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To Succeed in Tech, Women Need More Visibility

Harvard Business Review

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. These women often are less satisfied with their careers , perceive that they are unlikely to advance at their current organizations, or believe they must change jobs in order to reach the next level.

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Why Women Aren’t Making It to the Top of Financial Services Firms

Harvard Business Review

Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. Women are far more likely than men to leave the industry or to reduce their level of ambition just at the point in their careers when they need to make the effort to push on to the top. financial firms are women.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

While every CEO is forced to work through organizational change, many will tell you that of all their duties, change management scares them the most, because nearly every aspect of a company and its leadership is tested. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Its CEO (John Y.