Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I sure that most of us are aware of the current studies that prove that having a diverse board (at least 30% women representation) contributes directly to a company’s performance. The opportunity to network and leverage relationships with other board members who can potentially help you advance your career and broaden your influence.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

This is very true as it relates to organizations that are working to increase gender diversity at the leadership levels. Advocacy is what makes the “world go round&# so to speak as we observe how individuals rise through their careers. Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Resetting and rebalancing life and career is on many people’s minds during a pandemic. Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment. Leadership for Tomorrow. ” -Jonas Altman.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Periodically, they overhaul their structure, add new positions and assign new/diverse responsibilities to people. I sometimes wonder about an organization with a loose and nimble structure with a solid work-flow and technologies that enable such an efficient work-flow. Most re-orgs I have seen don’t produce results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We found that while people understood our vision, they worried about their careers and what would happen to their long-term health and investment programs. Find ways to have fun.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Diversity and inclusion. But hiring a more diverse workforce is only half the equation. This is where inclusivity comes in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

” “EHS director with 20 years of experience driving regulatory compliance and employees’ health and safety across industries—manufacturing, retail, and healthcare. The marketing executive began her summary with “pharmaceutical”—the one industry she’s worked in throughout her career.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement. He offered an example: “I recently recruited a VP Sales and Marketing from a well-known consumer technology company to be the president and COO of a small but fast-growing smart-grid consumer technology-products company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. We found, alas, that FOB boards trailed behind non-FOB boards on diversity. Director Profiles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. ” In other words, training divorced from excellence is mere compliance. I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

A lot has changed in the banking industry since the crisis in 2008 , especially in terms of regulation and compliance. Most of the leading financial institutions are still led by career bankers — in some cases the same people who led these institutions through the crisis.

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