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:

Berkeley-Haas Stanford Columbia
Harvard Kellogg MIT-Sloan
NYU - Stern Cornell - Johnson School Purdue
Thunderbird Tuck UCLA-Anderson
USC - Marshall Wharton Yale
Chicago - GSB

For more information regarding past conferences, please click here.

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

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.