Forté Events

Venture Capital is a driving force behind entrepreneurship and innovation. It fuels the economy, creates growth opportunities for companies large and small and it funds the business development strategies of major corporations.

But while Venture Capital is an integral part of the global economy – the unique inner workings of venture capital firms and their processes are a well-guarded secret.

The Venture Capital Executive Program is essential for experienced investors, corporate executives and serious entrepreneurs that not only want an exclusive window into this ever-changing industry but also want to gain insider tips on how to succeed with Venture Capital firms.

No other program gives you the access, the interaction and the 1:1 networking opportunities with key industry leaders and innovators than the Venture Capital Executive Program at the UC Berkeley Executive Education. And where better than to get an exclusive window into the dynamics of the most successful venture capital firms than the world’s premier innovative cluster: Silicon Valley?

Guided by Berkeley Haas faculty member and former entrepreneur and venture capitalist Jerry Engel, the Venture Capital Executive Program provides a comprehensive overview of the venture capital investing cycle from opportunity assessment, valuation, deal structuring and corporate governance to harvesting investments.

Over the course of this incredible five-day program, you’ll hear presentations and panel discussions from over 20+ top Venture Capital investors. Previous panelists represented top firms such as:

First Round Capital / Kleiner, Perkins / Battery Ventures / 500 Startups / Foundation Capital / Monitor Ventures / Mayfield Fund / Google Ventures / True Ventures / Norwest / M34 Capital  / Citi Ventures / Bootstrap Labs / Bee Partners / Lightspeed / Alphabet / Rockport / Newbury / Artiman Venture / Sequoia Capital / Onset Ventures / Top Tier Capital / X Fund

These lively and interactive discussions provide insights on the latest practices and trends in the start-up world. Core topics include:

• Silicon Valley Venture Economy
• Innovation Through New Venture Creation
• Deal Structure, Terms and Due Diligence
• VC Economics and Career Decisions
• Achieving Liquidity and Accelerating Returns

Venture Capital accessibility and availability are keys to economic growth. The Venture Capital Executive Program gives you unprecedented access to learn from the inside out.

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To reach your potential  entrée to the highest executive levels  you need a strategic plan, a personal map to guide you to the top. The Academy will help you craft your leadership brand for both individual and organizational success while leveraging the unique strengths and addressing the challenges specific to women business leaders. It will arm you with the tools for effective negotiation to hurdle obstacles, secure necessary resources, and further your upward trajectory.

Learn from both proven experts in relevant fields and renowned faculty on the leading edge. Strengthen key negotiating skills, particularly crucial for women in business. Explore critical areas that include networking, sponsorship, and executive presence required for getting things done through others and across organizational boundaries.

The Academy is far more than a series of passive classroom lectures  be prepared for an interactive, results-driven week that will leave you with a defined plan of action to take your career to the next level  the one you deserve.

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The 2019 Women in Investment Management conference will focus on pathways to achieve success—for individual careers, for investment teams, and for those in leadership positions. Attendees will come away with practical strategies for reaching their goals at all stages of their investment careers. This conference will provide a forum for women and those from diverse backgrounds to network, exchange ideas, and develop connections to help them succeed as investment professionals. The conference will allow attendees to meet passionate women in the investment industry, increase their skills and knowledge, and apply constructive career tools to help open doors and mark a pathway to success.

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Register now to attend the largest MBA Tour in Calgary and meet with several top universities, all under one roof!  Receive all the information you need to explore your MBA options; learn about local schools, explore MBA programs from schools around the U.S. or even the possibility of studying abroad or online.  Along with having all your admissions questions answered, you will also receive GMAT test-prep advice, a resume review, take a free headshot, and much more.

By attending you’ll also gain exclusive access to information about over $7M worth scholarships, application fee waivers and more discounts and offers from QS partners.

What to expect:

• Open fair with around 50 top schools from around the world
• The event is free flowing and made for attendees to come and go when convenient
• Seminars and Information Sessions
• Networking with peer candidates, industry experts, as well as local alumni
• You’ll also receive a lanyard that will provide access to MBA scholarships worth $7 million!

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Join us for this Inside the MBA (IMBA) reception to gain insights about business school, including how to choose an MBA program and navigate the MBA admissions process. This event is one of a series of small admissions receptions sponsored by seventeen of the world’s leading business schools.

Attend an event near you so that you can:

• Connect with your target Schools
• Explore other MBA program options
• Meet with admissions officers and alumni
• Expand your network and meet other attendees

Attendance is free and events are scheduled in many cities across the United States. Up to $80,000 in Inside the MBA scholarships are offered by member schools to qualified applicants who attend an Inside the MBA event in the current recruiting year.

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Join local students and alumni to hear their perspectives on why Wharton is worth the commute to San Francisco. Admissions Director Barbara Craft will be on hand to provide an overview of what makes the Wharton MBA Program for Executives unique and share insight into the admissions process. You’ll have time for networking while enjoying light refreshments. Come learn what it takes to earn the world renowned Wharton MBA while continuing to live and work in Palo Alto.

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Johnson Women in Business (JWiB) is our female student hosting event on the Cornell University campus. During this two day experience, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Learn about the Johnson MBA program, student experience, and resources to support women
• Gain valuable information on how to position yourself as a leading candidate for admission
• Network with Johnson students, faculty, staff, and alumnae
• Participate in Johnson’s Annual Women in Business Symposium on Saturday, September 21st

JWiB 2019 participants will be eligible to receive an invitation to interview throughout the application cycle along with a Johnson application fee waiver for use during the 2020 application year. Candidates applying via The Consortium will receive up to a $200 travel voucher in lieu of the Johnson application fee waiver.

If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid at mba@johnson.cornell.edu.

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SOM Communities is a one and one-half day on-campus event that will expose you to the vibrant and diverse Yale SOM community.  You will connect with members of the Black Business Alliance, the Association of Hispanic and Latin American Students, and the Out of Office (LGBTQ) student clubs.  You will also have the opportunity to visit classes (on Thursday) and learn more about the MBA application process and resources for applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Forté Partner Event

Register now to attend the largest MBA Tour in Montreal and meet with several top universities, all under one roof!  Receive all the information you need to explore your MBA options; learn about local schools, explore MBA programs from schools around the U.S. or even the possibility of studying abroad or online.  Along with having all your admissions questions answered, you will also receive GMAT test-prep advice, a resume review, take a free headshot, and much more.

By attending you’ll also gain exclusive access to information about over $7M worth scholarships, application fee waivers and more discounts and offers from QS partners.

What to expect:

• Open fair with around 50 top schools from around the world
• The event is free flowing and made for attendees to come and go when convenient
• Seminars and Information Sessions
• Networking with peer candidates, industry experts, as well as local alumni
• You’ll also receive a lanyard that will provide access to MBA scholarships worth $7 million!

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Finance and Accounting for Non-Finance Executives equips professionals with knowledge of accounting and financial principles as they relate to organizations’ operations and decision-making processes. It also prepares financial analysts and investors with a general understanding of the valuation content and limitations of financial statement information.

Starting with a review of financial data in a company’s annual report and accounting statements, participants will gain a well-rounded understanding of how basic accounting information may be used in communicating with financial managers, as well as to assess a firm’s future prospects and value. The remaining time will be spent covering finance principles relevant to leaders whose primary job responsibilities are outside of the finance function with implications for project decisions, corporate structure and performance measurement. This will involve examining how project choice maps to various financial metrics and highlighting common pitfalls in this process, such as recent psychological biases described in the field of Behavioral Finance.

Topics include:

• Balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
• Valuation
• Financial performance measurement
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Financial structure
• Behavioral finance

Program takeaways:

• Financial Report Analysis: Analyze a firm’s annual reports and statements to interpret the data for use in the organization and to assess a firm’s future prospects and value.
• Improved Decision Making: Evaluate concerns related to the acquisition/investment decisions of the organization and their funding.
• Valuation Techniques: Practice valuation techniques of Discounted Cash Flow and NPV in the form of discussion, exercise and real case analysis.

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Move your leadership to center stage with Yale School of Management Executive Programs. Join the Women’s Leadership Program and work with executive coaches, network with peers, and learn from industry leaders to develop your authentic leadership style.

Renowned Yale faculty lead a wide range of interactive learning sessions designed to help participants transition to senior leadership. Featuring experts in organizational behavior, marketing, and innovation, participants gain skills in decision-making, creating and leading high-performing teams, negotiating, and managing crises.

Enrollment Deadline: September 8

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This webinar is meant for students early on in their MBA decision making journey.  It will cover things happening in the graduate management marketplace and how a Michigan State Broad MBA can help students navigate the next step of their career.

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Women Lead Webinar Series

Exclusively for Premium Access Pass members

The single hardest part of the modern job search is getting an interview.  The only predictable way to get an interview is to network, but “network” is frustratingly vague. How exactly do you network so that it leads to interviews?

In this webinar, The 2-Hour Job Search author and Duke MBA career consultant Steve Dalton shares his set of instructions – rather than a series of tips – for effectively turning strangers into advocates, leading to more knowledge, more advocacy, and more job interviews. This session proposes an efficient alternative to hopelessly applying to online job postings, essentially turning “networking” from a disjointed list of tips into a finite and replicable recipe.

To create his process, Dalton drew upon the latest scientific advances from fields ranging from behavioral economics to operations theory to social psychology to split networking into its three component parts—Prioritize, Contact, and Convince—and optimize each in turn. Attendees of this webinar will learn to harness free and simple technology to get the right job (or promotion, or new client…) faster and more authentically than ever before.

The webinar is presented by:

Steve Dalton

Steve Dalton is Program Director for Daytime Career Services at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Prior to entering the career services industry, Steve was a strategy consultant at A.T. Kearney and an associate marketing manager at General Mills.  He holds his own MBA from Duke and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western.

Random House published Steve’s debut book, The 2-Hour Job Search, in March 2012.  It has since become a #1 best-seller on Amazon.com, and its concepts are now taught at over one hundred universities worldwide. A newly-revised edition of The 2-Hour Job Search will be available in bookstores on April 21^st, 2020.

Join Steve and other readers of the book on his LinkedIn Group, The 2-Hour Job Search Q&A Forum.

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This webinar is sponsored by Duke University (Fuqua School of Business):

Forté webinars are produced for the benefit of our members. Information provided on this webinar should not be reproduced, distributed or published without the written consent of Forté and permission from individual speakers. If you wish to use our content, please contact Forté for permission.

Please join an Admissions team member, along with current students and alumni at Firefly restaurant to learn about Fuqua’s School of Business working professional programs: The Weekend Executive and Global Executive programs. Lunch will be provided.

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The MBA application process can be daunting, but Forté is here to help. Get focused with Forté MBALaunch, a 10-month program that pairs women seeking an MBA with a support network and provides a structured roadmap for applying to business schools.

MBALaunch is a balance of in-person and virtual events to keep you connected and get you prepared for your application. We welcome you to join us for a webinar where we will explain the program in greater detail.

The MBALaunch: Steps to Success webinar will discuss our program features, resources, and timeline. We will explain the:

• In-person/virtual format
• Connection you will have with current MBA students/alumnae/and admissions staff
• Supportive peer network

The webinar is a chance to hear from MBALaunch alumna and to get your questions answered. We look forward to assisting you on your MBA journey!

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Forté webinars are produced for the benefit of our members. Information provided on this webinar should not be reproduced, distributed or published without the written consent of Forté and permission from individual speakers. If you wish to use our content, please contact Forté for permission.

Please join an Admissions team member, along with current students and alumni at Covina restaurant to learn about Fuqua’s School of Business working professional programs: The Weekend Executive and Global Executive programs. Lunch will be provided.

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Join us for our next NYU Stern Executive MBA Program in Washington DC Information Session.

Come to learn how the Executive MBA program can help transform your capabilities. Meet Admissions Directors, Current Students and Alumni.

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The digital age brings new challenges to marketers and leaders. Those challenges include shifting attention away from incrementally improving their existing portfolio of product, customer service, and branding initiatives, towards finding new, latent, invisible needs that represent an opportunity for the firm to reframe customer value and establish the firm’s future relevance and uniqueness.

In this three-day program, we lay out the framework for mastering leadership in a world of digital disruption. This program examines the key trends impacting the marketer’s role today. It provides practical frameworks and methodologies for managing the core marketing tasks in the context of digital enablement.

Program outcomes include:

• Assessing Digital Leadership Capability: The Digital Readiness Scorecard
• Crafting the Digital Leadership Plan: The Road Map for Organizational Resilience in a World of Digital Transformation

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Maximize your professional potential with Georgia Tech’s Full-time MBA program. By attending this unique, one-time event, you will interact directly with current students and MBA Program staff. You’ll get to experience a day in the life of a Scheller student by attending an MBA class, having coffee with current students, and touring the College. The day will close with an insightful student panel to learn more about your opportunities within our program as well as an information session to help you with the application process.

As a pillar in our 2020 Strategic Plan, Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech has committed to increasing diversity in our programs, including the number of women in business programs, which foster a diverse, inclusive, vibrant, innovative community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We are pleased to have a strong pipeline of female talent in our midst  these are truly WOMEN WHO MEAN BUSINESS. Enrollment has reached 40% female in our full-time program classes for both the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021. Visit for your chance to experience why so many women are choosing Scheller.

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Forté Partner Event

Register now to attend the largest MBA Tour in Philadelphia and meet with several top universities, all under one roof!  Receive all the information you need to explore your MBA options; learn about local schools, explore MBA programs from schools around the U.S. or even the possibility of studying abroad or online.  Along with having all your admissions questions answered, you will also receive GMAT test-prep advice, a resume review, take a free headshot, and much more.

By attending you’ll also gain exclusive access to information about over $7M worth scholarships, application fee waivers and more discounts and offers from QS partners.

What to expect:

• Open fair with around 50 top schools from around the world
• The event is free flowing and made for attendees to come and go when convenient
• Seminars and Information Sessions
• Networking with peer candidates, industry experts, as well as local alumni
• You’ll also receive a lanyard that will provide access to MBA scholarships worth $7 million!

Register

Join us for this Inside the MBA (IMBA) reception to gain insights about business school, including how to choose an MBA program and navigate the MBA admissions process. This event is one of a series of small admissions receptions sponsored by seventeen of the world’s leading business schools.

Attend an event near you so that you can:

• Connect with your target Schools
• Explore other MBA program options
• Meet with admissions officers and alumni
• Expand your network and meet other attendees

Attendance is free and events are scheduled in many cities across the United States. Up to $80,000 in Inside the MBA scholarships are offered by member schools to qualified applicants who attend an Inside the MBA event in the current recruiting year.

Register