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Read MoreMatch Made in MissionFoundations Matter: How One Student Found Her Home in Real Estate Finance
Featuring Hines and Deja Alfaro, NYU Stern Before Deja Alfaro found herself working in fund management in London, she was a first-generation college student at NYU trying to figure out where she fit in finance. Like many business students going to school in New York, the path seemed to point in one direction. “Everyone just […]
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Read MoreArticlesYour First Promotion: What You Need to Know
When people talk about women’s advancement, the conversation usually jumps straight to the C‑suite. But the real story starts much earlier, at the very first step up. For more than seven years, we’ve had a name for the place where women’s careers most often stall: the Broken Rung. First introduced by McKinsey andLeanIn.org in 2019, […]
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Read MoreCareer StageNew Forté Program Is Like Oxygen for Women’s Rise to the Top
At 26,000 feet on Mount Everest, climbers reach the “Death Zone” – a point at which oxygen levels become so low that a climber’s every breath is painful, making the rest of an already difficult journey even harder. Most climbers at this point strap on oxygen masks and tanks to trudge to the top. While […]
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Read MoreCareer StageHow Expressing Gratitude Strengthens Relationships and Opens Doors
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Forté asked the post-MBA women on our new Alumni Leadership Council the following question: How has gratitude been important in your career?
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Read MoreTopicsAmy Swartwood Applies Hard and Soft Skills Equally to Succeed at Mutual of Omaha
Amy Swartwood was initially drawn to a career in finance because it offered stability, and after years of risk management and finance roles at banking institutions, she has found a sweet spot as Vice President of Finance at Mutual of Omaha. Likening her role to an “air traffic controller,” Amy says no two days are ever alike.
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Despite pandemic challenges, women’s MBA enrollment rose to a historic record in 2021 and three schools reached gender equity, Forté Foundation finds
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than half of business schools now report 40% or more women enrolled [SUPPORTING RESEARCH] (Austin, TX, November 12, 2021) – Women’s enrollment in full-time MBA programs, which stalled in 2020 at the start of the pandemic, leaped to all-time high of 41% in 2021, and for the first time ever […]
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Read MoreCareer StageAt Her First Forté Event, Lisette Tapia Learned From Women Leaders
Lisette Tapia, a junior at the State University of New York at New Paltz, shares what it was like attending a Forté event for the first time — and her takeaways from the 2021 Candid Conversations Leadership Conference.
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Read MoreTopicsDon’t Get Stuck: How Being Too Helpful Can Cost You a Promotion
As workers and employers face decisions about when and if to go back to in-person work, women need to be on guard for an invisible challenge that may await. Research shows that women tend to take on more of what’s termed non-promotable work. Also called glue work, this includes many tasks that make things run […]
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