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

Women on Business

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4%

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How to Bring Apple's Overseas Cash Hoard Home

Harvard Business Review

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 GDP and corporate taxes 6%; in the third quarter of 2011, profits were up to 13.1% quarterly dividend and buy back a lot of shares). Which isn't what the citizens of the U.S. (or

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

He explains, “It becomes increasingly important to have those strategic conversations with your CFO, investor relations teams, government affairs teams, strategy and corporate development teams and all key stakeholders…” It’s particularly important to seek out perspectives from people with informal or emerging power.

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