History

The annual Reaching Out MBA educational, networking, and recruiting conference was founded in 1999 by the LGBT student organizations at Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management.

It has been held in:

• Boston
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco

And organized by students at:

• Georgetown - McDonough
• George Washington
• UVA - Darden
• Berkeley - Haas
• Stanford
• Columbia
• Harvard
• Kellogg
• MIT - Sloan
• NYU - Stern
• Cornell - Johnson School
• Purdue
• Thunderbird
• Tuck
• UCLA - Anderson
• USC - Marshall
• Wharton
• Yale
• Chicago - GSB

Since its inception, the Reaching Out LGBT MBA Student Conference has grown to be a true world-class event:

• Over 850 attendees from the United States, Canada, Asia, Latin America, and Europe
• Sponsorship by the top global firms from every major industry
• Panels and keynotes comprised of “A-list” business and community leaders, and
• A results-oriented recruiting fair that introduces the best LGBT MBA talent to sponsoring firms

In 2004, Reaching Out MBA, Inc. was recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation by the Internal Revenue Service. In 2005, Reaching Out MBA, Inc. formed an expanded board of directors and supported student efforts to produce a conference in November that would better align with the corporate recruiting cycle.