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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year).

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CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical

Harvard Business Review

The stock market had more than doubled in the previous five years , and the unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. ” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career. Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical?

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. Board service has always been very demanding. increased by over $300,000.

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What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When an Economic Crisis Hits

Harvard Business Review

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder of the India-based Infosys, saw his company’s market value on NASDAQ drop 90% from 2000 to 2001. Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. It’s true of all commodity markets. Fear beats greed.