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Rutgers Business School

RECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS


What programs and initiatives has your school found successful in the recruitment of minority and/or female students?
The Rutgers Business School partners with the PhD Project, which supports minority students in doctoral programs.

Please describe any scholarship and/or fellowship opportunities for minority and/or female students attending your school.
William M. Freeman Fellowship
This fellowship was provided by William Freeman to support full-time incoming MBA students at Rutgers Business School. Preference is given to
students from underrepresented minority groups with a GPA of 3.3 or higher.

Ralph Bunche Fellowship


The Bunche Fellowships are awarded to minority students in recognition of their outstanding achievement and potential for graduate study, and
normally cover tuition plus a stipend of $15,000 per academic year or two Rutgers Business School terms. Applications should be completed and
filed by March 15th.

Department of Education Fellowship


The funds are granted by the United States for minorities enrolled in Rutgers Business School’s graduate programs. The selection of recipients is based
upon academic promise and financial need. Preference is given to students enrolled in the PhD in management program, or with potential to go on
to the doctoral level.

Edmund L. Houston Foundation Program Fellowship


The Houston Fellowship is for minority students. A fellowship award in the amount of $4,000 is given to an incoming student who demonstrates
academic excellence, leadership and financial need. Scholarships in varying amounts are awarded to currently enrolled management students based
upon financial need, academic merit and contributions to the community and school. Applicants must complete the Houston Foundation application
obtainable through the office of graduate admissions.

PROMINENT ALUMNI/FACULTY
Please provide information about prominent minority faculty members at your school.
Dr. dt ogilvie, associate professor, management and global business and founding director, Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development
Dr. ogilvie’s research interests include executive leadership strategies of multicultural women executives; women in the executive suite; strategic
decision making and the use of creativity to enhance business and battlefield decision making and applying complexity theory to strategy and creativity;
assessing environmental dimensions; strategic thinking in the 21st century; economic development of the inner city; e-commerce business models;
effective communication for women in business; and technology transfer and countertrade issues in the People’s Republic of China. Her 1990 paper
in Business Perspectives, Should Your Global Strategy Include China? (with James Fitzsimmons), was one of the most requested papers on the
Business Forum on Delphi database. Her areas of expertise include creativity in decision making, executive leadership strategies, strategic decision
making, minority women’s leadership, e-commerce/e-business strategy and doing business in China.

Jeffrey A. Robinson, assistant professor, management and global business


Professor Robinson co-leads the Rutgers Business School’s efforts in the areas of urban entrepreneurship and economic development. He is the
recipient of the 2007 Faculty Pioneer Rising Star Award from the Aspen Institute for his research, teaching and service activities at the intersection of
business and society. His research projects cover the areas of high-growth African-American women entrepreneurs, early stage social
entrepreneurship, inner-city business development and economic development in Western and Southern Africa.

Professor Robinson is the coeditor of the research volume Social Entrepreneurship and the forthcoming, International Perspectives in Social
Entrepreneurship and cofounder of the International Social Entrepreneurship Research Conference. His most recent papers explore the role of social
entrepreneurship and social venture incubators in economic development and the intersection of wealth, race and new venture creation. He advises
several social ventures and social entrepreneurship initiatives including the Louisiana Lt. Governor’s office of social entrepreneurship. His expertise
includes entrepreneurship, urban economic development, entrepreneurial leadership, social entrepreneurship, urban sociology, strategic management,
business and society issues, institutional theory, social networks and urban hiring strategies.

Stevie Watson, assistant professor, supply chain management and marketing sciences
Stevie Watson’s research interests include the effects of strength of ethnic identification, racial attitudes and racial cues on advertising evaluations and
sales employment decisions, public policy issues affecting disadvantaged and vulnerable consumer groups, consumer response to advertising
manipulation and brand imitation strategies and service failures in retail channel environments. His expertise includes ethnic consumer behavior,
advertising, marketing ethics and corporate social responsibility.

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Nabil R. Adam, professor in the department of management science and information systems
In addition to his role as professor, Dr. Adam is director of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity. He is an expert in
database systems, digital libraries, electronic commerce, scheduling and simulation.

Dr. Adam published numerous technical papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems and
International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. He co-authored/coedited nine books including his most recent, Electronic
Commerce: Technical, Business and Legal Issues, published by Prentice Hall in 1998, Databases Issues in GIS, published by Kluwer Academic
Publisher in 1997 and Electronic Commerce, published in 1996 as part of the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science. Dr. Adam
is editor in chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Information Systems
and Journal of Electronic Commerce. He served as a guest editor for the Communications of the ACM, Operations Research and Journal of
Management Information Systems.

Yaw M. Mensah, professor of accounting, business ethics and information systems


In addition to his role as professor, Dr. Mensah is research director of the Center for Governmental Accounting Education and Research. He earned
his PhD at the University of Illinois.

His teaching and research interests are in managerial and financial accounting, particularly in the areas of the evaluation of efficiency and productivity
measurement, the financial reporting of nonprofit institutions and the use of accounting information in the capital markets. Professor Mensah’s
research has been featured in such publications as The Accounting Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and
Financial Management, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Journal of Financial Regulation and
Compliance, The Journal of Management Accounting Research, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and Journal of Accounting, Auditing
& Finance.

Darius Palia, Thomas A. Renyi Senior Faculty Scholar in Banking and professor of finance and economics
Dr. Palia is the founding director of the Rutgers Financial Institutions Center. He is an internationally known scholar in corporate finance (with a focus
on corporate governance) and financial institutions. He has published extensively in the top academic journals such as the Journal of Business, Journal
of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Rand Journal of Economics and Review of Financial Studies and is very widely cited in other academic
studies.

Dr. Palia is regularly invited to present his research to faculty at the top business schools and at the prestigious NBER meetings. He has often testified
as an expert witness in litigation and consults with senior management at various companies. He is cited in publications like USA Today and Star
Ledger.

Prior to joining Rutgers, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Columbia University and UCLA. Dr. Palia earned his PhD at New York
University.

Please provide information about prominent minority alumni from your school.
Alvaro de Molina, MBA 1988, chief executive officer, GMAC LLC
Mr. de Molina is currently the chief executive officer of GMAC. Prior to this position, he spent the past 17 years of his distinguished career at Bank of
America, where he was most recently chief financial officer and a member of the bank’s risk and capital and management operating committees,
managing more than $56 billion in revenue and $16.5 billion in earnings in 2005.

As CFO of Bank of America, Mr. de Molina orchestrated growth strategies for a financial institution that serves more than 55 million consumers with
some 5,800 banking offices and nearly 17,000 ATMs. While CFO, he was instrumental in completing the $35 billion purchase of MBNA, making Bank
of America the nation’s largest credit card issuer. As a result, analysts in The Banker magazine described him as “capable of combining discipline
and a good hard look at the economics of the business with a fresh approach.”

In 2006, Mr. de Molina was instrumental in the Bank of America Charitable Foundation’s million-dollar donation to Rutgers University, to support the
design competition and subsequent design phase of the university’s initiative to transform the historic College Avenue campus. The Bank of America
grant represented the first major commitment of private money to this initiative. Prior to joining Bank of America, he served in the lead financial role
for emerging markets at J.P. Morgan. He began his career in 1979 with PricewaterhouseCoopers and quickly climbed the corporate ladder after
earning his MBA from Rutgers through the executive MBA program.

A native of Havana, Cuba, Mr. de Molina immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1960, when he was three years old, and grew up in
Queens, New York, before later settling in Paramus, and now in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In 2005, Hispanic Magazine named him as one of 25 Key Latino Executives in America, someone who “blended ambition with dreams and the
determination to work hard, study hard and make their mark in the world.” The June 2006 issue of Treasury & Risk Management magazine called
him a “visionary CFO,” and ranked him among the 100 most influential people in finance.

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Please provide information about prominent female faculty members at your school.
Nancy DiTomaso, professor and chair of management and global business
Nancy DiTomaso is professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick. Her research specialties
include the management of diversity and change, the management of knowledge-based organizations and the management of scientists and engineers.
Her PhD is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she previously taught at New York University and Northwestern University. She also has a
certificate in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended Proyecto Linguistico in Quetzeltenango,
Guatemala.

She has co-authored and coedited five books and has had articles published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Sex Roles,
Leadership Quarterly, California Management Review and the Journal of Engineering-Technology Management. She is currently completing a
forthcoming book entitled The American Non-dilemma about how people think about issues of inequality. In addition, she has been analyzing survey
data on the career experiences of 3,200 scientists and engineers from 25 major companies. Her work on the transformation of organizations into
organizations of the future has addressed the changes in the structure of organizations, work and careers and the management skills needed for the
coming decades.

Professor DiTomaso has been elected to several national offices in various professional associations, including a position on the American Sociological
Association council, as chair of the organizations and occupations section of the ASA, and as president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-
Economics. She served as chair of the department of organization management for six years previously and is currently serving in that position. She
also served as doctoral director for the PhD in management program for two years.

In addition to research and teaching, Professor DiTomaso has conducted workshops, offered seminars, conducted survey research and provided other
professional services on a consulting basis for major corporations and public agencies.

Rosa Oppenheim, executive vice dean and professor of management science and information systems
Dean Oppenheim earned her PhD at Polytechnic University. She specializes in statistical process control, total quality management and operations
research.

She is the author of Quality Management: Tools And Methods For Improvement and has published articles on total quality management, statistical
process control, time series analysis and forecasting, the mathematical analysis of literary styles and integer programming. She has also won numerous
teaching awards.

Lei Lei, chair and professor of supply chain management and marketing sciences
Dr. Lei is director of the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management. In addition to teaching MBA courses and working as director, Dr. Lei has also
served as the dissertation adviser of 11 PhD students, co-guest editor for Annals of Operations Research, associate editor of IIE Transactions and Naval
Research Logistics. She is a member of the review board of Journal of Supply Chain Management and the review panel of the National Science
Foundation.

Dr. Lei is an expert in operations scheduling, project resource allocation models, logistics performance optimization and distribution network designs.
She has published many articles in refereed journals such as Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Interfaces, IIE Transactions,
European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research Society and others. She was the leading researcher for an industry
distribution network design project that led to a potential saving of multimillion dollars in 2004. Dr. Lei is the recipient of five teaching excellence awards
at Rutgers Business School since 1990, and was listed in BusinessWeek as one of the two Most Popular Business Professors at Rutgers University.
She earned her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Please provide information about prominent alumnae from your school.


Rosemary T. McFadden, managing director, Credit Suisse First Boston
Rosemary McFadden received both her graduate and undergraduate degrees from Rutgers and then a law degree from Seton Hall. Since then, her
career has spanned the globe.

In 1984, she became the first woman president of any U.S. stock exchange when she was named president and chief executive officer of the New
York Mercantile Exchange, the world’s largest energy futures exchange. She became a global presence in the world of energy, forging professional
relationships with senior government officials, industry executives and international press in London, Tokyo, Singapore and the Middle East. During
her tenure, NYMEX grew at an impressive rate of 70 percent a year.

After leaving the exchange, she remained a force in the expansion of global markets. As senior manager at the International Practice Group of Price
Waterhouse, she spearheaded projects related to the development of capital markets in Russia, the Ukraine, China, the Philippines, Pakistan and
Nepal. As senior vice president and associate general counsel at the Pershing Division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, she continued to work on
international initiatives. And as director of Global Business Development for DLJdirect, an online brokerage firm, she led the company’s first-ever
international expansion strategy, which included the launching of online brokerage businesses in the U.K., Hong Kong, Japan and the Middle East.
The latter two have been recognized publicly for their excellence. She is currently managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston, where her colleagues
speak of her in glowing terms.

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And Rosemary is not just a global business star; she has also brightened the lives of many children in Jersey City and Newark through the philanthropic
work she and her late husband, Brian Doherty, have done at St. Anthony’s High School, the Boys and Girls Club and St. Benedict’s Preparatory School.

Mary Jo Green, BS 1969, MBA, 1970, senior vice president and treasurer, Sony
Mary Jo Green earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers in 1969 and an MBA in accounting a year later. She began her career in 1970
as a senior accountant at McCrory Corporation. Executive-level positions followed at American Cyanamid, Schering-Plough and Pitney Bowes. In 1999,
Sony recruited her to serve as senior vice president and treasurer. In that capacity, she is also senior vice president and general manager of Sony
Global Treasury Services, and assists the top management of Sony’s U.S.-based operating units—including Sony Electronics, Sony Music and Sony
Pictures—develop financial strategies and evaluate investment opportunities. Professionally, she serves on the board of Financial Executives
International, a prestigious organization comprising principally corporate CFOs, treasurers and comptrollers. In 2004, she became only the second
female in that organization’s history to serve as chair.

Holly H. Roberts, MBA 1997, founder, managing partner and senior physician, Women Caring for Women
Dr. Roberts came to the Rutgers executive MBA program with a distinguished medical background. A physician, she had taken residencies and
obtained certification in two specialties—pathology and obstetrics gynecology—and practiced in both. At that time, she was the founder, managing
partner and senior physician for Women Caring for Women, a private medical practice with 11 female physicians in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Previously, she had worked as a family practitioner for a Miami refugee clinic; as an attending pathologist at Cook County Hospital in Chicago; as a
fellow in gynecologic oncology at Johns Hopkins University, performing cancer surgery for women; and in private practice in obstetrics and gynecology.
She also served as a medical missionary, caring for children and adults living in small, impoverished villages in Honduras, Mexico and Peru.

While running Women Caring for Women, it eventually became evident that more space was needed for this growing practice. As a student in the
Rutgers executive MBA program, Dr. Roberts was assigned to write a business plan. She chose to create one for the purchase of a larger building that
would create a surgical center strategically located between two nearby hospitals, and serve to increase the size of her OB-GYN practice.

One year after receiving her MBA, she and two partners bought a multimillion-dollar building, leased it to Meridian Health and a number of other
tenants and sold it three years later for a substantial profit. Dr. Roberts says that she learned during her MBA studies that she is what’s called a natural
entrepreneur. She realized, she says, “I would find a need and say, ‘Why doesn’t somebody do it?’—and do it.” She has since left clinical medicine
in order to write and study, and has become a prolific author, with six published books on philosophy, vegetarianism and nonviolence.

CURRICULUM AND RESEARCH


Please provide information on any classes and concentrations that focus on issues related to women or minorities.
Business, Ethics and Society
After a brief introduction to ethical theory and some techniques for addressing ethical issues in business, students will consider case studies that raise
ethical and public policy issues. These will touch on accounting and financial irregularities, corporate socialization and corruption, government
regulation, the responsibilities of multinational businesses, product quality and liability and other questions currently under debate. Students will have
the opportunity to speak with someone convicted of a white-collar crime.

International Business Environment


Introduces potential managers in both domestic and multinational firms to the major international environment influences on their future decisions,
and to basic analytical tools such as foreign-market entry strategies, foreign investment patterns and theories, country risk assessment, hedging of
foreign exchange risk and analysis of international alliances. The class is based on concepts and tools that every manager needs to know in today’s
globally competitive environment.

Diverse Consumers: Ethnicity, Religion, Social Class and Gender


Taught in the spring 2007 semester and cosponsored by the honors college in the college of arts and sciences and Rutgers Business School. The
course was the first of its kind at Rutgers as well as one of the only such courses in the United States. The purpose of the course is to incorporate the
study of diversity into that of consumer behavior, with particular concentration on diverse population subgroups based on ethnicity (African-American,
Asian-American, Hispanics), religion (Catholics, Jews, Muslims), social class (lower, upper, middle), gender (women, gays and lesbians), and age
(mature Americans).

Please describe any faculty and/or student research projects that focus on diversity, multiculturalism and minority issues.
Professor Nancy DiTomaso is an expert in diversity in organizations, the labor force, organizational culture; women, minorities and cross-cultural
management. Her publications include:

DiTomaso, N., Post, C. and Parks-Yancy, R. Forthcoming. “Workforce Diversity and Inequality: Power, Status, and Numbers.” Annual
Review of Sociology (expected publication 2007).

DiTomaso, N. and Post, C. Forthcoming. “Diversity.” International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.

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Parks-Yancy, R., DiTomaso, N. and Post, C. 2006. “The Social Capital Resources of Gender and Class Groups.” Sociological Spectrum, 26
(1, January-March): 85 to 113.

Parks-Yancy, R., DiTomaso, N. and Post, C. 2005. “Social Capital Resources and Social Programs: Advancement Mechanisms for
Disadvantaged Groups.” Michigan Sociological Review, 19: 115 to 137.

DiTomaso, N. and Post, C. (Eds.). 2004. Diversity in the Workforce. Vol. 14, Research in the Sociology of Work, Kidlington, Oxon, U.K.:
Elsevier. Two chapters in volume, including:

Post, C. and DiTomaso, N. “Workforce Diversity: Why, When and How.”

DiTomaso, N., Parks-Yancy, R. and Post, C. 2003. “White views of civil rights: Color blindness and equal opportunity.” Pp. 189 to 198 in
Woody Doane & Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds., Whiteout: The Continuing Significance of Racism. N.Y.: Routledge.

D. Randall Smith, DiTomaso, N., Farris, G.F. and Cordero, R. 2001. “Favoritism, bias and error in performance ratings of scientists and
engineers: The effects of power, status, and numbers.” Sex Roles, 45 (September, 4/5): 337 to 358.

DiTomaso, N. and Smith, S.A. 1996. “Race and ethnic minorities and white women in management: Changes and challenges.” Pp. 87 to
110 in Joyce Tang and Earl Smith (Eds.), Women and Minorities in American Professions. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

DiTomaso, N., Cordero, R. and George F. Farris. 1995. “Effects of group diversity on perceptions of group and self among scientists and
engineers.” Pp. 99 to 119 in M.N. Ruderman, M.W. Hughes-James and S.E. Jackson (Eds.), Diversity and Work Teams: Selected Research.
Greensboro, N.C.: APA and Center for Creative Leadership.

DiTomaso, N., George F. Farris and Cordero, R. 1994. “Degrees and diversity at work.” IEEE Spectrum, 3(4), April: 38 to 42.

Professor Chao C. Chen specializes in cross-cultural management, China, reward allocation, leadership and managing diversity. His publications
include:

Choi, J. and Chen, C.C. “Gender differences in perceived work demands, family demands and life stress among married Chinese
employees.” Management and Organization Review, 2:2 209 to 229, 2006.

Pothukuchi, V., Damonpour, F., Choi, J., Chen, C.C. and Park, S.H. “National and organizational culture differences and international joint
venture performance.” Journal of International Business Studies, 33 (2): 243 to 265, 2002.

Chen, C.C., Peng, M.W. and Saparito P. “Individualism, collectivism and opportunism: A cultural perspective on transaction cost economics.”
Journal of Management, 28 (4): 567 to 583, 2002.

Chen, C. C. and Hooijberg. R. 2002. “Ambiguity intolerance and support for valuing diversity interventions.” Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 30, 11, 2392 to 2408, 2000.

Chen, C.C., DiTomaso, N. and Farris, G. “Attitudes toward organizational change: Effects of self-interest, organizational values and ethnicity.”
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 46 (4), 399 to 406, 1999.

Earley, P.C., Gibson, C.B. and Chen, C.C. “How did I do versus how did we do? Cultural contrasts of performance feedback utilization and
self-efficacy.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30(5): 594 to 619, 1999.

Chen, C.C., Ford, C. and Farris, G. “Do rewards benefit the organization? The effects of reward types and demographic diversity in R&D
organizations.” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 46 (1): 47 to 55, 1999.

Chen, C.C., Chen, X.P. and Meindl, J.R. “How can cooperation be fostered? The cultural effects of individualism and collectivism.” Academy
of Management Review, 23 (2), 285 to 304, 1998.

Chen, C.C., Meindl, J.R. and Hui, H. “Deciding on equity or parity: A test of situational, cultural and individual factors.” Journal of
Organizational Behavior, 19, 115 to 129, 1998.

Chen, C.C., Yu, K.C. and Miner, J.B. “Motivation to manage: A study of women in Chinese state-owned enterprises.” Journal of Applied
Behavioral Science, 33 (2), 160 to 173, 1997.

Chen, C.C. and Van Velsor, E. “New directions for research and practice in diversity leadership.” Leadership Quarterly, 7 (2), 285 to 302,
1996.

Chen, C.C. and DiTomaso, N. “Performance appraisal and demographic diversity: Issues regarding appraisal, appraisers, and appraising.”
In Kossek E.E. & Lobel, S. (Eds.) Human Resources Strategies for Managing Diversity, 137 to 163. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.

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Chen, C.C. and Hooijberg, R. “Ambiguity intolerance and valuing diversity in the workplace.” Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of
Management, 1996: 244 to 247.

Dr. dt ogilvie’s research interests include executive leadership strategies of multicultural women executives; women in the executive suite; strategic
decision making and the use of creativity to enhance business and battlefield decision making and applying complexity theory to strategy and creativity;
assessing environmental dimensions; and effective communication for women in business.

Her 1990 paper in Business Perspectives, “Should Your Global Strategy Include China?” (with James Fitzsimmons), was one of the most requested
papers on the Business Forum on Delphi database. She has written a number of textbook case studies published by Prentice-Hall. Her Leadership
Quarterly article with Pat Parker was recently reprinted in the “Simmons Reader,” Robin J. Ely, Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Maureen A. Scully and The Center
for Gender and Organizations, Simmons School of Management (Eds.) Reader in Gender, Work, and Organizations (Blackwell Publishing, 2003). Dr.
ogilvie’s other published work includes:

Lucas, L.M. and ogilvie, d. 2006. “Things Are Not Always What They Seem: How Reputation, Culture, and Incentives Influence Knowledge
Transfer.” The Learning Organization: An International Journal, 13(1).

Parker, P.S. and ogilvie, d. 1996. “Gender, culture, and leadership: Toward a culturally distinct model of African-American women
executives’ leadership strategies.” Leadership Quarterly, 7: 189 to 214.

ogilvie, d. 1999. “African-American Women: Outsiders within Research on Leadership and Power Strategies.” In M. DeKoven (Ed.) Power,
Practice, Agency: Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar 1997-1998. Institute for Research on Women (Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey) New Brunswick, NJ: 37 to 40.

ogilvie, d. and Lucas, L.M. “African-American Women Executives’ Power Strategies: The Play for Power by Powerless People.” In Theodore
Peridis (Ed.) Managing in the Global Economy VIII: Transformation and Integration. Proceedings of the 8th International Eastern Academy
of Management Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June 20 to 24, 1999: 1 to 34.

Smith, R.A. and ogilvie, d. “The Role of Family Status in Explaining the Black-White Gap in Access to Supervisory Authority Structures Among
Women.” Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 12th International Meeting on Socio-Economics, London School
of Economics, London, U.K., July 7 to 10, 2000.

ogilvie, d., et. al. Symposium for the Conflict Management division, Racio-ethnic Relations and the Forbidden Triad: Challenging Conceptions
about Relationships among Minority Groups, the 1999 Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, IL, August 1999.

Lucas, L.M. and ogilvie, d. The Impact of Culture on Organizational Learning. Presented at the 1998 13th Annual Texas Conference on
Organizations, “Central Dilemma in Studying Organizations,” Austin, Texas, April 17 to 19, 1998.

ogilvie, d. Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Classroom. Symposium presentation for the “Teaching and Learning in a Culturally
Diverse Environment” symposium at the International Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, University of Cape Town, Cape Town,
Republic of South Africa, December 15 to 18, 1997.

ogilvie, d. Diversity in the Strategy Classroom. Panel presentation at the 57th Annual Academy of Management Meeting session on “Lessons
Learned: The Experience of Teaching Diversity in the Classroom” sponsored by the Management Education and Women in Management
Divisions, Boston, Mass., August 8 to 13, 1997.

ogilvie, d. Research on African-American Women Executives. Presented at the 57th Annual Academy of Management Meeting “Research
Roundtable: Outsiders Looking in—Our Research, Ourselves” sponsored by the Women in Management Division, Boston, Mass., August 8
to 13, 1997.

ogilvie, d. and Jones, K. African-American Women Executives’ Communications Strategies: Using the Power of the Word to Break Through
Concrete Ceilings. Presented by dt ogilvie at the 18th Annual National Black MBA Association, Inc. National Conference, New Orleans, La.,
September 25 to 29, 1996.

ogilvie, d. African-American Women: Outsiders within Research on Leadership Strategies. Symposium paper for the “Working and Living
as Outsiders Within: Our Research and Our Careers” symposium of the Women in Management and Careers Divisions. Presented at the
Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1996.

Please describe any symposiums or special lectures that focus on diversity and minority issues organized and/or sponsored by your school.
Symposium: Women in the Era of Globalization
During Women’s History month, Douglass Residential College hosted a biannual symposium on the subject of Women in the Era of Globalization held
in conjunction with the 2008 L’Hommedieu Lecture. The symposium, Women in Business Making a Difference through Leadership, focused on current
issues and pressures facing women in a changing business world.

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The daylong symposium leading up to the L’Hommedieu Lecture illustrated the significance of women in leadership roles in the current global
environment. The symposium was hosted by Douglass Residential College, the vice president for undergraduate education and the associate alumnae
of Douglass College.

Symposium: Fiscal Fitness for Women


Hosted by Rutgers’ Women and Philanthropy, Fiscal Fitness for Women is dedicated to empowering women to make financial and philanthropic
decisions and to help them make an impact at Rutgers and in their community.

ORGANIZATIONS AND STUDENT LIFE


Please provide information on your school diversity student and alumni organizations.
Black and Hispanic MBA Association
business.rutgers.edu/default.aspx?id=1042
The Black and Hispanic MBA Association of Rutgers Business School assists Hispanic and Black MBA students to succeed professionally and
academically. We offer business and social programs for all RBS students, regardless of background, interested in learning about Hispanic and Black
cultures. Our aim is to provide Hispanic and African-American students with a support network while in school, assist members in finding professional
opportunities and effectively prepare students for success and leadership in the business world.

Rutgers Women in Business (RWiB)


wib.rutgers.edu
Rutgers Women in Business is a club that encourages and supports the professional and personal development of the female MBA candidates through
networking and socializing opportunities with fellow Rutgers students, alumni, faculty, administrators and women in the outside business community.

Women and Philanthropy


support.rutgers.edu/waystogive/womenandphilanthropy
Women and Philanthropy is dedicated to empowering today’s women to make a positive impact at Rutgers and in their communities. Women and
Philanthropy inspires, encourages and educates women towards their full potential as supporters and as volunteer leaders on behalf of Rutgers
University and its constituent communities.

Through this mission, it seeks to:

• Increase the representation of women throughout the Rutgers community as donors and as leaders
• Broaden the university’s base of financial support by inspiring women to give to Rutgers
• Engage women philanthropists in the life of the university through programmed activities
• Mentor the next generation of women philanthropists
• Prepare women to assume leadership roles as Rutgers volunteers
• Support programs at Rutgers that reflect the varied interests of women

Please provide information on any institutes and/or related programs that focus on diversity.
The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED)
The center features The Profeta Urban Investment Foundation (“The Fund”), which is a vehicle for small businesses owned and operated by minority
entrepreneurs to access the capital they need to grow and expand their operations in Newark, New Jersey. The fund is designed to link small- and
medium-sized businesses with new financial resources. Seed capital will be supplemented by the intellectual capital of Rutgers Business School. As
an entirely unique offering, businesses not only receive venture capital funding but also assistance by local government and MBA faculty and students
who are assigned as consultants to guide and advise entrepreneurs throughout the funding process.

Office of social justice education and LGBT communities (SJE)


www.rci.rutgers.edu/~divcoaff
The office of social justice education and LGBT communities, formerly called the office of diverse community affairs and LGBT concerns, continues to
provide educational, social and leadership development programs and activities for GLBT students, allies and staff/faculty liaisons for GLBT students.
SJE also continues to coordinate the monitoring of incidents of bias and hate through the bias prevention education committee.

SJE also fosters all students’ engagement with and understanding of the complex issues of power, privilege and prejudice. SJE promotes students’
exploration of modes of advocacy and activism in order to change the structures that exclude and oppress groups and individuals. SJE creates
opportunities, like the Social Justice Institute, primarily for undergraduates to make connections between their leadership development and issues,
including but not limited to race, gender, sexuality and economic status.

The mission and vision of SJE involves teaching all students, including but not limited to members of historically underrepresented communities, the
histories and legacies of social and institutional change. SJE accomplishes its goals through its cocurricular projects, workshops and other collaborative
programs with academic departments, administrative units and student organizations.

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Please describe any off-campus resources, activities, programs and/or organizations that may be of interest to minority or female students.
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center (CSV)
www.csvcenter.com
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center is a nonprofit organization focused on the cultivation, presentation and preservation of Puerto
Rican and Latino cultures. According to its website, CSV is “a vibrant downtown arts center for contemporary arts and a haven for art-related
community services; an ensemble of four theaters, studio space program for 53 artists and exhibition and performance spaces; a sustainable,
innovative and diverse community of theater artists, puppeteers, musicians, dancers and visual and media artists; a center for the development and
promotion of Latino theater; a forum for artists and performers to engage with the public and discuss their work; a community center providing unique
learning opportunities for elementary, middle and high school students; and a gallery/café venue that both nurtures and exhibits art, music, dance,
film/video and poetry.” The center is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO)


www.njawbo.org
According to its website, the mission of NJAWBO is “to address the challenges unique to women business owners; to provide the tools necessary for
business success through programs and resources that accelerate growth and profitability of seasoned women-owned businesses; to support aspiring
women entrepreneurs; to serve as their voice to the legislature; and to encourage leadership in the business community.” The state headquarters for
the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners is located in West Windsor and the Women’s Business Center is located in Chatham.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Please describe any diversity recruiting events for employers recruiting minority and/or female students at or near your school.
The HBMBA corporate relations team is here to facilitate your diversity recruiting needs. It also maintains a resume book for its membership.

Rutgers Women in Business organizes networking and career information events, such as Lunch-and-Learn: Women Leaders, 21st Century Principles
of Success.

STRATEGIC PLAN AND LEADERSHIP


Please provide your school’s diversity mission statement.
Business, science and technology: The Rutgers advantage
Rutgers Business School is the only business school offering cutting edge programs that deliver the business, science and technology credentials
demanded by global corporations. Faculty with an international reputation for the high quality of their teaching and research teach a student body that
has been ranked No. 1 in diversity for 12 consecutive years. This business, science and technology focus is made possible through multidisciplinary
programming that can only be found at Rutgers University, and is strengthened by strong partnerships with global businesses allowing a curriculum
that emphasizes experiential learning. This provides students with the advantage of innovative, industry-relevant knowledge and real-world
international experiences.

Ranked No. 1 in diversity, again: In 2008, U.S. News ranked Rutgers’ Newark campus No. 1 in diversity, for the 11th straight year. Successful
companies recognize diversity as a key ingredient to innovation and repeatedly leverage our wealth of diversity through research projects and other
forms of collaboration with our academic research centers, MBA Team Consulting, internships and hiring RBS graduates.

Corporate partnerships: Geographically situated in an epicenter of global business, RBS has high access to the top executives leading the world’s
largest corporations. Our partnerships with these companies are central to the RBS experience and offer our students distinct career advantages,
evidenced by the success of our alumni.

Multidisciplinary programs: With more than 270 Rutgers University degree programs to partner with, RBS is uniquely capable of delivering cutting
edge, multidisciplinary curricula that combine the mix of business and science required by today’s leading corporations.

Global experiences: Students at Rutgers Business School get multiple real-world experiences through:

• Corporate internships
• MBA Team Consulting, a required capstone course
• Case study competitions
• Industry-sponsored student clubs
• Executive mentoring
• Involvement with RBS boards of advisers
• Presentations by distinguished guest speakers
• International study abroad programs

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DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Please describe the demographics of your most recent entering class.
Percentage of female students: 35 percent

Percentage of minority students: 11 percent

Average age of students: 27

Number of countries represented: 38

Please describe the selectivity of your school for the most recent application cycle.
Number of matriculants: 86

Please describe the academic and employment backgrounds of your most recent entering class.
Average years of pre-MBA work experience: 4.3

Please provide student employment information for the most recent graduating class.
Full-time MBA class of 2008

Average starting salary: $83,092

Average bonus: $12,245

Percentage of students entering different industries:

Consulting: 4 percent
Consumer products: 8 percent
Financial services: 33 percent
Manufacturing: 47 percent
Nonprofit: 4 percent
Petroleum/energy: 4 percent

Percentage of students working in different functions:

Finance: 39 percent
Marketing: 32 percent
Operations: 29 percent

Major recruiting companies:

Becton, Dickinson and Company


Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cadbury Adams USA LLC
Cushman & Wakefield
Deloitte
The Hertz Corporation
Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
IDT Corporation
IBM
Johnson & Johnson
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
Merck
New Jersey Department of the Treasury
Novartis
Organon Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.
Pfizer
Schindler Management Ltd.
Siemens AG
Tyco International, Ltd.
Verizon Wireless

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