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 fact, companies with more female representation, outperform companies don’t have women.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. Don’t miss out!

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Moreover, it poses a challenge to the government’s aim of meeting recruitment targets in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly subjects such as physics and mathematics, which heavily rely on the expertise of male teachers. Of course, necessity often prompts change.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We recommend you pilot each element of your program, from the sign-in sheet to the evaluation form to the website where participants enroll in the program. Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

After studying meetings of various sizes, researchers have concluded that the optimal number of participants is seven or eight — small enough for good discussions, but large enough for a diversity of opinions. The Board Had No Finance Committee. But GE was late in freezing its DB plan and failed to adequately fund it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Smart cities have become more intricate ecosystems over time, with the degree and mix of private-sector participation varying from city to city. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Low diversity could be a result of bias in hiring, unfair recruiting criteria, insufficient diversity in recruitment sources, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Much is being written about the impact that new communication technologies and channels (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) have on traditional marketing. In theory, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blogs should make it possible to engage their customers in new and diverse ways. to participate and share details of their daily activities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The event, geared toward students (from HBS and elsewhere), was sober about the challenges facing the continent, and it was stuffed with speakers and participants who are trying to turn it around. In the weeks to come, we will present several passionate and diverse voices we encountered at the event.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It can also help you encounter diverse perspectives, develop your empathy, find areas of growth, improve your people skills, and make you a more balanced individual overall. This aspect can boost your resume, that is true, but it can also be personally rewarding to make a change and help your community develop into the best version of itself.

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HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

Changing technology and a dismal job and economic scenario have forced many companies to tighten their budgetary belt. It is the mid-segment executives that were handling the finance, accounting, sales, and administrative jobs that are finding themselves left out in the cold with applications softwares taking over their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. Apollo Hospitals focuses on medical service delivery through a geographically diverse network of CSCs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Participation in money laundering that helps drug smugglers or terrorists. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. Manipulation of energy markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Open innovation strategies can be highly effective in this regard, because they help to expose the problem to diverse skill domains.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It’s a situation that the EU’s European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is hoping to improve after it was awarded a 25% increase in its budget by the European Commission, in part to address the east-west entrepreneurial divide.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

An example of the importance of flexibility would be that when staff are highly motivated and competent, a combination of highly delegatory and moderate participative styles of leadership would be most appropriate. Leaders must employ a combination of leadership styles depending on the situation. Thanks again for sharing Dan.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you want your B2B content to be great, invite your community to participate. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing. If we build it, they will come" is the biggest marketing mistake. But yes, they do!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. Why does all this matter?

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