Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

By Bonnie Marcus This past week I had the opportunity to not only attend the MA Conference for Women, but also to participate in a leadership panel about women and corporate board positions. In summary, a seat at the table can help you in your own career efforts. The opportunity to give back to your community. Post by Jane K.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Following are the simple instructions to participate: Please complete the questionnaire when you have 10 minutes of uninterrupted time. All participants who provide an email address will receive synopsis of what women are saying, at the end of the project. The goal is to get a response from 1,500 women over the next 90 days.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Being able to effectively support entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs is increasingly important as more and more of us have taken the entrepreneurial career path during the pandemic. Central to this has been the “I am an entrepreneur” program that aimed to promote entrepreneurship education in schools across the country.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed. She believes there is more to her company than money.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

I was in a meeting the other day, when one of the participants received a call from a journalist looking for women business owners who were having trouble accessing credit. In addition, several entrepreneurs have told me about how their relationship with their banker has enabled them to keep or increase their lines of credit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 2: My alumni association maintains a career group within Linkedin, and the quality and quantity of questions and answers posted keep me abreast of new developments, trends, and geo-specific information. He found me through his network, contacted me through Facebook, and we started and completed a project for him.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Our work will focus on the potential benefits of better management practices across the NHS, education and local government. The inaugural conference last year was full of brilliant insights from so many great speakers and participants – and will be a great forum to discuss how we can drive gender equality forwards. Don’t miss out!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them. When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.”

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Keep your local community close and participate - not out of selfish intent but rather out of the joy of being with others who speak your language. Sometimes only another artist knows what yet another artist is talking about!

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. These allow you to work towards something specific in your career whether that’s a better job role or a project that inspires you.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

We often hear about the power of personality, and how some traits are beneficial for our careers while others are more harmful. But it is less clear when these personality traits matter most for our careers — are they more important earlier on, or in the middle?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. Here I'll just add a couple thoughts.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. My mind is racing around between what I've been a part of over the last two years in social media and the participants in the story. Take "reality TV" (please).

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“This has an impact on the education that children receive.” ” This concerning trend carries potential implications for educational achievement, as the study highlights that schools categorized as being in “special measures” are less likely to have male classroom teachers.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. In other words, instead of viewing this as something to be kept under her control, she reaches out the parents to help participate in succeeding to reach a goal they both share – of helping their child learn how to read.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

While I don’t think a business will perish if it does not blog, I wholeheartedly believe a business will clearly fail to maximize its full potential without leveraging the significant benefits that blogging affords to those who do choose to participate.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Unfortunately, though, it would seem that the majority of businesses, educational institutions, and other organizations have yet to recognize this truth. It has always been about making the space bigger so that more people can participate. The colour of my skin is merely what I am, not who I am. The list is endless.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

are making a choice that will shape the rest of their lives: which career to pursue after graduation. Yet these career choices affect not only the students themselves but also the rest of society. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. So many sharp talented business people lose by trusting the wrong people or don’t provide an educated guidance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Even more worrisome has been the decline, since 2001, in the share of teens participating in the labor force. Now city and state leaders hope to use summer jobs programs to provide meaningful employment experiences that can improve teens’ job readiness and financial skills and boost their academic and career aspirations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. Do alumni return frequently to participate in events and activities at the school?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. For academics, publishing and obtaining grants are key to promotion and career advancement. Commonly, researchers develop a theory, then build a career gathering support for it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. Women who have benefited from education and mentoring are experiencing "capital punishment."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Consider two men with the same education, place of residence, and family background. By 2020 the company expects that 10,000 teens and young adults will have participated in TWA. Screening In for Aptitude.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It’s exciting to consider all the ways our lives may improve, from managing our calendars to making medical diagnoses, but it’s scary to consider the social and personal implications — and particularly the implications for our careers. Consultants, too, can only experience so many company transformations over their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

I started out in finance but then…”. We become expert at explaining job transitions, major career pivots, and even our school-to-career path. Participants receive a handout with three headings: Education, Work & Volunteer Experience, and Skills & Abilities. So, what if you backdated your resume?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Would you hire a surgeon who wasn’t trained in medicine or delegate a major financial investment decision to someone who hadn’t studied finance? Studies we’ve conducted at Egon Zehnder also show that most corporate directors have participated in no previous CEO succession, or just in one. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. The participants were American women whose racial and ethnic identity was African American/black, Asian American, Latin/Hispanic, or any combination of these races and ethnicities. How People Get Ahead.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. According to Jason Tyszko , Vice President, Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

We worked with five cities tackling seemingly intractable challenges such as urban revitalization in Detroit and education and health in Newark. One promising example here, however, is StriveTogether ’s Theory of Action for bringing about large-scale change in education, from cradle to career.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2019

.” The challenge is compounded by the fact that those who are most at risk of disruption are also those least engaged with training and education. The report cites statistics showing that just half of adults from poorer backgrounds have had any training since leaving full-time education. Reaching the cliff edge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While others on the leadership team — and even your peers — may exert some influence on your career future, it’s your direct supervisor who can pull the strings to either grant or deny your chance for advancement. One person stands between you and your next raise or promotion: your boss.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Cross-Functional Collaboration Encourage collaboration between HR, finance, and departmental leaders to collectively design and review the compensation system. Gender is not the only discriminating divide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. Particularly if mom and dad have retired young and aren’t modeling a more “normal” working life, kids may be confused about what their own career trajectory should look like. Foster a stewardship mindset.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. Meetings can be very powerful tools, but you have to plan them out long before they happen. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting.

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