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Simmons College, School of Management: A leading center for innovative teaching, research and discourse on women, leadership and management, the School of Management (SOM) offers a demanding management education to women MBA and undergraduate students. SOM is also a leading-edge provider of executive education, consulting services, and applied research to senior management in business, government, and the nonprofit sector. The School of Management has an entrepreneurial, collaborative learning environment for women who want to accomplish something meaningful for their organizations, communities, and themselves. SOM is for women of purpose who intend to use their leadership skills to make a lasting difference in the world.
The mission of the Simmons School of Management is to educate women for power and principled leadership. We are committed to the advancement of knowledge and practice in management through excellence in education and research. Our academic programs offer rigorous, applied, management education designed for women. SOM focuses on leadership, and our programs integrate the strategic, functional, and behavioral aspects of management. SOM students gain the knowledge, analytical skills, and confidence that they need to manage successfully in dynamic and global environments. It is invested in students’ success and supports them as they launch, advance, and change their careers.
Family Owned Business Institute, Grand Valley State University: Family Owned Business Institute has a mission to promote, preserve, influence, and impact family businesses through quality academic research, curriculum, and information services. The creation of the Family Owned Business Institute at Grand Valley State University is borne out of the collective belief that family businesses ( large and small ) are the cornerstone of prosperity and a vital ingredient in quality of life. Our national and regional history has demonstrated that it is in the best interest of communities to foster the creation, growth, and continuation of family owned businesses because they and their members:
* Are leaders in job creation, innovation, and in providing stable employment opportunities with superior wages and benefits for their employees.
* Strategically think and act over the long term (generational) with a greater willingness to sacrifice short-term profitability, oftentimes resulting in greater community investment and stability.
*Act in a responsible, ethical manner with customers, employees, and the community at large in part due to the association of family values and reputation with the business unit.
* Are environmentally and socially responsible stewards of the resources they control and influence.
* Are specialists in building, maintaining, and managing a core culture of values most often associated with hard work, sacrifice, service, integrity, quality, loyalty, trust, respect, and commitment.
* Tend to be community leaders in philanthropic activities and are generally active volunteers and financial supporters of their communities.
Despite their tremendous contributions, family businesses face a unique set of challenges that can limit their impact and even threaten their very survival. By providing support through research, curriculum, and knowledge management, the Family Owned Business Institute serves to develop, retain, and expand the influence of family businesses within our communities.
C.AS.E. Worldwide Group:C.AS.E. Worldwide Group has a mission to offer research, training, information, assessment, advisory, and advocacy services for culturally sensitive leadership approaches amongst the family businesses. The guiding values of the Group include using cutting-edge research techniques from management and sister disciplines, using comparative methodology, and constructing scientific assessment systems, to educate practitioners and future scholars about the relevance and the modalities of the sustainable organizational approaches. Dr. Joseph Horak (www.drhorak.com), a practicing psychologist, is the President of the Group. Dr. Thomas Schwarz (www.gvsu.edu/fobi).and Dr. Vipin Gupta (www.vipingupta.net) are its core members.
C.A.S.E. stands for Culturally-sensitive Assessment System and
Education. The primary goal of the C.A.S.E. Worldwide Group is three-fold:
1) To assess the nature of family involvement in different cultures of the world;
2) To develop a system for assessing culturally sensitive family involvement
in family businesses; and
3) To present findings relevant to the education of family business leaders in different culture-specific ways for structuring, managing, and advancing
the family involvement.
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