SDA Bocconi and women's empowerment

SDA Bocconi is proud to provide women with enlightening educational experiences and business networks. The School is committed to attract and provide talented women of various backgrounds with the tools to take on leadership roles. Our distinguished faculty alongside with an innovative curriculum and supportive learning milieu get women ready for the challenges ahead.

SDA Bocconi ceaselessly deploys efforts to increase the enrollment of the highest percentage of women within the School.
Indeed, women represent 29% within the current Full-time MBA classes and 42% of the Global Executive MBA. The School selects its female participants from an array of industries in order to create equal opportunities for different professional and personal aspirations. We also strive to provide a structure for present and prospective female leaders to connect with each other.

The Diversity Management Monitor of the Research Division of the SDA Bocconi was created with the aim of fostering managerial know-how in a complex and diverse business world. For years now it has carried out research that involve close collaboration with partner companies. The Osservatorio also offers special training courses designed for female managers.

The Women In Business Club came into existence with the purpose to provide a solid social and networking foundation among MBA female students.
The Club creates a forum to address the most relevant issues women are involved in. It also holds activities and workshops that raise women's awareness on leadership roles. WIB speaker series features influential businesswomen: such keynote speakers provide insights with female leaders on the rise.

SDA Bocconi is dedicated to the recruitment of female participants as strategy towards having class diversity. The School has led a number of initiatives to foster a steady quota of women in the Programs we deliver. For instance, SDA Bocconi has merit-based scholarships exclusively granted to female applicants with outstanding profiles.
The School offers two scholarships to female participants applying to the full time MBA, as part of its membership agreement with the Forté Foundation. Partial scholarships are often available also for female applicants to the Executive MBA programs.
The School has furthermore strengthened its ties with partner companies that favor women through study grants or specific on-campus recruiting projects.

SDA Bocconi is proud to be a Forté Foundation sponsor. Forté is a consortium of leading corporations, cutting-edge business schools and active non-profit organizations that aim at the empowerment of females with the ambition to pursue leadership roles through quality education.
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Prague, 8 - 10 October 2009

Among the initiatives undertaken by SDA Bocconi to further the integration of women in business and management, the sponsorship of the WIN Conference (Women International Networking), now in its twelfth edition, is perhaps the most successful of its kind.

Kristin Engvig, a SDA Bocconi Master graduate, is the engine behind WIN.
From the outset, the WIN Conference has received the backing of the School, which appreciates the importance of this type of meeting and sharing of experience and ideas. Topics range from the main economic and social trends under way, to the success stories of large corporations, and the themes of women's leadership and empowerment.
Each year this international conference draws some 700 attendants from five continents, and is sponsored by several major international companies, such as Shell, HP, Cisco Systems, Volvo, Whirlpool, IBM, Continental Airlines, CNN, Reuters, among others.