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

Women on Business

NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Andrea Jung is the first woman and the first Asian to hold a seat on Apple’s board.Â

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. But others know it is not going away and that they have no choice but to transform the company.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” A connected world is a transparent world.