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Rotman School hosts Women in Management MBA open house

November 29, 2010

TORONTO, ON – From the class­room to the board­room, the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to sup­ports women in their efforts to advance and be suc­cess­ful in their careers. On Decem­ber 2, the school will be host­ing the annu­al Rot­man Women in Man­age­ment Open House which allows prospec­tive female can­di­dates for the Rot­man MBA pro­grams to explore the ben­e­fits of pur­su­ing the degree from many per­spec­tives.

The open house allows par­tic­i­pants to gain insight into every aspect of the MBA cycle, from the admis­sion process, the pro­gram, career oppor­tu­ni­ties and the alum­ni net­work.

The evening kicks off at 5:30 pm with a pan­el dis­cus­sion mod­er­at­ed by Beat­rix Dart, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Rot­man Ini­tia­tive for Women in Busi­ness and Asso­ciate Dean, Exec­u­tive Degree Pro­grams. Oth­er pan­elists include:

•         Kathy But­ler (Full-Time MBA 1996), Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Invest­ment Bank­ing (Van­cou­ver), CIBC World Mar­kets Inc.;

•         Jane van Alphen (Evening MBA 2003), Vice Pres­i­dent, Oper­a­tions, Ontario Insti­tute for Can­cer Research;

•         Juli­eta Pine­da (Exec­u­tive MBA 2007), Direc­tor, McDonald’s in Wal­mart; and,

•         Shilpa Mand­han (Full-Time MBA 2011).

The proud spon­sor of the evening is  CIBC.

What? Rot­man Women in Man­age­ment Open House

When? Thurs­day, Decem­ber 2, 2010

5:00 – 5:30 pm: Reg­is­tra­tion

5:30 – 6:45 pm: Wel­come and pan­el dis­cus­sion

6:45 – 8:00 pm: Cock­tails and net­work­ing

Where? Fleck Atri­um

Rot­man School of Man­age­ment

105 St. George Street

Toron­to

Dress code? Busi­ness Casu­al

To Reg­is­ter: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/wimOpenhouse/

Info: mba@rotman.utoronto.ca / 416–978-3499.

The Rot­man MBA is avail­able in five for­mats: the full-time Two-Year MBA; the part-time Three-Year Morn­ing MBA and Three-Year Evening MBA; a One-Year Exec­u­tive MBA, designed for senior man­agers; and the Omni­um Glob­al Exec­u­tive MBA, which is deliv­ered in eight key cen­tres of inter­na­tion­al busi­ness in six coun­tries. The school also offers a Mas­ter of Finance, which trains tomorrow’s glob­al finance lead­ers and a world-class doc­tor­al pro­gram, the Rot­man PhD.

In addi­tion, the Rot­man School offers com­bined MBA degrees with the Fac­ul­ty of Law (JD/MBA) and the Fac­ul­ty of Applied Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing (Skoll BASc/MBA); and Col­lab­o­ra­tive Pro­grams in Asia-Pacif­ic Stud­ies and Envi­ron­men­tal Stud­ies.  Pro­gram details are online at http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/degree.htm

The Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is redesign­ing busi­ness edu­ca­tion for the 21st cen­tu­ry with a cur­ricu­lum based on Inte­gra­tive Think­ing. Locat­ed in the world’s most diverse city, the Rot­man School fos­ters a new way to think that enables the design of cre­ative busi­ness solu­tions.  The School is cur­rent­ly rais­ing $200 mil­lion to ensure Cana­da has the world-class busi­ness school it deserves. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Ken McGuf­fin
Man­ag­er
Media Rela­tions
Rot­man School of Man­age­ment
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
416.946.3818
mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca
Fol­low Rot­man on Twit­ter: @rotmanschool