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

Women on Business

of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent working paper , currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. an estimated $100 billion per year. Pessimism rules, but it needn''t be that way.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. The winners.

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