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Catching up with the 1st Wallace L. Jones Fellowship recipient
Twenty years ago, nearly 300 first- and second-year Consortium students gathered at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta for the 30th Orientation Program & Career Forum. In addition to being a...
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Meet The Consortium’s corporate and fund development team
Our corporate and fund development team is a hearty band of mostly newcomers to The Consortium, responsible for building, cultivating and maintaining our organization’s engagement with corporate...
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Update your CGSM Online profile (so employers and we can find you)
One of the cornerstones of The Consortium’s community is our ability to stay in touch. We want to be able to find you. We want you to be able to find us. We want our alumni members to be able to find...
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Guest Post: Why you might consider getting an MBA
Nkem Nwankwo The Consortium welcomes guest blogger Nkem Nwankwo, a 2015 Consortium and University of Michigan, Ross School of Business alumnus. He is a product manager at Microsystems, a software...
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Responding to our 2015 Consortium alumni survey results
A Consortium alumni survey in November has yielded several initiatives here at headquarters responding to needs our community has shared — and one that we apparently anticipated before the survey even...
View ArticleKeith Vaughn: Advocating for minority business students
Keith Vaughn has been an advocate for strong minority business students for many years. For 10 years, he served on the board of director for The Consortium and worked in the admissions office at the...
View ArticleStarting business school: Follow 5 students on their way
Separation from friends and family. Remembering how to study again. Breaking the back of the GRE or GMAT. Managing the time to apply against the rest of life’s demands. Finding a school that fits....
View ArticleSeattle’s Consortium alumni welcome class of 2016
The Seattle Consortium alumni chapter welcomed the Consortium graduates and their spouses to Optimism Brewery on Sept. 21, bringing in several alumni from the University of Southern California; the...
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Networking advice: How to stand out among standouts
Ramsey Jay Jr. This guest blog post on networking advice was written by Ramsey Jay Jr., Consortium fellow (Dartmouth, 2005) and a Wall Street-trained finance professional. He’s also the author of the...
View ArticleThree women working to revitalize Consortium alumni network
The Consortium is grateful to Amber House (Wisconsin, 2014) for sharing insights about plans to revitalize our Consortium alumni network, along with Amy Patel (USC, 2015) and Stella Ashaolu (USC,...
View ArticleAdmit.me and Consortium cohosting upcoming webinar (video)
We appreciated the chance to meet Eric Allen, president and co-founder at Admit.me, a few weeks ago when he stopped for a visit at Consortium headquarters. He spoke with our director of recruiting,...
View ArticleEmerson: Interviewing advice for young executive candidates
We were privileged to hear from Emerson’s CEO, David Farr, during our 50th annual Orientation Program & Career Forum in June. Emerson is a global Fortune 500 company and a longtime partner of The...
View ArticleThe place for MBAs at Facebook: From a Sept. 15 live event
Consortium partners frequently host webinars to expose our students and alumni to employment opportunities, information about their corporate culture and how they go about recruiting and retaining team...
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Consortium business schools support #BlackLivesMatter
A growing number of business schools around the United States have shown their support for and solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement — including many of the Consortium member schools. Students...
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Consortium schools lead women’s business leadership event series
A women’s business leadership initiative to introduce prospects to the opportunities of an MBA education — while passing along leadership lessons they can apply immediately — has sprouted into a...
View ArticlePhyllis Scott Buford stamps: A hat-tip to her leadership
No one can argue that Phyllis Scott Buford didn’t put her stamp on The Consortium. Today, we’ve begun another small commemoration of Dr. Buford’s life. For the balance of 2016, we’re covering postage...
View ArticleReturning Peace Corps volunteer finds skills that transfer to business
Tahira Taylor realized that volunteering for the Peace Corps at both ends of the African continent means gaining a host of skills that serve her well as a Georgetown University MBA student. The...
View ArticleConsortium on #GivingTuesday: How you can support us
You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, right? But have you heard about #GivingTuesday? It’s the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and it follows those two well-known hallmarks of holiday consumerism,...
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Consortium family ties: 3 related alumni preceded current student
First-year business student and Consortium fellow Alejandro Bolívar-Cervoni knew from a young age he wanted to get his MBA. And he knew how it could happen, thanks to Consortium family ties with his...
View ArticleFirst Consortium grad: MBA meant there was ‘nothing I couldn’t do’
The very first Consortium grad received his MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 18 months after entering the program with the first 21 Consortium recruits. Larry Harris said the accomplishment...
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