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Women on Business
JANUARY 17, 2011
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. One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 26, 2016
At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. One executive was particularly enthusiastic. “We 500 company.
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Women on Business
JANUARY 23, 2011
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. Encouraging our peers every step of the way.
Women on Business
JANUARY 26, 2011
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. I volunteered to be the “lucky&# laid off executive and have never looked back. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2016
More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2014
Even one ineffective executive weakens a firm’s ability to address big problems. But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2012
They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. But nobody believes that about stock prices anymore, and so executives are back to balancing competing interests — this time short-term traders vs. long-term shareholders. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere."
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