Lake Forest MBA Community and Giving
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management was originally founded through a partnership of leading Chicago area businesses with a common goal of providing practical business management skills to their employees. Since our founding we have strengthened and expanded our ties to the business community with both deeper and additional corporate and organizational affiliations. We call this our Leadership Learning Community.
Each year we award our Distinguished Executive Award to a leading Chicago area business executive. The DEA award recipient then delivers the keynote address at our Commencement ceremony. To read about our 2008 DEA recipients, click on the link to the upper right above.
Participants in our Leadership Learning Community include our students, staff, faculty, alumni, Board of Directors, donors, scholarship founders, corporate sponsors, Lake Forest Corporate Education clients, MBA program campus hosts, MBA program on-site sponsors, and friends of the School – to name just a few.
Partner organizations in our Leadership Learning Community include:
Abbott Laboratories
Ace Hardware Corporation
Allstate Insurance Company
Baxter Credit Union
Baxter International, Inc.
Brunswick Corporation
CDW
Deere & Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Grainger
Heisler Gordon & Associates
Hollister, Inc.
Hospira
HSBC
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
Jones Lang LaSalle
Komatsu America Corporation
Kraft Foods Inc.
Laurus Technologies
Motorola, Inc.
Peoples Energy
Simonton Windows
True Value Company
Trustmark Insurance
Walgreens
W.E. O’Neil
WMS Gaming