Goizueta has long been committed to elevating women in business. Central to that commitment is not only providing a world-class education, but also fostering a supportive community with programming designed to address the unique challenges women face—while engaging all students, including men, as allies and advocates.
Open to all
Women in Business
Women Excel at Goizueta
No Glass Ceilings. Only Open Doors.
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Goizueta Leadership Are Women
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Highest % of Women Faculty
(Financial Times Top 25 US MBAs)
Breaking Barriers. Building Futures.
Goizueta LeadHERship Program
Goizueta's LeadHERship Program delivers a range of large-group signature events and more intimate workshops throughout the year to create a bonded community and strengthen your professional network among women and allies in business (fellow MBA students, Goizueta alumni, and executives in the region).
Goizueta LeadHERship Signature Events
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Onboarding
Start your MBA experience with a welcome from the Program Dean and staff as well as a keynote on building a successful business school experience by Goizueta faculty, containing practical tips for enhancing performance outcomes and experiences. -
Fall Brunch with Women Leaders
Enjoy a facilitated conversation with 3-4 senior women leaders discussing their own career trajectories and providing inspiration as well as tactical lessons for career management. -
Mid-Year Check-In
Gather with your fellow first-year classmates in an informal, supportive environment to have a frank conversation about the successes and challenges women faced in their first half-year of business school. -
Capstone Dinner
Bookend your MBA experience with a capstone dinner as you near graduation. This is an opportunity to toast to your successes, reflect on your MBA experience and transformation, and receive advice from faculty and other women leaders on managing career success post-business school.
Goizueta LeadHERship Workshops
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Life Design for the Modern MBA
An intimate event to discuss the career impacts women face when balancing career and family and strategies to manage both successfully. -
Building Wealth
A workshop that addresses financial planning issues unique to professional women such as pre-nuptial agreements, childcare and educational savings, compensation packages, and more.
Organizations & Resources
Better Together
At Goizueta, we believe that a woman's place is in leadership. You'll gain access to these and other organizations and resources that help get you there and support you along the way.
Graduate Women in Business (GWIB) offers professional and personal development opportunities. You'll meet like-minded, accomplished women and allies who seek growth beyond the classroom. Through GWIB-sponsored networking, speakers, social events, community service and communication, you'll foster relationships within and beyond Emory. And with each activity, you'll develop not only your community, but also your contribution to others.
Women in Power. Women Empowered.
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Conveying Competence and Credibility
Women report that an MBA education greatly improves their comfort level with risk and ambiguity—cornerstones of the corner office. You will earn a credential which helps you convey competence and credibility and gives you the confidence required to take on business challenges. And long-term, the salary rewards of an MBA career path are substantial, enabling a secure future for you and those who depend on you. -
Reaching a Higher Standard
Goizueta Business School can help you reach a higher standard. Students at Goizueta benefit from both a rigorous education and small class size, and our cohort structure and team assignments ensure that you maximize peer-to-peer learning from a diverse and talented class, with whom you will examine real-world situations brought in directly by Atlanta's Fortune 500 executives. -
Tapping into a Community of Support
Access to faculty and personal career coaches ensure you are able to translate lessons from the classroom to value-added for your company or future employer. The involvement of peers, faculty, and staff—along with a strong network of dedicated alumni—provides you with a personalized advisory board for your academic and career success. We invite you to get to know Goizueta, and all we have to offer.
Voices of Goizueta
Rosemary and John Brown Family Scholars Program
Merit-Based Scholarship
This $5 million scholarship endowment is open to graduates of Spelman College and Agnes Scott College who are accepted into a Goizueta graduate program. Scholarships are merit-based. Brown Family Scholars admitted into any of Goizueta’s graduate programs will benefit from small-by-design program classes known for a collaborative culture and highly experiential learning model. This will help scholars to formally build camaraderie and continue with mentoring and networking during the remainder of their studies.
Featured Faculty
Goizueta Endowed Chair in Electronic Commerce and Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management
Associate Professor of Organization & Management; Faculty Advisor, Business & Society Institute
Professor of Organization & Management; Academic Director, The Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Associate Professor in the Practice of Accounting; Associate Dean and Academic Director for Master in Management
