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QUARTERLY SPONSORSHIP MEETING

Forté Foundation

March 6, 2007

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Agenda

• New Sponsors

• Event Calendar review

• Corporate Best Practices

• Annual Conference—June 2007

• Dates for 2007 Forums & Career Labs

• Undergrad activities

Feb Career Lab results Power Tools for undergraduates

• Fellows update

• Sponsorship Annual Review Conversations

• Sponsor Census Reminder

• Marketing update

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New Sponsors

• Queens UniversityShannon Goodspeed

• General MillsKris Nebel (welcome back, Kris!)

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Forté Sponsor Companies

Abbott

Bank of America

Boston Consulting Group

The Capital Group Companies

Chevron

Citigroup

Credit Suisse

Dell, Inc.

Deloitte

Deutsche Bank

Eli Lilly & Company

Ernst & Young

Fidelity Investments

General Mills

GE Commercial Finance

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

IBM

John Deere

Kraft Foods, Inc.

Lehman Brothers

McKinsey & Company

Merrill Lynch

MetLife

The Moody’s Foundation

Morgan Stanley

PepsiCo

Wachovia Securities

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Forté Sponsor Schools

Babson (F. W. Olin)

Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

Chicago

Columbia

Cornell (Johnson)

Dartmouth (Tuck)

Duke (Fuqua)

Emory (Goizueta)

Georgetown

Harvard

HEC-Paris

Indiana University (Kelley)

INSEAD

London Business School

Michigan (Ross)

Minnesota (Carlson)

MIT (MIT Sloan)

New York (Stern)

North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)

Northwestern (Kellogg)

Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Queens University

Texas (McCombs)

USC (Marshall)

Virginia (Darden)

Wake Forest (Babcock)

Washington University (Olin)

Yale

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2007 Calendar of Events

See Calendar Document

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Corporate Best Practices Summit

The New Workscape: From Corporate Ladder to Corporate Lattice Tuesday, May 1, 2007 in New York at Deloitte

Attendees-Executives from our corporate sponsors, and the Career Services Directors from our school sponsors.

Keynote-Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce (Cathy Benko, National Managing Director for Deloitte’s Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women, Deloitte.)

Sessions-The Move Toward Institutionalizing Career CustomizationWhere are the Women?: The Pipeline to the TopReturning to Work: What’s Being Done to Smooth the Transition

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2007 Annual Conference & Meeting

SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20

Board Meeting

9am-5pm

Audience: Board Members

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2007 Annual Conference & Meeting

THURSDAY, JUNE 21

Sponsorship Meeting

9:00am-5:00pm

Audience: Company & School Sponsorship

Small Group Dinners

Evening

Audience: MBA Fellows, Company & School Sponsorship

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Fellow & Intern Symposium

FRIDAY, JUNE 22Fellow Workshops9:00-11:15am

Dialogue With Leadership Luncheon11:30am-1:15pmAudience: MBA Women, Company & School Sponsorship

Career Fair2:30-6:00pmAudience: MBA Women & Company Sponsorship

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Fellow & Intern Symposium

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

Transitions & Transformations: Traveling the Open Road of Your Career

Breakfast– Interactive Keynote: 9:30-10:30 AM

Session 1: 10:40-11:55 AM

Fellow Town Hall & Intern Lunch: 12:05-1:20 PM

Session 2: 1:30-2:40 PM

Session 3: 2:50-4:00 PM

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Fellow Symposium

MBA FELLOW SESSIONS -- SPEAKERS NEEDED

The Two-Seater Career:  Power Couples

Speakers: 1-2 Companies & 1-2 School Alumnae (w/ spouse)

Mapping Your On and Off-Ramps

Speakers: 2 Companies , 1 School Alumna + Moderator

Charting Your Professional Future:  How to Position Yourself for Post-MBA Success

Speakers: 2 Companies , 1 School Alumna + Moderator

Your Passport to Personal Financial Success

Speakers: 1 Company

Navigating your Life:  Strategic Decision Making

Speakers: 1 Company, School Professor or Consultant

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Fellow Symposium

MBA FELLOW SESSIONS -- SPEAKERS NEEDED, cont.

From Colleague to Ally:  How to transform your professional relationships into meaningful networks

Speakers: 1 Company or Consultant

The Green Mile: Traveling the Corporate Path to Socially Responsible Business

Speakers: 1-2 Companies, 1-2 School Alumnae + Moderator

3RD PARTY SPEAKERS – IDEAS WELCOME

Confidence in Speaking / Presentation Skills

Entrepreneurship:  Drawing Your Own Map

Beth Polish confirmed.

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Intern Symposium

INTERN SESSIONS -- SPEAKERS NEEDED

The MBA Value Proposition

Speakers: 2 Schools, GMAC Rep, Fellow + Company Moderator

Navigating the Waters of Power & Politics

Speakers: 3 Companies + Moderator

Your Passport to Personal Financial Success

Speakers: 1 Company

Diversity in Business

Speakers: 1-2 Companies, 1-2 School Alumnae + Moderator

The Green Mile: Traveling the Corporate Path to Socially Responsible Business

Speakers: 1-2 Companies, 1-2 School Alumnae + Moderator

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Intern Symposium

INTERN SESSIONS -- SPEAKERS NEEDED, cont.

Strategic Alliances: Finding Your Champion at Work - Networking

Speakers: 1 Company or School Professor

Negotiations Workshop

Speakers: 1 Company, School Professor or Consultant

Pursing Multiples Paths to Leadership

Speakers: Company + School or GMAC Moderator

3RD PARTY SPEAKERS – IDEAS WELCOME

Forget Balance: It’s About Choices

Career Search Secrets (2x) – Lindsey Pollak confirmed.

Leveraging Female Success Factors

Confidence in Speaking and Presentation Skills (2-3x)

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2007 Forums

TENTATIVE SCHEDULEWeek 1

September 17 – 20

Chicago, DC, NYC, Boston

Week 2

September 24 – 27

Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Week 3

October 1 -- NYC 2

October 4 -- London

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College Outreach

• Webinar – Resume Tips

Monday, January 8 - Caitlin McLaughlin, Managing Director, Citigroup

• Upcoming Webinars – Industry Intros

Tuesday, April 10 – Financial Services

Thursday, April 12 – Consulting

Monday, April 16 – Healthcare

Wednesday, April 18 – Consumer Packaged Goods

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2007-2008 Career Labs

TENTATIVE SCHEDULENovember 2007

Boston, NYC, Chicago, (Minneapolis, Ithaca)

February 2008

Raleigh/Durham, Atlanta, DC, Philadelphia

**Career Lab Template – Available September 2007**

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Career Lab 2007

Location Registration* Attendance %

UPenn Wharton/Phila.

152 55 36%

UNC/Chapel Hill 102 54 53%

USC, Los Angeles

180 109 61%

UT, Austin 130 82 63%

* February Lab registrant rosters and demographicdata is available on the sponsor website.

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Power Tools for Undergraduates

New! Power Tools now available for undergraduate women as well as women MBA students and MBA alumna.

Online job and internship database, directory and resume bank for undergraduate women.

Announcement going out to companies and undergraduates this week.

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Fellows Update

• Corporate Trek – January 11-12, 2007

• Webinar – February 7, 2007

Negotiations: How to ask for what you want

MetLife, Deutsche Bank & GE Commercial Finance

• Upcoming Webinars – Dates tbdMaximizing the first weeks on the job (2007 & 2008)

Resume prep (2009)

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Fellows Update

• 2009 Fellows

Send to Sara by May, if possible

Encourage the Fellow Associates option

• 2008 Fellows

Intern Survey

• 2007 Fellows

Exit Survey

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Sponsorship Annual Reviews

• Goals

2006-2007 Review & Feedback

2007-2008 Sponsorship Objectives

Maximizing Forté investment and partnership

• Scheduling

Winter & Spring 2007

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Forté Sponsor Census (REMINDER)

PAST DUE!

19/27 Corporate Census Complete

22/27 School Census Complete

MarketingNovember 2006 – February 2007

THE 2007 FORTÉ QUARTERLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING

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Website and Logo Redesign

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Website and Logo Redesign

Website Timetable:

• Implementation and review: 12/1 – 1/31

• Phase 1 complete, soft launch: 2/2

• Refine and revise: 2/5 – 2/23

• Communicate launch to sponsors: 2/26

• Communicate launch to database: 3/5

• Follow-up survey: June (est.)

Logo Timetable:

• Rollout: January – ongoing

• Communication plan: in tandem with website announcement

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PINK Magazine

• Top 15 Women Game Changers issue: Feb/March 4 women with Forté school ties

• 8-page insert Includes full page color Forté ad

• Webinar Series:

• March 6, 6-7 PM: Lindsey Ueberroth, Preferred Boutique Hotels

• March 14, 1-2 PM: Deborah Brooks, Michael J. Fox Foundation and Dartmouth/Tuck alum

• PR Press release: online pickup on 12+ sites HR Magazine interview with Elissa Mention in Gina Boswell press release Additional opportunities pending

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Online/Interactive

Forté Forum podcast series: The MBA Value

Proposition• 3 episode series: December – February

• Total Downloads (through end of January): Episode 1: 1013 Episode 2: 597 (Episode 3 TBD)

Career Lab podcasts: Exploring Business

Careers • 3 episodes, March – May

• Sponsored by GMAC

Facebook banner advertising (2)• Career Lab promotion

• pre-MBA message

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Database Marketing – Feb stats

•As of February, working women post undergrad make up slightly more than ½ of the database Working women, post grad

school, are the second largest segment

• Membership was fairly flat over the holidays, but growth picked up in February Driven by college students +27% presumably Career Lab, Resume

Workshop registrants

15%

9%

17%

1%

5%

53%

HS/ College

MBA/ Gradstudent

working postundergrad

working postgrad school

stay at homemom

Other

Nov Dec % Chg

Jan % Chg

Feb % Chg

16325 16979 +4% 17080 +1% 17683 +3.5%

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Next Quarterly Webex Meeting

Tuesday, June 5th

11:30am Eastern

10:30am Central

8:30am Pacific