The Georgia Institute of Technology – Scheller College of Business has partnered with the Forté Foundation in order to promote change and encourage opportunities for women in business.
The Forté Foundation is an association of companies, top business schools, and the Graduate Management Admission Council working together to provide educational opportunities for women in the business field.
Maryam Alavi, Scheller College dean, commented on the importance of the new partnership. “Diversity, equality, and inclusion are fundamental values at Scheller College and Georgia Tech. Chief among our strategic plan objectives was a goal to ‘foster a diverse, inclusive, vibrant, and innovative community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni’,” she said. “Our partnership with the Forté Foundation will continue our trajectory to help advance women in the field of business.”
The Forté Foundation partners with schools through invitation, and with the addition of Scheller now features 50 member schools in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Other schools partnered with the Forté Foundation include Harvard Business School, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, among other top business schools in the United States.
Together with its partner schools, the Forté Foundation works to expand its reach and impact in helping women to prepare for a career in business. This can include an increase in access to education, education women on the value of an MBA and increasing awareness of the importance and impact of women in business.
The Forté Foundation was founded in 2001 with the aim of highlighting inequality and how it impacts the field of business. The foundation was influenced by the study “Women and the MBA: Gateway to Opportunity”, which analyzed the lack of female representation in top business schools. The Forté Foundation aims to increase the ability of its educational and corporate partners to recruit female talent and increase the number of women early in the business pipeline.