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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2005--The Simmons College Board of Trustees has appointed Deborah Merrill-Sands, a recognized authority on women and leadership, as the dean of the Simmons School of Management in Boston, the world's only business school specifically designed for women.

Merrill-Sands, widely cited as an expert on issues relating to women's success in the workplace, assumes the new role following a year as acting dean and a number of years in various leadership positions at the School of Management (SOM). She replaces Patricia O'Brien, who joined Harvard College last year as deputy dean.

The School of Management (www.simmons.edu/som) is a unique school recognized as a national center for women, leadership, and management.

The School of Management was founded in 1973 by two female Harvard Business School professors who decried the classroom focus solely on men as business leaders. Today, SOM programs include undergraduate management and MBA programs that emphasize leadership, and offer a rigorous business curriculum combined with behavioral courses that address the effects of gender on leadership, communication, and management. Its new entrepreneurship initiative educates women from numerous disciplines who want to launch or improve their own business.