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

Women on Business

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. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1%

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

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.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! Synchronicity is such a blessing!

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  Nancy is a fabulous career coach who focuses on moms who want to get back into their careers. .    One of my vivid memories of the past 10 years was my first visit to New York City about four years after 9/11. 

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August

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For Corporate Cosmopolitanism, Start at the Top

Harvard Business Review

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% of the top 200 managers in the firms sampled came from a set of 16 emerging markets where the firms intended to generate 35% of their growth over the next 5 years.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We should follow the example of Antonio Lucio, chief marketing officer of Visa. and public opinion.”

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