article thumbnail

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

Women on Business

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), 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). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

article thumbnail

Avon CEO Andrea Jung Takes Seat on Apple's Board :: Women on Business

Women on Business

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways. Million; not big, but interesting. This is the tie that binds us and we live it every day.

article thumbnail

VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

CFO 8
article thumbnail

How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010. This now provides its marketing teams globally with predictive decision-making capabilities they never had before. Inside Intel. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

Finance 13
article thumbnail

Talent in China: A Legion of Ambitious, Qualified Women

Harvard Business Review

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. Multinational organizations expanding their presence in China and Chinese companies extending their reach into the global marketplace have a unique opportunity to help China's career women keep their ambitions on course.

Survey 14
article thumbnail

An Investigation of Online Reviews Uncovers a World of Lies

Harvard Business Review

Fortune It was perhaps this summer''s most chilling business story: the suicide of Zurich Insurance Group CFO Pierre Wauthier, who left a note condemning the company''s chair, Josef Ackermann. According to this investigation it can, with overdoses of the drug claiming the lives of more than 1,500 Americans between 2001 and 2010.

Review 8