The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management

The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management is committed to increasing the representation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in American business schools and corporate management.

Our approach is simple:
We connect people, institutions and companies that have shown a commitment to our mission, and we position them for even greater success. Specifically, we foster a network of the country's best students, leading MBA programs and corporate partners, including Fortune 500 companies.

The Consortium awards merit-based, full-tuition fellowships to top MBA candidates who have a proven record of promoting inclusion in school, in their jobs or in their personal lives.

Our Mission
The mission of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, an alliance of leading American business schools and some of our country's top corporations, is to enhance diversity in business education and leadership by helping to reduce the serious underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in both the member schools' enrollments and the ranks of management.

Strategic Goal 1: Understand, improve and build The Consortium's value proposition for key stakeholders.

Strategic Goal 2: Build brand recognition and reputation.

Strategic Goal 3: Ensure the long-term fiscal health of The Consortium by continuously improving our value proposition for our current corporate partners and alumni in an effort to improve annual giving levels. Aggressively seek new areas of financial support from both corporate and private foundations. Concurrently, develop strategies to identify and secure new corporate partners with demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion. Continuously reinvest the proceeds from revenues generated into three primary areas; school distributions, staff training and development, and operating reserves.

Objective 4: Increase individual donor funding from to $0.5MM annually by 2019 through the creation of a sustainable individual giving program, which includes alumni, students, friends and corporate matching gifts.

Objective 5: Reinvest the increased revenue stream by funding additional school distributions, enhancing our ability to deliver constituent service and maintain a prudent level of reserves.

Staff: Our team of 20 works in a variety of areas to support our mission. We collaborate with our 18 member schools on recruiting students; we support alumni through outreach programs, alumni regional networks, and working with corporate partners and alumni to fill mid-career and executive job opportunities.

Member schools: Our 18 dedicated top MBA programs across the country work closely with us to recruit students, prepare them for their MBA education and facilitate a community of similarly mission-oriented students.

Corporate partners: More than 80 corporate partners provide support for operating activities through our annual fund and our annual five-day MBA preparation workshop/conference, the Orientation Program & Career Forum. There, more than 1,200 students, alumni, partners and school representatives gather for preparation workshops, networking events and social community building time.

Despite these accomplishments, overall enrollment of underrepresented minorities at top full-time MBA programs is about 8 percent, compared to the 20 percent these groups represent in the overall population. Although the aforementioned results are evidence of our progress, significant strides are still necessary.