Posted in International, Leadership, Women in Business on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. The official Nobel press release is viewable here. Forbes has two excellent articles on Elinor Ostrom’s impact on the world:
Why Elinor Ostrom Matters – This article reflects on applications of her studies in cooperative arrangements, also known as “The Commons.”
Elinor [...]
Posted in Leadership, Women in Business, work-Life Balance on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CNN Money posted “How High-Achieving Women Balance Work and Family” this past Monday. The article features perspectives on work-life balance in high-achievement positions from Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook), Carol Bartz (CEO, Yahoo), and Jean Jackson (Direct-to-Consumer President, Nike).
Posted in Leadership, Politics, Women in Business, tagged business, forbes, Politics, ranking, women, women in leadership on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One week ago, Forbes.com released its annual World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List. Forbes discusses the ranking method on the report’s front page:
Forbes’ Power Women list isn’t about celebrity or popularity; it’s about influence. Queen Rania of Jordan (No. 76), for instance, is perhaps the most listened-to woman in the Middle East; her Twitter [...]
Posted in Leadership, Lists, Women in Business on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a special section on “The 50 Women to Watch 2008″ which is also available online. It’s not a big surprise that the top woman to watch is Sheila Bair, Chairwoman of the FDIC. The online version has additional features, such as a video of Madeleine Albright speaking about women and [...]
Posted in Aside from Business, Branding & Marketing, Business Ethics, Leadership, Politics, Principled Leadership, Women in Business, work-Life Balance on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been able to catch up on my blogs today, and wanted to put together some interesting, if topically disparate, posts that I came across:
Web 2.0 applications are coming, going, and denting companies’ reputations. See “Losing Face,” about how British Airways and Virgin Atlantic were dinged by their employee’s posts on Facebook, and then [...]
Posted in Leadership, Politics, Women in Business on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s edition of Newsweek has a special section titled “Women & Leadership” which features 11 interviews with women in leadership positions. The list is pretty varied and includes Tyra Banks, Barbara Walters, and Dara Torres. They have also made available footage featuring Sarah Palin speaking at a form on women in leadership that Newsweek [...]
Posted in Featured Item of the Week, Leadership, Politics on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cover story from the latest edition of Newsweek, “From Seneca Falls to . . . Sarah Palin?”, is an interesting and insightful piece on whether or not women voters will be swayed by McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his VP candidate. Since there’s been so much talk about it recently, especially on the [...]
Posted in Leadership, Lists, Women in Business on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Forbes has released its annual list of the 100 Most Powerful Women, which you can view online here. There are also two articles that accompany the list, one about Condoleezza Rice and her role (soon to be legacy) in international politics, the other about Dominique Senequier, on her success as head of the private equity [...]
Posted in Featured Item of the Week, Leadership, Women in Business on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday’s Financial Times (UK version) has an article, “An MBA with the Glass Ceiling in its Sights”, highlighting the Simmons School of Management program. The article discusses the program’s focus on women in business, as well as the charge that such a program does not prepare women for the business world at large–where women [...]
