Supplier Development

San Jose, CA - Spring, 4-day session
Los Angeles, CA - Fall, 10-day session
Available to MBEs/WBEs/DVBEs
Scholarships or special AT&T preferred rate
Contact: Hasmik Stepanian, UCLA, 310-794- 6346
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The Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) Program, offered by the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, enables entrepreneurs and managers to develop essential management skills and strengthen their ability to build effective and profitable organizations. An intensive certificate program, MDE provides participants with instruction in up-to-the-minute theory and practice in areas such as strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and management. All MDE courses are taught by award-winning faculty who teach Anderson's top-ranked MBA programs. In addition to a varied curriculum of lectures, case discussions, and applied workshops, participants receive individual consultative assistance and work closely with faculty to confront issues facing today's growing enterprises. Students are entrepreneurs/executives in existing businesses that are positioned for growth. Most entrepreneurs have been in business a minimum of three to five years, with revenues of approximately $1 million.

5 day, on-campus management program
Session held in June
Available to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) only
Tuition approximately $4000
Several scholarships available through AT&T
Contact: Steven Sims, NMSDC, 212-944-2430

The Advanced Management Education Program is a customized executive program offered by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. It is designed to provide certified, established, expansion-oriented MBEs with the tools and skills needed to achieve and sustain accelerated growth. The program instills NMSDC's institutional knowledge of corporations and procurement practices into a curriculum that is focused on the most managerially relevant topics to MBEs. The program topics include: growth-oriented strategies, improving leadership and management skills, self-assessments and new business opportunities. The scholarship includes tuition, materials, lodging and meals. Applicants should be MBE owners/CEOs whose businesses are at least three years old, with sales of over $5 million for manufacturing and distribution firms and at least $3 million for service firms. In addition, firms must be recommended by an NMSDC National Corporate Member or a local member in conjunction with the Regional Council to be considered for the limited number of seats in each class.

5 day, on-campus session
Two programs: Building a High-Performing Minority Business, and Growing the Minority Business to Scale
Sessions held Spring, Summer and Fall
Available to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) only
Tuition approximately $4500
Several scholarships available through AT&T
Contact: Paula Graves, 603-646-3740
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The Minority Business Executive Program has been offered by the Tuck School of Business since 1980. Touted as the nation's first minority business executive program, the Tuck minority business programs now have almost 4,400 program graduates. Tuck has received many accolades for its high-quality, high-impact, intensive learning experiences, helping business owners master the up-to-date business skills they need to compete. This is a 5-day, on campus executive management program for minority business owners and key officers. Applicants for Building a High-Performing Minority Business should be MBE presidents or senior officers, with businesses three to five years old and at least in $300,000 in annual sales. Applicants for Growing the Minority Business to Scale should be owners or executives of minority owned companies with five to ten years of business experience, who have already attended the Building a High-Performing Minority Business program (or equivalent) and whose businesses are poised for growth.

5 day, on-campus session
One program
Session held in October
Available to WBENC-certified WBEs only
Tuition approximately $5000
Several scholarships available through AT&T
Contact: Betty Cole, 202-872-5515, x5518
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The Tuck-WBENC Executive Program is an intensive five-day executive development program for WBENC-certified women business enterprises (WBEs). This general management program is designed to help WBEs that are beyond the startup phase to assess, improve and grow their businesses. The program is an intensive learning experience that focuses primarily on increasing the competitive advantage and robustness of the participant’s own business. Tuck is the nation’s oldest graduate school of business and renowned for the quality of its teaching and the degree to which it fosters collaborative learning, inclusion and community. Applicants must be WBENC-certified owners with three-to-five years of experience running a business and have in excess of $300,000 in sales.

5 day, on-campus seminar
Session held in June
Available to Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) only
Several scholarships available through AT&T
Contact: Dr. Floyd Rose, 608-241-5858

The Business Management Seminar (BMS) is a week-long conference designed with minority business owners and executives in mind. The BMS is sponsored by Business Management Seminar, Inc. in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin Small Business Development Center. Its purpose is to help minority entrepreneurs become more competitive and successful in the free enterprise system. Business theory and practical application are integrated into a core curriculum taught by some of the country’s most distinguished business faculty and practitioners. This five-day educational experience provides a program to enhance the management expertise of minority owners and executives. Additionally, the program will help increase entrepreneurial success, provide networking and interaction with owners/executives and educators, and generate cognizance and interest by public-and private-sector patrons regarding minority business ownership and operation in the United States.

8 half-day classes
Sessions held Spring and Fall
Available to MBE/WBE/DVBE businesses
Several scholarships available through AT&T
Contact: Bernard Meineke, 404-413-7830

FastTrac® GrowthVenture™ is a ten-module, 40+ hour, educational program created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, designed to help them analyze their entire business. FastTrac GrowthVenture's hands-on program uses the entrepreneur's business as a case study, giving them the opportunity to put proven business practices to work for their own ventures. Students review all aspects of their business and write a new business plan to address present and future needs and to help them manage the company on a daily basis. Students also learn to identify competition and how to address it, as well as legal aspects associated with operating a business. Students learn with a group of peers, working with certified facilitators, people with real entrepreneurial business experience, who understand the challenges of operating and growing entrepreneurial business ventures. In this supportive environment, students incubate new business ideas, uncover areas that need reinforcing, and establish a foundation from which to make future decisions.

All contract/purchasing managers receive mandatory supplier diversity training. The AT&T Supplier Diversity team works with Strategic Sourcing Managers to help them increase supplier diversity participation within the products and services they procure for the company. Our Supplier Diversity Web sites are also a ready source of information about our programs, providing program history and facts, spending results, key initiatives, supplier referrals, outreach event calendar, and much more. Supplier diversity commitments are included in contract managers' performance appraisals.