Mind and Hand Associates, LLC

Margaret Andrews is the founder of Mind and Hand Associates and brings over twenty years of professional experience - both in the business world and in higher education - to the firm.  She is also Associate Dean of Management Programs at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education, where she has responsibility for over 5,000 course takers, 700 degree candidates and 100 instructors.  In addition to directing the program, she teaches courses in management and organizational behavior.  Prior to launching Mind and Hand Associates, Margaret held a variety of senior management positions and conducted strategy and marketing projects in a number of industries.

From 1999-2006, Margaret was Executive Director at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she managed the MBA program, Admissions, Student Affairs, Career Development, Marketing, Alumni Relations, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. She has also been the Managing Vice President for Strategy and Marketing at Eduventures and Vice President of Marketing at Putnam Investments, as well as a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) and a CPA at Deloitte & Touche. She has also served on the MIT undergraduate admissions committee.

Margaret has conducted higher education work across the globe. She is frequently quoted on developments in the higher education market, and has been interviewed in the national and international media, including CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Boston Globe, Nikkei Business, The Financial Times, and The Times of India. She has also been a guest columnist for The Economic Times Online (part of the Times of India) and presented at the Graduate Management Admission Council industry conference, The AACSB Dean's Conference, The American Marketing Association's Symposium on The Marketing of Higher Education, and The Future of Higher Education conference. Margaret is a former Board member for Bottom Line, a nonprofit organization that works with first generation and low socioeconomic youths to get them into and graduated from college.

Margaret hails from California and has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a graduate of the MIT Sloan MBA Program where she was named a Seley Scholar, the school's highest honor.

Marie Eiter has extensive experience in formulating strategies and implementing programs in management education and leadership development. From 2001-2006 Marie was Executive Director of Executive Education at the MIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT, she was responsible for the development and management of open-enrollment and custom-designed programs that provide executives and their firms with leading-edge business knowledge enabling them to remain competitive in an economy driven by increasing technological and social complexity. During her tenure as Executive Director, Sloan’s ranking in custom executive education went from unranked to #6 in the Financial Times Annual Survey. During the same period revenues increased 300%. In 2007, Marie became Senior Director responsible for business development.

Previous to her appointment at MIT, she served as Director of Executive Education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Previous to that, Marie was Vice President and Manager of Executive Development for JP Morgan Chase for more than ten years, where she had worldwide responsibility for the development of Chase senior vice presidents and general managers.

Marie serves as an advisor to line managers and human resources managers on management education and leadership development programs. Her chapter “Best Practices in Leadership Development: Lessons from the Best Business Schools and Corporate Universities” was published in The Principal Challenge: Leading and Managing Schools in an Era of Accountability, Jossey-Bass, 2002.