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Fall 2022 Partner Spotlights


Host Partner

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific. With operations in over 70 counties, we encourage our people to think for themselves and reward integrity. Whether your interests lie in investment banking, trading, technology, human resources, risk management or another business area, a career at Deutsche Bank gives you everything you need to succeed in an international environment. That includes structured, ongoing training to support your continuous development and the chance to learn from colleagues at all levels of the Bank. If you’re talented, collaborative and curious about building an exciting career in finance, you’re exactly the type of person who might succeed in our organization.

Women at Deutsche Bank

At Deutsche Bank, our culture is friendly and supportive. When you join us, you’ll feel like a key part of a diverse, inclusive team where you can use your individuality and integrity to drive forward market-leading solutions. We’ve won awards for both our family-friendly policies and for improving gender diversity in executive ranks. By 2018, our aim is for women to occupy at least 25 percent of the senior management positions. This includes leadership development workshops for women across the U.S. and our Women on Wall Street (WOWS) network that sponsors over 20 events each year. We ensure women can make their mark on our business that never stands still.


Lead Partner

PIMCO

PIMCO is a global investment management firm with a singular focus on preserving and enhancing investors’ assets.

We manage investments for institutions, financial advisors and individuals. The institutions we serve include corporations, central banks, universities, endowments and foundations, and public and private pension and retirement plans. We also serve advisors and individuals set on personal financial goals, from preparing for retirement to funding higher education.

For more than four decades, our mission has been grounded in a holistic investment process designed to apply rigorous top-down and bottom-up analysis of inputs to identify investment opportunities and risks. Since our founding in Newport Beach, California, in 1971, we have grown into a team of more than 2,300 dedicated professionals, with offices in 12 countries and trading operations in North America, Europe and Asia. We have an established reputation of innovation, and we continue to evolve as a provider of investment solutions across all asset classes.

Our commitment to the Forté Foundation goes along with the continued effort to enhance and maintain a leadership role in the industry by engaging as wide a pool of talent as possible and integrating different perspectives for success in an increasingly complex global environment.

For more information visit: www.pimco.com/careers or follow us @PIMCO.


Corporate Partners

Bank of America

Whether it’s raising capital in Mumbai or hedging currencies in Stockholm, the powerful combination of Bank of America means we can do more for our clients than any other financial services firm. We understand the challenges our clients face around the world, and we tap the full resources of our company to help them achieve their goals. Our solutions span the complete range of advisory, capital raising, banking, treasury and liquidity, sales and trading, and research capabilities.

Combining a dominant corporate bank and world-class investment bank, Bank of America has created a financial powerhouse of deep industry, regional, product and strategic expertise serving clients in over 150 countries through more than 40 offices across the world. As the bank of choice for 99% of the U.S. Fortune 500 and 96% of the Global Fortune 500, Bank of America is the place to be for talented professionals who are serious about seizing opportunities to make a difference and helping to shape the future of global banking.


Bloomberg

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to approximately 325,000 subscribers globally. Diversity & Inclusion at Bloomberg is our commitment to fostering an inclusive culture where employees feel respected for their diversity and empowered to impact the business globally.

Women at Bloomberg

 

Bloomberg Women's Community connects and supports women at Bloomberg through awareness, relationship-building and career development. The Bloomberg Women in Technology group encourages women to be leaders in technology and focuses on supporting leadership development, recruitment and retention efforts within the company, as well as mentoring young women pursuing STEM educational and career paths.

Bloomberg's Financial Services Gender-Equality Index

Last year, Bloomberg launched the inaugural Bloomberg Financial Services Gender-Equality Index, recognizing 26 firms for their commitment to gender equality. The index provides investors with valuable reference data across internal company statistics, employee policies, gender-conscious product offerings and external community engagement.


Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers. As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse operates in over 50 countries worldwide and employs approximately 47,600 people.

Credit Suisse aims to be the employer of choice by attracting and retaining the best and most diverse talent. Our diversity strategy is based on the idea of “engaging difference”: leveraging the diverse perspectives of all of our employees to achieve our business goals.

We’re building a talent-driven culture, where the best people—regardless of their race, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion or nationality—are free to realize their full potential.

Credit Suisse offers a variety of programs and professional networks to foster the career development of women. The Credit Suisse Americas Women’s Network (AWN) is focused on recruiting top female talent, fostering the promotion and advancement of women, and building women’s leadership. The AWN offers professional development, mentoring, advocacy, education, awareness programs. Examples of programs offered by the AWN in 2009 included:

The AWN is also a proud partner with a variety of external affiliates, including 100 Women in Hedge Funds, 85 Broads, Catalyst, the Financial Women's Association and The Women's Bond Club.

In addition to the AWN, Credit Suisse offers benefit programs to help women balance their professional and personal lives. We provide a full complement of flexible work arrangements, adoption assistance and adoption leave, domestic partner benefits, and back-up child and eldercare. We also offer health, nutrition, and wellness programs, and nursing areas for working mothers.

Our commitment to fostering the careers of women is demonstrated by the fact that we have been recognized for multiple consecutive years by Working Mother Magazine as among the “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.”


Raymond James

Raymond James has always been a different kind of financial services firm, embracing long-term planning, valuing methodical decision-making and remaining focused on what matters most: our clients. Founded in 1962 and a public company since 1983, Raymond James Financial, Inc. is a Florida-based diversified holding company providing financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through its subsidiary companies engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to capital markets and asset management. Today, our client-focused approach has extended to serve client accounts through approximately 8,100 financial advisors in the United States, Canada and overseas.

We have been recognized nationally for community support and corporate philanthropy, we also been ranked as one of the best in the country in customer service, as a great place to work and as a national leader in support of the arts.

When you bring your skill and experience to Raymond James, you’ll become part of something bigger than a financial planning and investment services firm. You’ll become a part of helping a couple feel more confident about retiring, of helping a family plan for the next generation, of helping entrepreneurs introduce game-changing ideas and of helping communities continue to thrive.

Raymond James Cares

"Giving back to the communities in which we live and work" is a phrase that’s been part of our mission from the beginning, and it’s our commitment to putting others first from our clients to our neighbors that was established at our founding and is an integral part of our culture today. We’re proud to continue the legacy started by Raymond James founder Bob James by investing our time, money and talents into the communities we serve. It’s so much more than tradition it’s who we are.

You Belong Here

From the beginning, Raymond James has focused on helping clients achieve and maintain financial well-being. But equally important is how we treat the people who serve those clients. Between our five national inclusion networks, advisor inclusion networks and firm-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives, we’re building a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment where everyone feels welcomed, valued, respected and heard.


Evercore

Evercore is a premier independent investment banking advisory firm with 1,400 employees and a global presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Evercore was ranked by Vault.com as #1 of the 50 Best Internships and #1 for Formal Training and Diversity with Regards to Women.

Established in 1995, Evercore is a leading global independent investment banking advisory firm. Evercore advises a diverse set of investment banking clients on a wide range of transactions and issues and provides institutional investors with high quality equity research, sales and trading execution that is free of the conflicts created by proprietary activities. The firm also offers investment management services to high net worth and institutional investors. With 28 offices in North America, Europe, South America and Asia, Evercore has the scale and strength to serve clients globally through a focused and tailored approach designed to meet their unique needs. More information about Evercore can be found on the Company's website at www.evercore.com.

We seek to differentiate ourselves through unstinting adherence to our core values. The firm's investment bankers provide objective counsel to senior executives and Boards of Directors on a range of complex business and financial issues, including M&A, takeover defense, shareholder value creation, corporate governance, and asset divestitures. The restructuring advisory team provides financial restructuring services, strategic advice and related investment banking services to companies in financial transition as well as to their interest holders.


Guggenheim

Guggenheim Partners is a global investment and advisory firm. Across our three primary businesses of investment management, investment banking, and insurance services, we have a track record of delivering results through innovative solutions. Our commitment is to advance the strategic interests of our clients and to deliver long-term results with excellence and integrity.

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners. Guggenheim Securities offers services that fall into four broad categories: Advisory, Financing, Sales and Trading, and Research. Guggenheim Securities is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Chicago, Boston, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Guggenheim Securities is a fast-growing platform with an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to hiring the best talent. Guggenheim Securities is looking for top performers who are willing to work hard in an environment where initiative, creativity, maturity and enthusiasm for learning are highly valued.

A diverse and inclusive workforce is critical to innovative solutions for increasingly complex challenges. When multiple perspectives are valued and considered, the Firm is poised for greater creativity, enhanced business strategies, product and service development as well as greater employee engagement and collaboration.


Hines

Hines is a privately owned, international real estate firm that has provided the highest level of quality, service and value to its clients and investors for nearly 60 years.

With a presence in 201 cities around the globe and investor relationships with many of the world's largest financial institutions, Hines has the breadth of experience, the network of expertise and the financial strength to assume complex and challenging investment, development and management projects.

Company Highlights

Diversity Commitment

Hines is driven by a commitment to excellence, integrity and innovation. Employees are essential to our success, and we are dedicated to attracting, developing and promoting a talented, diverse and multicultural workforce. We strive to provide an inclusive environment where differences are valued, embraced and celebrated, and where everyone can reach their full potential. Diverse perspectives advance new ideas and foster our entrepreneurial culture, creating successful outcomes for our firm as well as our partners, clients, investors and employees.


J.P. Morgan

At J.P. Morgan, our mission is simple: first-class business…in a first-class way. In everything we do, excellence and integrity are the guiding principles. Excellence means more than 160 years of experience and knowledge that comes from solving the complexities of significant wealth, day in and day out. We augment this knowledge with some of the boldest, most innovative thinking today. Integrity means keeping your interests front and center always and carrying out our work with utter discretion.

In each key area of wealth management—investments, liquidity and credit management, and, along with your independent advisors, tax and estate planning—our extensive experience is exemplary. Equally important, we have the experience, the organizational structure and the commitment to knit these separate strands into a unified and comprehensive plan designed around your particular situation.

We understand that our collective diversity is our strength and are committed to creating an inclusive organization where everyone can succeed based on merit. We hire and develop people with unique experiences and diverse backgrounds because we believe that is a fundamental part of strengthening our global business capabilities. We understand that different perspectives bring strength and creativity to our work and lead to the best solutions for our clients. J.P. Morgan offers internship opportunities and scholarships to students of diverse backgrounds and participates in a wide variety of career events to attract diverse candidates.


PNC

At PNC, we have a great appreciation for the power of diversity and inclusion. In fact, diversity is one of the core values that have been developed by our employees. More than that, it's an integral part of our daily business practices and recruitment strategy. When people with different ideas, experiences and backgrounds work together to achieve common goals, it's inspiring and motivating. It's also what you’ll experience as a PNC employee.

Whether serving an individual or institution, PNC can help clients bank intelligently and easily through several major businesses: Asset Management Group, Corporate & Institutional Banking, Coporate Functions, PNC Mortgage and Retail Banking.

Learn more about our culture and our careers at www.pnc.jobs.

PNC provides equal opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law. 


PNC

The Raine Group is a global merchant bank exclusively focused in the high growth sectors of Technology, Media and Telecommunications. Founded in 2009, Raine currently has over 140 professionals across its New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Shanghai and Mumbai offices. Raine pursues an integrated business model of advisory services and investments centered around the entertainment, gaming, lifestyle, digital media and sports sectors.

Raine provides a wide range of advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private capital raising and strategic advice. To date, the firm has advised on transactions across five continents including cross-border transactions. Further, Raine manages more than $4bn across its growth equity, venture and hedge funds. Raine’s growth equity funds have completed 30 principal investments to date across its target sectors. Raine’s growth, venture and next-generation communications strategies seek investments in fast-growing TMT enterprises, where Raine uses its industry expertise to provide strategic guidance to portfolio companies and help them drive growth through Raine’s global network. Please visit Raine’s website to learn more about our integrated platform and transactions completed to date: www.raine.com.

Raine is looking to further build its team to deepen its coverage within its core sectors through its undergraduate and MBA internship programs. Raine values a collaborative culture focused on inclusivity, diversity, and empowerment and is proud to be partnering with Forte on their Fast Track to Finance conference. To learn more about opportunities at Raine, please contact. recruiting@raine.com.


Vanguard

Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the expertise, stability, and reliable investment approach Vanguard offers.

From our beginning in 1975, Vanguard set course as a very different kind of investment firm. Our purpose remains: "To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success."


Vanguard

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals. Our staff members are committed to making a difference in our organization, for our client partners and the patients we serve. We seek individuals with proven competencies and strong character to help lead our organization now and into the future.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are essential to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop unique career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #92 on the 2022 Fortune 100 list and with revenues of approximately $40 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.

Women's Empowerment

The Women's Empowerment BRG is committed to making Thermo Fisher Scientific one of the world's most admired companies by fostering the advancement of women and building a corporate culture in which women colleagues are recruited, valued, developed, empowered, retained, and promoted globally.

Awards & Recognition

Top 100 Internship Programs presented by Yello & WayUp
The Best Employers for New Grads 2022 presented by Forbes
HBCU Connect’s Top 50 employer of HBCU students & graduates for 2021
Women’s Choice Awards 2022: Best Companies for Women, Diversity, & Millennials
2022 Campus Forward Award winner: Largest Early Talent Programs


Wells Fargo Securities

Wells Fargo is driven by our values to achieve our vision, which is to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs, and help them succeed financially. We consider our people as our competitive advantage, and strive to attract, develop, retain and motivate the most talented people we can find.

We are a nationwide, diversified financial services company with $1.7 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance services through more than 8,700 locations, more than 12,500 ATMs, online (wellsfargo.com), and mobile devices.

At the end of fourth quarter 2014, Wells Fargo ranked fourth in assets among U.S. banks and was the world’s most valuable bank by market capitalization. In 2014, Wells Fargo was named “Most Respected Bank” by Barron’s magazine, “Most Admired” among the world’s largest banks by Fortune magazine, and “Best U.S. Bank” by The Banker magazine. The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Wells Fargo’s corporate cash giving in the top two among all U.S. companies each of the past two years.

We want to be an employer of choice, a company that really cares about people, where teamwork is valued and rewarded, where how the work gets done is just as important as getting the work done…We want every team member to be able to say, "I chose the right company. I’m valued. I’m rewarded. I’m recognized. We work hard, but we have fun, too. I can improve my professional skills here. I can reach my career goals. I enjoy my work."


School Partners

MIT

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business attracts and nurtures a new kind of business leader who has the power to bring out strengths in others and move teams forward toward a common purpose. Our community is made up of students and faculty from around the world who thrive in an environment with differing viewpoints. We bring them together to inform a leadership style that inspires entire organizations to do better while doing what’s best. With everything from full-time programs to those for working professionals, Fuqua gives students a safe place to push their limits and try new things in the format that works best for them. Ultimately, we measure the success of our graduates by their impact on workplaces and the world around them, by their relationships and reputations.


MIT

The MIT Sloan School of Management is where smart, independent leaders come together to invent the future. As MIT’s school of management, MIT Sloan combines rigorous study with practical application and a drive for impact in the world. MIT Sloan brings together a brilliant community of students and faculty from around the world to tackle today’s most complex global challenges.

Smashing the Glass Ceiling

MIT Sloan brings together dynamic women to invent the future:

  • Women have made up at least 40 percent of our MBA class every year since 2013.
  • In 2018, 10 MIT alumnae were named to Inc.’s Female Founders 100.
  • 3 MIT Sloan alumnae were recognized on Forbes’ 2018 30 Under 30.

From measuring a heartbeat to rethinking rocket science, these women are changing the world with innovative, successful businesses.

MIT Sloan Women in Management: Open to all MIT Sloan students, SWIM actively supports, empowers, and mobilizes women to thrive academically, socially, and professionally for success. The club fosters this environment across the school through events, education, and networking.

Our MBA programs

MBA program

Through intellectual rigor and experiential learning, this two-year program will help you leave your mark in the world.

MIT Sloan MBA Early Admission

Is an MBA in your five-year plan but you need some experience in the workforce, first? Explore the MIT Sloan MBA Early Admission option to secure your spot in a future MBA class.

Leaders for Global Operations program

In two years, develop management expertise and technical engineering skills, and graduate with your MBA and SM in engineering.

MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program

The MIT Sloan Fellows MBA is a full-time one-year transformative educational experience designed for mid-career, high-potential leaders and entrepreneurs.

Executive MBA program

In a 20 months, executive format schedule, you’ll transform your organization in real time, while challenging convention and yourself.

Culture of Contribution

Students at MIT Sloan immediately tap into the synergy they find on campus. We often hear students marvel at how everyone pitches in to help you attain your goals. Ask anyone what makes MIT Sloan such a special place, and you will inevitably hear about the people here that make up our community—smart, open, inventive and grounded people, who eagerly collaborate toward common goals.


University of Virginia (Darden Business School)

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is one of the world's leading business schools, offering MBA, MS in Business Analytics, PhD and Executive Education programs. The unique Darden experience combines the best educational experience, featuring the case method of teaching; the highest-ranked faculty, whose research advances global managerial practice and business education; and a dynamic, global network of students, faculty, staff and alumni. These three key elements come together to develop entrepreneurial, global and responsible leaders who step forward to improve the world.

Darden women make a significant impact every day — at Darden, in Charlottesville and around the world. They are student club presidents, community leaders, entrepreneurs and more. Darden is committed to recruiting women who want to positively impact the world, and empowering them for long-term success in whatever role they choose.

Furthermore, Darden's chapter of Graduate Women in Business (GWIB) connects, empowers, and celebrates the next generation of women leaders and helps build awareness of women in leadership positions. Throughout the year, they engage students, alumnae, faculty and prospective students in activities ranging from senior speaker series to golf lessons to mentoring programs. Moreover, GWIB's goal is to use education, coaching, networking, and mentoring to foster a lifelong community that enables and empowers Darden women to achieve their professional and personal aspirations, both during and after their time at Darden. In addition, Darden is one of the few MBA programs that provide dedicated lifelong career services resources for its alumni. The Alumni Career Services staff understands the career path of a woman may not always look like that of her male counterparts. Our professional staff provides Darden alumnae with resources and support as they move through different phases of their careers.


University of Virginia (Darden Business School)

The SMU Cox School of Business, located in the heart of Dallas, offers 100 years of experience in business education, internationally renowned faculty, ambitious peers and globally connected alumni. Cox is a proud, long-standing sponsor school with the Forté Foundation. We believe in their mission to help women rise to leadership positions within the business world, and we are committed to advancing women in business. Cox offers nationally-ranked MBA programs with a focus on three foundational pillars: Leadership, Analytics, and Experiential Learning.

SMU Cox equips students with the skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience to succeed in business by offering a full range of graduate degree programs. Our six MBA programs include full-time, part-time, and online options. We also offer seven specialized master’s programs and three dual degree MBA programs.

The SMU Cox Full-Time MBA program has awarded more than 75 Forté Fellow scholarships to female MBA students in the past five years. All female applicants are automatically considered for these scholarships, with priority given to applicants who apply in the first two rounds.

At SMU Cox, women from every graduate business program are encouraged to participate in the Women in Business Club, making this student-led organization one of the largest in the business school. Its mission is to promote the role of women in business and provide ongoing inspiration and support for women to achieve their goals. The club promotes professional and personal development through social and networking events, guest speakers and mentoring opportunities in addition to these annual noteworthy events:

The SMU Cox Full-Time MBA program has awarded more than 75 Forté Fellow scholarships to female MBA students in the past five years. All female applicants are automatically considered for these scholarships, with priority given to applicants who apply in the first two rounds. In the past two years, over 70% of female MBA students were awarded scholarships.

At Cox, women from every graduate business program are encouraged to participate in the Women in Business Club, making this student-led organization one of the largest in the business school. Its mission is to promote the role of women in business and provide ongoing inspiration and support for women to achieve their goals.

The Women in Business Club is a registered chapter of the National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA). All students who are members of the Women in Business Club receive a free membership to NAWMBA. Additional Women in Business Club partnerships include Ellevate and Network of Executive Women.

We invite you to connect and learn how SMU Cox can support your academic aspirations and professional goals.


Carnegie Mellon

The Tepper School of Business thrives at the heart of Carnegie Mellon University and embodies its forward-thinking culture and spirit of innovation; from artificial intelligence to intelligent systems; the Tepper School is the birthplace of the data-informed and emotionally intelligent approach to business: The Intelligent Future. Ranked among the world’s top business schools by leading international business publications, the school offers a STEM-certified MBA program in four formats: Full-Time, Part-Time Online Hybrid, Part-Time Flex, and Part-Time Accelerated. Additional programs include MS degrees in Product Management, Business Analytics and Computational Finance; undergraduate business and economics, a doctorate program for Ph.D. candidates; and Tepper Executive Education. With the ability to leverage technology and analyze data, and by imparting behavioral skills that focus on emotional intelligence, the Tepper School fosters an innovative approach: a future fueled by data, powered by technology, and reimagined by human intelligence.

At the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, our commitment to enhancing opportunities for women graduates is reflected in a culture that emphasizes transformation, teamwork and innovation. We believe in the potential of each student, and we partner with you to develop both the hard skills strategic, analytical decision making and the soft skills confidence and poise that are necessary for leadership in today's global marketplace. We also believe in options, which is why we offer one MBA in three different formats: full-time, part-time on-campus and part-time online hybrid.

Our alumni community, which spans 33 chapters in 19 US cities and over 14 countries, is a tight-knit family that opens doors for one another into a variety of job functions and industries. An MBA serves as an ideal platform for pursuing career paths that make a difference. From entrepreneurial start-ups to global enterprises, our students work in positions that directly impact both social and management issues.
Attracting and advancing women is a priority at the Tepper School of Business. In addition to offering Forté Fellowships, we participate in a portfolio of initiatives including Forté Forums, MBALaunch and Forté conferences. We also have Forté Ambassadors to help our women students take full advantage of the Forté network. Each year, the Tepper School and the Tepper Women in Business club host a women's leadership conference to enhance the development of current and prospective students and elevate the conversation among businesswomen in the region.
At the Tepper School, you won't just be a number; our intentionally small class size (approximately 220 in our full-time program) facilitates exceptional opportunities for leadership, networking and community engagement.



IESE

The founding mission of the Yale School of Management is to educate leaders for business and society. We seek students who care deeply about the problems afflicting our world. We equip them with the knowledge, the resources, and the networks to pursue positive and ambitious change.

An essential part of that mission-driven effort is to recruit, support, and train women who want to make a positive difference in the world by leading with rigor and heart across all kinds of organizations.

In our collaborative and tight-knit community, your voice will be heard and your perspective and experience will be valued. Women at Yale SOM have many opportunities for personal and professional growth, through events hosted by the student-run Women in Management Club and by connecting with women faculty, alumnae, and visiting speakers. Discussions of gender diversity in the workplace are a part of the integrated core curriculum. Our graduates are leaders of organizations that are creating new opportunities for women every day. We invite you to learn more about the Yale School of Management and our community. Join us at an upcoming event, schedule a campus visit, contact a student Admissions Ambassador, or reach out to our admissions team at mba.admissions@yale.edu.


PNC

Are you a senior in college thinking about earning an MBA? Rice Business has the perfect solution. As a forward-thinking, top-ranked business school in Houston, Texas — one of the country’s largest and most diverse cities — we’re committed to preparing you to be the global leader, innovator and change maker you have always wanted to be. Apply early through our deferred enrollment program and secure your spot in a future Full-Time MBA class after working two to five years.Won’t it be great to know what your future holds? International students and all majors are welcome to apply.

If you’re admitted to the deferred MBA enrollment program, we encourage you to explore all sorts of career options — from traditional business industries to startups — during your two to five years to help you develop professional and leadership skills during the required pre-MBA work.

Here, we focus on three things — being attentive, responsive and kind. No matter your personal journey, we’ve built a program for you. As a student, you’ll learn from world-class faculty as well as classmates with different backgrounds and perspectives in an intimate, collaborative community that cares about where you want to go and how you want to get there.

At Rice Business, we hold your ambitions with equal reverence and show you how to make them a reality. And we start that early on campus, offering an undergraduate business major and minor along with an entrepreneurship minor.

We know business school is about more than academics. We surround you with trailblazers at Rice, in the Houston community and beyond, who have masterfully paved the way as women in business and offer their invaluable support to you during this transformative time.

Full-Time MBA By The Numbers
We are proud to welcome high-quality Full-Time MBA students in the Class of 2024, including:

Rankings

# 1 Graduate Entrepreneurship - Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine, 2020 (almost 10 years in Top 10)

# 5 Best Classroom Experience - Princeton Review, 2022

# 6 Best MBA for Finance - Princeton Review, 2022

# 10 Best MBA for Consulting - Princeton Review, 2022

# 24 U.S. MBA Program - Poets & Quants, 2021-2022

Rice Business: You Belong Here

https://business.rice.edu/rice-mba/tight-knit-culture



IESE

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the world’s first collegiate school of business. Each year the Wharton MBA Program prepares hundreds of women worldwide to pursue their professional careers in the for-profit, non-profit and government sectors. In the Wharton MBA Program, you will develop your management toolkit through rigorous and analytical coursework and learn by leading to develop yourself as a confident decision maker.

Women come to Wharton for its customizable and flexible curriculum, diverse perspectives and global view, and academic excellence across every major discipline. With 225 faculty, 19 majors, 200 electives, and 13+ interdisciplinary programs, Wharton gives you the opportunity to grow through a multidimensional and interconnected experience, inside and outside the classroom.

Wharton was the first elite business school to reach gender parity: 52% of the Wharton MBA Class of 2023 and 50% of the Wharton MBA Class of 2024 are women. Wharton Women in Business (WWIB) remains one of our most active graduate clubs. Their mission is to empower all Wharton women to achieve their full potential in their personal and professional endeavors. WWIB focuses on issues relevant to women in business, providing social and networking opportunities with fellow students, alumnae, faculty, administrators, executives, and entrepreneurs. WWIB is both a social and professional organization, spearheading efforts within Wharton and the greater business community regarding admissions, alumni outreach, professional development, and recruiting. WWIB organizes and sponsors a number of events, including:

Upon graduation, Wharton women find ample opportunity to build social and professional ties to last a lifetime, as they join a network of over 100,000 MBA alumni.