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Held this past March, the First National Gay & Lesbian Business
Conference was a great success. Bringing together almost 150
MBA students and alumni from all over the country, the event provided
a unique opportunity to network and discuss the challenges we face
in the workplace today. McKinsey, Booz·Allen & Hamilton,
and Mitchell Madison served as our corporate sponsors. The conference
was covered by the New York Times, the Sunday Boston Globe, Newsday,
and the Advocate. It was a great honor and pleasure for Yale SOM's
Q+ and HBS's GLSA to work together in organizing this event. Thanks
to everyone who attended and helped make the conference possible.
Please join us in Philadelphia next March 24th and 25th for the
Gay & Lesbian Business Conference 2000, which will be organized
by Wharton and Columbia. SOM's Q+ will continue to be involved in
the event, helping to organize a panel session and sending another
strong contingent from New Haven. Check out this web page for more
details as they become available. We look forward to seeing you
there!
Some highlights of the 1999 Gay & Lesbian Business Conference:
Presented by:
Gay and Lesbian
Student Association,
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Q+: The Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Straight
Alliance,
Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT
Corporate Sponsors:
Mitchell Madison
Group
Media Sponsors:
Partner Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Groups:
Columbia Business School, New York, NY
The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH
The Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN
Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA
Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago, IL
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
The Marshall School of Business, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Keynote Speakers:
Julie Palen,
Founder
InterNoded
Incorporated
Cambridge, MA
Walter Schubert,
Founder
Gay Financial Network
New York, NY
Featured Speaker:
Bob Powers,
President
Bob Powers Associates,
San Francisco, CA
Participating Professional Organizations:
Gay & Lesbian
Professional Career Network (GLPCN)
Greater Boston Business
Council (GBBC)
MBAQ
New York Bankers
Group (NYBG)
Partner Business School Alumni Organizations:
Harvard Business School Association of Gay and Lesbian Alumni (HBSA
GALA)
Alumni Out For Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business
LGB Alumni Alliance, Yale School of Management
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 26, 1999
6:30pm-9:00pm
Cocktail Reception
Naumburg Room, Fogg Art Museum
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
(Yahoo!
map)
Saturday, March 27, 1999
Aldrich Hall, Room 112
Harvard
Business School campus
9:00am Registration and Morning Coffee
10:00am Introduction and Opening Keynote
Julie Palen,
Founder of InterNoded Incorporated and one of Out Magazine's 1998
OUT 100
10:45am
Panel I: Gay & Lesbian Life in the Corporate World
Organized by The Wharton School
Carl Rosendorf, Senior Vice President, barnesandnoble.com
Zoe Dunning, A. T. Kearney
Troy Senter, Class of 1999, The Wharton School
Moderator: Peter Allen, Class of 2000, The Wharton School
12:15pm
Lunch and Career Development/Networking Sessions
1:30pm
Conference Workshop
"Out at Work: Making Millions and Adding Value"
Organized and Sponsored by Yale School of Management
Bob Powers, author of "The
Manager's Guide to Sexual
Orientation in the Workplace" and President of Bob Powers
Associates, a San Francisco based diversity consulting firm
3:00pm
Panel II: Gay & Lesbian Internet Marketplace
Organized by Columbia Business School
Eric Westby, Director of New Media, Atlantic Monthly
Mitch Adams, CEO, Healthwatch Technologies LLP
Evan Bachner, VP Investor Services Development, Merrill Lynch
Elliott Rebhun, Editor, NYT Arts & Entertainment online
Tom Rielly, Founder, Planet Out
Moderator: Andy Larson, Class of 2000, Columbia Business School
4:30pm
Closing Keynote
Walter Schubert, Founder of the Gay Financial Network and the first
openly gay person elected to the New York Stock Exchange
After the Closing Keynote please join us in the Boardroom of Kresge
Hall on the HBS
campus for a Cocktail Reception with an introduction
by Bill Stasior, Chairman of Booz·Allen & Hamilton.
Please visit the Conference website:
For more information about the 1999 Gay & Lesbian Business
Conference, contact:
James Robertson,
Class of 1999, Yale School of Management
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