Executive Education Opportunities for Diversity Suppliers

AT&T provides funding to support several executive management training opportunities for minority, women and disabled veteran owned business enterprises (M/WBE-DVBEs). The programs described below are among the most highly regarded graduate level executive training programs in the country. We hope that these leading-edge programs will provide valuable coaching and tangible business benefits to our suppliers and to those companies that wish to become suppliers to AT&T. Please contact the individual programs for more information.

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) - California

• San Ramon, CA - Spring, 4-day session
• Los Angeles, CA - Fall, 10-week session
• Available to MBEs/WBEs/DVBEs
• Special SBC preferred rate
• Contact: Jennifer Tooley, UCLA 310-206-4169
  http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/research/mde/

The Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) Program, offered by the Anderson School at UCLA, enables entrepreneurs and managers to develop essential management skills and strengthen their ability to build effective and profitable organizations. An intensive 10-week certificate program, MDE provides participants with instruction in up-to-the minute theory and practice in areas such as strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and management. All MDE courses are taught by award-winning faculty who teach Anderson’s top-ranked MBA programs. In addition to a varied curriculum of lectures, case discussions, and applied workshops, participants receive individual consultative assistance and work closely with faculty to confront issues facing today’s growing enterprises.


Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois

• 5 day, on-campus management program
• Session held in June
• Available to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) only
• Tuition approximately $4000
• 3 full scholarships available through AT&T
• Contact: Steven Sims, NMSDC, 212-944-2430

The Advanced Management Education Program is a customized executive program offered by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. It is designed to provide certified, established, expansion-oriented MBEs with the tools and skills needed to achieve and sustain accelerated growth. The program instills NMSDC’s institutional knowledge of corporations and procurement practices into a curriculum that is focused on the most managerially relevant topics to MBEs. The program topics include: growth-oriented strategies, improving leadership and management skills, self-assessments and new business opportunities. The scholarship includes tuition, materials, lodging and meals. Applicants should be MBE owners/CEOs, whose businesses are:

• over 3 years old
• Professional services firms must be at a minimum of $3M dollars a year and manufacturing companies must be at $5M annual sales
• recommended by an NMSDC corporate member or maintain membership in an NMSDC local affiliate.

Dartmouth College, Hanover - New Hampshire

• 5 day, on-campus session
• Two programs: Initial (MBEP) and Advanced (AMBEP for graduates of MBEP)
• Sessions held in July and AMBEP sessions held in November
• Available to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) only
• Tuition approximately $4400
• 4 full scholarships available through AT&T
• Contact: Paula Graves, 603-646-3740
  http://www.dartmouth.edu/tuck/exec_ed/programs/mbep.html

The Minority Business Executive Program has been offered by the Tuck School of Business for over 20 years. Touted as the nation’s first minority business executive program, the MBEP has helped hundreds of graduates improve their ability to make business decisions through the use of financial data, create market –focused strategies, improve performance, enhance communications and explore ideas for growth. Workshops and speakers from the business and public policy arenas add to the intensive MBEP learning experience. This is a 5-day, on campus executive management program for minority business owners and key officers. Applicants for MBEP should be MBE presidents or senior officers, with businesses over 3 years old, employ at least 3 full time people and have sales of at least $500K. AMBEP applicants should be owners or executives of minority owned companies with a minimum of 5 years business experience.


Dartmouth College, Palisades, NY

• 5 day, on-campus session
• One program
• Session held in October
• Available to WBENC-certified WBEs only
• Tuition approximately $5000
• 4 full scholarships available through AT&T
• Contact: Danielle Walton, 202-872-5515, ext. 21
  http://wbenc.org/programs/accelerator/tuck.html

The Tuck-WBENC Executive Program was initiated in 2003 to offer an education program specifically for women-owned businesses. This program is being offered to assist those WBE businesses to assess, improve and grow their businesses. This program is targeted to WBE firms that are beyond the start up phase. It will assist WBEs in making strategic business decisions, optimize core business processes, ensure adequate cash flows and staffing, and manage business relationships. In addition, this program is modeled after the successful Tuck programs for minority–owned business enterprises. This is a 5-day, on campus executive management program. Applicants should be WBENC certified, WBE presidents or senior officers, with businesses over 3 years old, employ at least 3 full time people and have sales of at least $300K.

Testimonial:

"Angela, I cannot begin to express my gratitude for AT&T's sponsorship of me to last week's TUCK WBENC executive program. The other WBE's in attendance, the professors and the curriculum were amazing. As a matter of fact, I felt that the professors were extraordinary. I feel that I would have been a much better student in college had I had professors like them. I have returned to my office energized. As I think I may have mentioned when we briefly spoke, my company is 15 years old and was stagnating. It was time to re-engineer. This program came at the perfect time for me. I feel privileged to have been a part of it. I personally feel better able to be more strategic in the future development and growth of my company. I now have the tools and the energy to do just that thanks to you."

Danette Gossett, Gossett Marketing

University of Wisconsin - Madison

• 5 day, on-campus seminar
• Session held in June
• Available to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) only
• 2 full scholarships available through AT&T
• Contact: Dr. Floyd Rose, 608-241-5858

The Minority Business Management Seminar (MBMS) was created by the Wisconsin Supplier Development Council, an affiliate of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and is operated in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin, Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The MBMS is a business management seminar that has been exclusively tailored for the owners and executives of minority-owned firms. Minority entrepreneurs from across the United States will be brought to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for a 5-day educational experience involving business theory and practical application taught by some of the country’s most distinguished business faculty and practitioners.