It’s the first full week of March and it’s time once again to check in on the news from campus, as written in the student newspapers.
As reported in the Stern Opportunity, a busy conference season is underway at NYU. The 15th Annual Stern Women in Business Conference took place in early February, drawing a record 375 participants. The theme was “Finding Authenticity: The Next Challenge for Women in Business,” and keynote speakers included Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks and President of Disney-ABC Television Group and Eileen Murray, Managing Director and Head of Global Technology and Operations at Morgan Stanley. The conference also served as a 35th anniversary celebration for Stern Women in Business, which marked the occasion with a special dinner for students and alumnae. The 2007 MBA Media and Entertainment Conference was also a success, drawing more than 600 attendees from over 50 business schools around the country. The conference, which was founded by students from Columbia Business School, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, MIT Sloan, Wharton, and NYU Stern, brings together media, entertainment and sports business leaders.
Harvard Business School is also gearing up for conferences, and the recent Harbus features a preview of Sunday’s Social Enterprise Conference. The conference is organized around the theme “engage” and is meant to prompt participants to develop strategies for creating positive social change through enterprise. Keynote speakers include Cheryl Dorsey, President of the social venture fund Echoing Green, as well as Daniel Doctoroff, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. Since this edition of the Harbus coincides with Harvard’s Admit Weekend for R1 admits, there are several articles written for the benefit of visiting admits. Readers can check out the memo to admitted students from the Harbus editor, a humor piece on 50 things the writer wishes he’d known when he applied, and a student profile of one of Harvard’s first years.
Conference season is in full swing at Columbia as well, and the front page of the most recent Columbia Bottom Line highlights the 14th Annual Columbia Women in Business Conference. The event, which sold out on the first day of ticket sales, drew more than 600 attendees and featured an “impressive” keynote address by Martha Stewart. There’s more big news on page 5 of the issue, with a re-cap of the Social Enterprise Program’s 18th annual gala reception and an article introducing some exciting new changes to Columbia’s logo, typeface, J-term organization, and faculty positions, among other news. More detailed information on CBS’s rebranding strategy can be found in a follow-up article on page 10.
That’s the campus news for this week! Stay tuned to this space in the coming weeks for more on the events and issues being talked about by MBA student papers.
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