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Executive Summary

An Impactful Program, and Ready to Implement

The implementation of a Alumni Mentorship Program at Simon will help it be “ever better” by establishing a formal channel for accumulated knowledge to flow from alumni and other business leaders to current students. In addition, the mentorship program will help build a stronger and more active Simon community. With access to this knowledge and insight, students will be better equipped and more focused in determining and pursuing their career aspirations. It will help both students who are assessing their career interests and those who have already established their career targets, making this program beneficial to full- and part-time, domestic and international, M.B.A., E.M.B.A., Ph.D., M.S., Early Leader® and traditional students.

This systematized contact will strengthen the sense of community between current students and graduates of Simon, as well as provide networking opportunities among mentors. The spillover effects will be an increase in student placement rates and higher starting salaries, boosting Simon in the rankings and helping it move toward its goal of becoming a top-20 business school. It will act as a source of competitive advantage with recruitment implications.

This program, to be directly implemented by students and overseen by a core group of faculty and staff, is designed to directly confront the pitfalls that have lead similar programs at other schools to die off. With the best practices of other programs as examples, we designed this program based on the “best practices” of similar successful programs and feature very specific timelines and responsibility allocations. We declare the possibility of being a School whose students are among the most inspired in the country and a community who will build the awareness and reputation of the School.