PhD Project Announces 1,000th Success Story

The PhD Project, an award-winning program aimed at increasing diversity in America’s business management ranks, recently announced an important milestone—Shalei Simms, became the 1,000th US minority business school professor when she defended her dissertation, “Why Who You Are At The Time Matters: An Examination of the Relationship Between Social Identity Salience and Risky Decision Making.” Simms received her PhD in management from Rutgers University and is currently on faculty at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

The PhD Project was created by the KPMG Foundation in 1994, when fewer than 300 of the nation’s 26,000 business school professors were African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Native Americans with doctorates. Today, more than 400 students are pursuing PhDs in business under the project’s umbrella.

Daily Drucker, At Your Fingertips

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University have announced the release of “Drucker Now,” a free iPhone application that provides instant access to insights from the late management guru Peter Drucker. Among other features, “Drucker Now” links users to the school’s iTunes U channel and its Twitter feed, which features regular entries from The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done.

Veterans Program Expands

The US Small Business Administration announced a three-year agreement to expand and deliver entrepreneurship training for service-disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The announcement means that the SBA’s Office of Veterans Business Development will expand the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), which helps veterans develop business ideas. The University of Connecticut’s School of Business recently joined the EBV program. Other members of the consortium include the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, the founding member; the Mays Business School at Texas A&M; UCLA’s Anderson School of Management; Florida State University’s College of Business; and the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.