ADVISORY/MIT Sloan Women in Business & Technology Symposium 'Making It to the Top - Executive-level Women: Issues, Challenges, and Success Stories' May 15th, 2004.Business Editors/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Saturday (May 15) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2004 MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, in association with Catalyst, Inc., presents its 2nd Annual Women in Business & Technology Symposium Making It to the Top, MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston's 2nd Annual Women in Business & Technology Symposium, will be held at the Hotel@MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. on May 15th, 2004. The 2004 Symposium is being brought to you in association with Catalyst Inc., the leading nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business. In the past decade women in the business world have reached significant milestones and made enormous progress. As an increasing number of women join the senior ranks of companies and organizations, they continue to face unique challenges, issues, and choices. At our 2004 Symposium, over 16 distinguished speakers and panelists will share their views about what it takes to Make It to the Top, describe their experiences blazing trails in politics and business, and offer personal stories of finding work-life balance The expression work-life balance was first used in 1986 in the US (although had been used in the UK from the late 1970s by organisations such as New Ways to Work and the Working Mother's Association) to help explain the unhealthy life choices that many people were making; they were in the face of ever increasing demands. The 2004 Symposium will feature keynote speakers Jane Swift Jane Maria Swift (born February 24, 1965) is an American politician from Melrose, Massachusetts. A Republican, she served as Acting Governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003. Swift is the first woman to serve as a Governor of Massachusetts (albeit unelected). , Partner at Arcadia Partners and former Governor of the State of Massachusetts; Ilene Lang, President of Catalyst, and Founder of AltaVista; and Robin Chase, MIT Sloan SM '86, Founder, Vice-Chair and former CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Zipcar. The Symposium will also feature additional panelists including: Shirley Singleton, CEO of Edgewater Technology; and Stephanie Sonnabend, MIT Sloan SM '79, CEO and President of Sonesta International Hotels. The all-day Symposium is organized around three panels with over 16 speakers who will address the following questions: 1. Is the Executive Level Right for You? 2. What is the Executive-level Experience across Different Industries and in Large versus Small Companies? 3. What is the Value of Networks from an Executive-level Perspective? Admission includes continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, networking cocktail party, event program and a one-year free subscription to Women Business Boston. Early registration is encouraged as space is limited and prices are subject to increase. The event is open to all interested parties. Special thanks to the MIT Sloan Club of Boston yearly sponsors, Monderer Design, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , Ripple Effect ripple effect Epidemiology See Signal event. Communications, and SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. . Also special thanks to our Making It to the Top Bronze sponsors, Analysis Group and Putnam Investments, and to our Coffee Break sponsors, 85Broads and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . To become a sponsor for this event, please contact Suzanne Salas at ssalas@mit.edu. For more information, please visit www.MITSloanWomensEvent.com. You may also contact Suzanne Salas at ssalas@mit.edu or Rebecca Schechter at Rebecca.schechter@thomson.com.
MIT Sloan Women in Business & Technology Symposium
Date: May 15th, 2004
Time: 9:15 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Place: Hotel@MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Price: $80 members, $110 non-members, $35 MIT students prior to
registration deadline.
Directions: http://hotelatmit.com/ancill/directions.html
Parking: Hotel@MIT parking garage
Registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=59323
|
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion