Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. percent of executive positions at Fortune 500 companies and 16.6 housing finance system since it was created more than 40 years ago (More about Mary at the end of this post). About the Author: Mary K.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. So, how does a business build competitive advantage by becoming the preferred provider to the markets it serves? You may decide to transfer to another position within the company.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

How do you use your résumé to tell stories that match those new positions’ requirements? You can have a foundational version that compellingly articulates your most important information, but you may have to alter it, perhaps only slightly, for each position you’re applying for. into multiple global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Here are three ways that clients in my practice have reappraised their stress and used it to propel positive changes: Reconceive essential relationships. As he did so, his stress evaporated and he led the executive team to take a bold step toward expanding the business into a complex but potentially lucrative overseas market.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” And believe me Woo does not like being given any information that is not extremely positive. A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Some pundits posit a polarizing argument about the prospects for work-life integration between Princeton's Anne-Marie Slaughter and Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg. This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. Slaughter went public with her decision to leave a top-ranking U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. Our president also now handles the negotiations with our IT providers, and our COO fully manages the compliance process and the preparation for marketing presentations. Would I begin to feel obsolete?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Among the 75% of employees with disabilities who say they have market-worthy ideas, 48% say their ideas went ignored by people with the power to act on them, 57% feel stalled in their careers, and 47% feel they would never achieve a position of power at their company, no matter how high-performing or qualified they are.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But our work with a community of senior executives in the Bay Area suggests that today’s market leaders are following the advice of Yogi Berra: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” The market for cardless payments is growing rapidly, posing a threat to Visa’s core business. Size and speed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

About 75% will receive offers for permanent positions, and company data shows that employees brought in through TWA stay twice as long as their peers. relies on TWA to teach job readiness and life skills to teens and young adults from low-income communities while also generating proven talent pipeline and business benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Here too is a marketable skill that social enterprises can offer to employees who expect to someday return to the for-profit world. Or Paul Steele, once a senior executive at PepsiCo International who subsequently served as chief operating officer of the World Wildlife Federation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Take, for example, the chief executive of a Midwest industrial company I worked with. His organization had been struggling for four years with an initiative to expand into a middle market, where the customer base was attractive but much smaller than the company's traditional one. The CEO was convinced he should pull the plug.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. I laughed at that one.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

“EQ has quickly become a global movement that’s helping companies large and small rebuild trust internally to make its employees happier and more productive, which in turn impacts the overall ROI,” said Joshua Freedman, chief operating officer for Six Seconds and the chairman of NexusEQ, a global conference taking place this summer at Harvard. “We

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