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

Women on Business

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% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% 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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Wise Economic Decision Making

Coaching Tip

Exercising creative thinking and discretionary behavior could be the basis for wise decision making for their stakeholders. . In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 17, 2011. CEOs across the country want to make sure the economy is growing robustly before they commit to new hiring.

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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. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach.

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? Mahesh Rao, a dynamic, creative, and highly-skilled executive consultant with more than 20 years of business experience, holds 14 US and international patents. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. About the Author.

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Cambridge, U.K.