Content Questions & Answers:
Which industries will be featured?
Each of our Broad Advantage sessions in 2008 will differ in content and focus. Our Finance Boot Camp in August will focus on preparing attendees for careers in finance and consulting. Our 3-Day Career Immersion in Sydney, Australia will be a crash course in the language of business and will provide an overview of a wide range of industries.
Which graduate programs will be represented?
At the 2007 Broad Advantage sessions, eleven of the leading business schools took part in the Broad Advantage Career Fairs, including Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wharton Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Columbia Business School.
What speakers were involved this year (summer 2007)?
- Jim Cramer, Host, CNBC’s “Mad Money”
- Barbara Byrne, Vice Chairman, Lehman Brothers
- Eileen Naughton, Director of Media Platforms, Google Inc.
- Sarah Orsay, CEO, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
- Liz Lange, Founder, Liz Lange Maternity
- Susan Schulz, Editor-in-Chief, CosmoGIRL!
- Dave Warren, Co-Founder, Fly Communications
- Milbry Polk, Explorer and Co-Founder, Wings Worldquest, Inc.
- Reed Abelson, Reporter, The New York Times
- Andrea Miller, Founder and CEO, Tango Magazine
- Sharon Kedar and Manisha Thakor, Co-Authors, On Your Own Two Feet
- Hannah Seligson, Author, New Girl on the Job: Advice from the Trenches
- Lindsey Pollack, Author, Getting From College to Career
- Stewart D. Friedman, Practice Professor of Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Srikumar Rao, Adjunct Professor, London School of Business
What speakers were involved last year (summer 2006)?
To see clips of last years speakers please visit the video gallery. Last years line up included:
- Georgia Lee (Co-founder, Blanc de Chine Entertainment; wrote and directed award-winning film, Red Doors)
- Judith Aidoo (Chief Executive, Caswell Capital Partners and Caswell Communications)
- Keith Ferrazzi (CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight; author, Never Eat Alone)
- Jill DiLosa (Investor, retired at age 27; first woman to win Tulane University’s Rising Tide award)
- Joanna Opot (Director of Programs, StartingBloc Institute)
- Andrea Kimmel (Assistant Director of Admissions, Harvard Business School)
- Dr. Srikumar Rao (Professor of Marketing at Long Island University, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, author of Are You Ready to Succeed?)
and many others….
