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About the Program:

Merrill Lynch and Columbia Business School Executive Education are pleased to partner together to introduce Greater Returns: two powerful new programs to attract, retain and accelerate the careers of women executives.

Columbia Business School Executive Education and Merrill Lynch Greater Returns

Research shows that many of our most talented women take breaks during their careers (known as “off-ramping”), and then find it difficult to return to the workplace (“on-ramping”). Greater Returns: Restarting Your Career offers strategies to keep women professionally connected, easing their transition back to work. Greater Returns: Accelerating Your Career is geared toward the needs of women executives in the workforce who are seeking to stand out and boost their careers ("up-ramping").

Participant Profile:
The audience for this program is on-ramping women executives who have taken time off (between 1 to 5 years) or want to take their career to the next level.

With a rich menu of substantive offering that enhance bandwidth and develop leadership capacity, these programs support high-performing, high-potential women at critical points on the career path.

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The Greater Returns: Restarting Your Career “onramping” program is designed for women with significant business experience who want to re-enter the workplace after a career break.

Dates : October 27 - 29, 2008

Audience: on-ramping women executives who have taken time off (between 1 to 5 years).

Additional criteria for acceptance into the program are:

Superior interpersonal skills
Strong sales skills
Financial analysis/analytical thinking
Strong multiple project management

This program is underwritten by funding from Merrill Lynch. There is a fee of $350 to cover administrative costs and materials. Applicants will be accepted on the following criteria and will be asked to write a short essay on why they are interested in the program and how it relates to their re-entry goals.

The Greater Returns: Accelerating Your Career "upramping" program will be held in the October of 2009.

Audience: women executives who want to take their career to the next level.

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Faculty Director(s):

Professor Ann Bartel

Ann P. Bartel
Merrill Lynch Professor of Workplace Transformation, Director of the Business School's Workforce Transformation research initiative, funded by Merrill Lynch
Finance and Economics
Professor Bartel is an expert in the fields of labor economics, managerial negotiations and human resource management and has published many articles on employee training, job mobility and technological change.
Click here to see professor Bartel's website.
“Columbia Business School has been a leader in providing graduate business education to talented women. With this new program, we confirm our commitment to this goal. This exciting new program will provide on-ramping women executives with the tools and support they need to succeed.”
- Ann P. Bartel

Program Director

Professor Ann Bartel

Sylvia Ann Hewlett
An economist and the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy, Sylvia directs the "Hidden Brain Drain" - a task force of 43 global companies committed to fully realizing female and multicultural talent over their lifespan. She also heads up the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Dr. Hewlett is well known for her expertise on gender and workplace issues and is the architect of numerous models of best practice, particularly on-ramping programs, developed by Task Force member companies. She is the author of six critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including When the Bough Breaks (winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West), Creating a Life (named as one of the best books of 2002 by Business Week) and, most recently, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (Harvard Business School Press). A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her PhD degree in economics at London University.

Participant Profile:

The audience for this program is on-ramping women executives who have taken time off (between 1 to 5 years) or want to take their career to the next level.

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Greater Returns: Restarting Your Career
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October 2009 - TBA
Greater Returns: Accelerating Your Career

Contact us for more information at execed@columbia.edu

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