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“This is the crime of the century: Women get to the top, and then they are murdered in cold blood. People are talking about the murders, but nobody is doing a Joe Friday-style investigation into who the perps might be. I want to know who or what is killing the great women of the corporate world? The clues lie deeper than the misuse of strategy, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Women in Business

In virtually every sphere, says Andrew Hacker, women and men are moving further apart.

Content: Article | Author: A.J. Vogl | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Women in Business

It is common knowledge that managers have to build strong networks of personal relationships to accomplish their business goals, and that the general rule is to build for diversity. But not all networking structures are created equal according to University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor of sociology and strategy Ronald S. Burt. In his 1997 report “The Gender of Social Capital,” Burt finds … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ronald S. Burt | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

More and more women are abandoning big companies to strike out on their own.

Content: Article | Author: Laurel Delaney | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Women in Business

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Here are the five naked truths about women in business. Together they add up to one big message: The future of business depends on women.

Content: Article | Author: Margaret Heffernan | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Women in Business

It’s your moment. You have 10 minutes to wow a captive audience of venture capitalists. How do you make the most of that time? If you’re one of the 23 women entrepreneurs recruited by Springboard Enterprises, you spend five grueling weeks in the nonprofit’s boot camp crafting the perfect pitch.

Find out what A.G. Breitenstein and two other female entrepreneurs discovered about themselves and their … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Susan Greco | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Women in Business

Gender impacts wage, as many studies have proven. But Professors Marta Elvira and Mary Graham take that fact one step further and ask why. In this recent research, they consider the degree of formalization of the pay type, exploring the link between numbers of men and women in a job and the level of earnings. Discover the direct implications for the design of pay structures … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Marta Elvira, Mary Graham | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Women in Business

Janet Hanson, 14-year veteran of Goldman Sachs and founder of investment advisory firm Milestone Capital, described her rocky but ultimately victorious road to success at the Wharton Women in Business Conference held earlier this month. Later in the day a panel of women in international management positions talked about the cultural challenges that still confront businesswomen both here and abroad.

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Women in Business

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It was another promise of the new economy: We’d finally move from the old-time rules of the old boys’ network to a workplace based on merit, performance, and skill — a workplace that would be more open to women. Forget about breaking the glass ceiling, the logic went, the new economy would break out of the whole box. That was the promise. Just how well … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: People, Women in Business

Article takes a look at the results of a Harwich Group study of executive men and women that found significant differences in the perspectives men and women have towards female corporate leaders. Also offered are a few suggestions that women executives feel need to be done within Corporate America.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas M. Murphy | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business

Male-led organizations will benefit from adopting structures and strategies similar to those now being created by women entrepreneurs that are sensitive to their employees ever-developing sense of how to make their careers and personal lives more compatible.

Content: Article | Author: Stacey van Hooven | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business

Content: Book | Authors: Margaret Corcoran, Roger E. Axtell, Tami Briggs | Subjects: International, Women in Business

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Global women leaders or global women managers? Women in leadership positions in the political arena around the world challenge not only leadership and management theories but also question the need to make a distinction between leaders and managers as well as the validity of such a distinction. Their paths to power are as varied as their socio-economic, educational, religious and family backgrounds as well as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Karin Klenke | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business

Earning Differences Between Women and Men is a report from the US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau. This short report is peppered with charts and graphs from government agencies including the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report explains that the wage gap still exists, with men earning on average 23.5 percent more than women. While the wage gap is shrinking, it … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau | Subjects: Demographics, Women in Business

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Twenty-five years after women first started pouring into the labor force–and trying to be more like men in every way, from wearing power suits to picking up golf clubs–new research is showing that men ought to be the ones doing more of the imitating…That’s the essential finding of a growing number of comprehensive management studies conducted by consultants across the country…By and large, the studies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rochelle Sharpe | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Women in Business

The Harvard Business School presents Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age. This manuscript collection, housed at the Harvard’s Baker Library, was extensively researched and surveyed in May 1999. Along with detailed descriptions of the collection, the site also offers a sample of digitized manuscripts. The collection is divided into four major categories: Women at Work, Women in Business, Women as … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: Baker Library, Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Women in Business