The Robert Toigo Foundation is a national organization committed to preparing exceptional minority pre-MBA and MBA students to enter the field of finance and leverage their academic and professional roles into future positions of leadership in the global economy. To ensure that developing finance professionals receive access to the resources that will help them succeed, the Foundation created ToigoTalks™, an undergraduate initiative that cultivates talent at an early stage by providing active outreach, knowledge-building support, and guidance through a series of on-campus presentations, educational networking events, sponsor-hosted webinars, and a resource-rich website (http://www.ready-for-finance.com)./

Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT)
MLT is the premier career development institution that equips African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans with the key ingredients—skills, coaching and door-opening relationships—that unlock their potential. We deliver our content via key programs to help minorities at each stage of their career to put them on the fast track to success—at the College, MBA and Executive level. For more information, go to: http://www.ml4t.org/

The MBA Tour
The MBA Tour is an international business education recruitment platform with emphasis on personal interaction between prospective MBA students, business school admission representatives, alumni and other like-minded education enthusiasts. To promote our business philosophy, the MBA Tour offers high quality education fairs that include individual school presentations and interactive panel discussions with leading industry experts as well as personalized round table events. The MBA Tour was established in 1993 and has built its reputation on representing top business schools from Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America. For more information visit http://www.thembatour.com/ 

THE DOWNTOWN WOMEN’S CLUB
The Downtown Women’s Club is a social network and career website for professional women. We provide local in-person events (in selected markets), online networking, and a host of online marketing services and business opportunities that help our members make connections, build relationships, and have fun with other sophisticated and savvy businesswomen. Visit our website and start connecting today. Forget the old boys’ club; join the Downtown Women’s Club.

The Access MBA Tour
Taking place in more than 25 countries around the world every year, the Access MBA Tour gives qualified MBA candidates restigious international business schools. The One-to-One events, along with the online resource http://www.accessmba.com/, enable business professionals to determine which MBA is right for their careers.

Harvard University Women in Business
HUWIB is currently the largest undergraduate business organization on campus at Harvard, reaching over 300 members. The organization seeks to empower a dynamic group of enterprising young women by uniting them through business education and experience. Through panels, conferences, outreach initiatives, skill-building workshops, leadership projects, and mentorship programs, HUWIB seeks to expose undergraduate women to a variety of business careers. 

Women MBAs 2010 Virtual Career Fair
Fall Career Fair: September 29, 2010
Join us for the Women MBAs 2010 Virtual Career Fair. Top MBA women from around the country will be there. Other national recruiters will be there. Your team will be able to chat with each candidate from their desktop or laptop. It will be just like a traditional career fair, but with lower costs, and with an eye toward protecting the environment. Learn more at www.womenmbavirtualcareerfair.com 

The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
Since its inception in 1966, The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management has secured $225 million to advance their mission of promoting diversity and inclusion in American business. The Consortium annually awards over 300 full-tuition scholarships for students to attend one of its 17 top-tier member schools. The Consortium’s vast network includes these universities, more than 500 current students, nearly 6,000 alumni and 75 corporate partners consisting of Fortune 100 and 500 companies. For more information visit www.cgsm.org 

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