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  Building Your Personal Brand – Part 1

  When it comes to your professional career, your reputation is key, especially if you are looking to take on a bigger role at your workplace, switch companies, or industries, or grow a business. In Part 1 of her series on personal branding, Forté Alumni Leadership Council member Asha Aravindakshan offers tips on how to maximize your brand to its fullest potential.

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  Don’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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  How a Student-Led Initiative Helped Diversify Darden’s Case-Based Curriculum

  Pam Fischer was in her first year at Darden when she and other women noticed how few of the cases they were studying featured women. With the help of other student leaders, Pam launched a case audit that inspired changes.

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  Feedback Gap Can Hold Women Back

  Early in their career, women can face a hidden stumbling block. Research shows women are not getting the same kind of feedback as their male colleagues. They aren’t hearing about what they need to do better, what they need to know more about, what skills they need to master. When women do get feedback, it’s […]

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  You’re (I’m) Not an “Admissions Mistake”

  35 years ago, Soojin Kwon was a freshman at Yale, worried that she was an “admissions mistake.” Today, she’s Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Student Experiences, University of Michigan (Ross School of Business) — and she has advice for other students feeling that same fear.

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  Expanding Our Allyship Programs to Be as Inclusive as Possible

  As part of Forté’s mission to advance women in business, we want to involve as many people as possible in the gender equity movement. In 2016, Forté launched its Men as Allies initiative to help men understand how they can support women in the workplace as well as on MBA campuses.

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