Spring 11 MASTER.indd - Thunderbird Magazine

Thunderbird
to host 100
global women
entrepreneurs
Thunderbird School
of Global Management
has been
chosen by the U.S.
Department of State and
the Goldman Sachs 10,000
Women initiative to train
100 global women entrepreneurs
in an innovative
business skills program.
The announcement came
March 8, 2011, on the 100th
anniversary of International
Women’s Day at the State
Department International
Women of Courage Awards
Ceremony.
This new public-private
partnership, unveiled by
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and Goldman
Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein,
will establish a program
to provide business and
management training to
100 emerging women entrepreneurs.
The State Department
will identify and select the
program participants, and
Thunderbird will train them
at its campus in Glendale,
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks March 8, 2011, at the
International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony in Washington,
D.C.
Arizona. The women will
come together from all over
the world for training.
The new partnership is
part of Goldman Sachs’
10,000 Women initiative,
a $100 million, five-year
worldwide campaign to
drive economic growth by
providing 10,000 women a
business and management
education as well as access to
capital, networks and mentors.
Launched on March
8, 2008, the program has
reached more than 3,500
women in more than 20
countries through a network
of more than 70 academic
and nonprofit partners.
Thunderbird already partners
with the 10,000 Women
initiative for programs
in Afghanistan, Peru and
Pakistan.
“Initiatives like 10,000
Women invest in the economic
empowerment of
women to promote security,
stability and prosperity
around the globe,” Clinton
said.
news & notes
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
Fluor
appoints
CEO with
T-bird ties
New Fluor CEO David
T. Seaton has something
in common with many executives
of the Texas-based
engineering and construction
company. He has an
advanced management
certificate from the Thunderbird
International Consortia,
which bring together
diverse companies to share
ideas and develop talent in
one classroom.
As a charter member of
the consortia, Fluor has
sent high-potential leaders
to Glendale, Arizona, since
1993.
“The list of participants
reads like a who’s who of
Fluor,” said Glenn Gilkey,
Fluor’s senior vice president
of human resources and
administration. “A high
percentage of these people
are at the VP or senior
leadership level within the
organization.”
Seaton, who took Fluor’s
helm on Feb. 3, 2011, participated
at Thunderbird in
May 1998. He has a bachelor’s
degree from the University
of South Carolina.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOR GLOBAL IMPACT
Global Leadership
for Global Impact
Under Thunderbird 2020, we commit to not
just maintaining our leadership as the world’s
first and best school of global management, but
rather broadening our impact in order to make
a deep and positive difference in the world
around us. If there is one unifying theme to
Thunderbird 2020, it is most certainly “impact.”
Therefore, the Vision 2020 tagline has become
“Global Leadership for Global Impact.”
OUR MISSION:
We educate global leaders
who create sustainable
prosperity worldwide.
OUR VISION:
We will dramatically grow our positive impact
in a world economy in dire need of the global
leadership talent we were founded to provide.
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