Early beneficiary of the mission of The Consortium pays it forward
When Alvin Marley received The Consortium’s Wallace L. Jones Alumni Lifetime Achieve Award in 2013, he stood at the podium in New Orleans to accept it and was amazed at the energy pouring toward him...
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Business school preparation: Students share task of preparing the next MBA class
This is a guest post by Fabrizzio Chaves, a Consortium member and a member of the Cornell class of 2017. As a Consortium liaison, he writes of his efforts to help integrate the next class into the MBA...
View ArticlePoets & Quants ‘best and brightest MBAs’ includes host of Consortium alumni
Poets & Quants highlighted its annual list of the “Best and Brightest MBAs” in the class of 2016 from business schools across the country. The list included a number of Consortium alumni — students...
View ArticleConsortium job postings: Alumni relations and individual giving
We have two openings at The Consortium for critical roles in the organization. Please let us know if you can recommend a candidate, or forward these to anyone you think might be interested. Please send...
View ArticleConsortium alumna’s parents contribute $1 million endowment in her memory
The family of an MBA student and fellow of The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management has established a $1 million scholarship endowment to the nonprofit organization in the name of their daughter...
View ArticleThe Consortium’s 2016 Schoen, Jones and Thorp award recipients
Lifelong commitment to diversity and inclusion work; stewardship of The Consortium; and intense focus and commitment to the cause of The Consortium at the university and corporate level—these traits...
View Article1st Consortium students: ‘Never even imagined’ business was a possibility
For members of the first class of Consortium students in the mid-1960s, the notion of a business career involved running a barber shop or a funeral home. They only thought about small businesses....
View ArticleDerica Rice: Consortium alum’s differences have made a difference
Because he was a little different, Consortium alumnus Derica Rice met the queen of England — and his wife. Rice, Eli Lilly and Company‘s executive vice president of global services and chief financial...
View ArticleAffirmative action ruling in University of Texas case a great gift
The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management congratulates the University of Texas for its victory in the landmark affirmative action case before the United States Supreme Court. In Fisher v....
View ArticleEmory wins T.E.A.M. trophy for 2016 contributions to diversity, The Consortium
The Consortium awarded its 2016 T.E.A.M. trophy to Emory University Goizueta Business School, recognizing students’ contribution to diversity awareness and the mission of The Consortium. T.E.A.M....
View ArticleConsortium alumna Kim Harris Jones: Weathered spinoffs, Chrysler bankruptcy
The year 2009 wore out Consortium alumna Kim Harris Jones. The 1986 University of Michigan MBA and Consortium member had spent 23 years in the auto industry. That year, as senior vice president and...
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Consortium referrals: 13 students recommended by you
About eight months ago, The Consortium launched a new process to accept and track Consortium referrals. We get them often through our alumni outreach efforts, but we also added a new referral page to...
View ArticleConsortium member schools hosting ‘diversity’ events on campus
Hundreds of potential MBA students will deploy to campuses across the country this fall seeking a taste of life in business school. Business schools — including The Consortium’s 18 member schools —...
View ArticleSchools spotlight 2 Consortium students committed to diversity message
Two Consortium member schools recently shared stories of Consortium students with very different backgrounds, from very different parts of the world. Yet they share a common vision of what diversity...
View ArticleAlums, sign up to represent The Consortium at recruiting events
The Consortium’s recruiting team begins its fall travel this month. We need your help. Prospective MBA students are anxious to connect with Consortium alumni. We have our heaviest slate of Consortium...
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Meet the Consortium recruiting team
We’re fresh off our 50th annual Orientation Program & Career Forum and the Consortium recruiting season is already in full swing. Members of the Consortium recruiting team are already answering...
View ArticleThanks, alumni, for being Consortium ambassadors
We’re grateful for the dozens of alumni who have already answered Friday’s call for Consortium ambassadors. So far, 87 have agreed to help at our fall recruiting events. It’s a big time for us. We...
View ArticleLouis Jordan: Too few African American mentors in business
It’s a long way from the home of a Baptist minister in north Philly to the Sonoma County wine country in California, where Louis Jordan owns a vineyard. He couldn’t have made that journey without The...
View ArticleLou Garcia: Lauding the power of the MBA
Louis Garcia, a member of The Consortium’s fourth class (Indiana ’72), says the power of the MBA is what carried his career from coast to coast and from universal as bingo and as sophisticated as...
View ArticleFacilitating mid-career moves for experienced alumni
At The Consortium, we’re great at launching post-MBA careers. In my new role at The Consortium, we’re going to get great at cultivating mid-career moves, pairing alumni with our corporate partners at...
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