The Search for Gender Equity in Executive Committees
Each year global consulting firm 20-first evaluates the success of the Top 100 companies from three key regions of the globe—the US, Europe and Asia—on what it views as a [...]
The Changing Face of The Client Base
Turn on the news in any given week and you’re bound to hear one report or another about the changing socio-economic face of American society. Changes range from shifts in [...]
WE Interviews: Michelle R. Seitz
Michelle R. Seitz CEO William Blair Investment Management Michelle R. Seitz, CEO of William Blair Investment Management, decided the financial services industry was for her the moment she visited a [...]
Motherhood And Money Management—Mutually Exclusive?
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones certainly knows how to get a conversation going. During a question and answer session at symposium at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of [...]
WE Interviews: Linda Gibson
Linda Gibson, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Distribution at Old Mutual Asset Management The old adage, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity,” seems tailor-made [...]
WE Interviews: Helena Morrissey
Helena Morrissey Former CEO of Newton Investment Management Earlier this year a quiet victory occurred for women in the workplace. On April 17, 2012, the mining company Fresnillo announced that [...]
The Power of Habit: Turning Stress into Perseverance
In this age of hyper-connectivity, constant pressure, long workdays and growing complexity, stress is unavoidable. What separates those who thrive under pressure from those who crumble is how they cope [...]
The Pink Ghetto? Get P&L Experience.
Courtesy of Harvard Business Review When I recently interviewed Maliz Beams, CEO of ING retirement, I was impressed with her intelligent and powerful advice for emerging executive women. One [...]
Smart Women Create Strong Companies
According to research conducted by both Catalyst and McKinsey & Company, businesses with gender diversity in their senior management have a higher return on investment than companies with few or [...]
Why Sponsorship Matters
Co-Opting the Old Boy’s Club Ilene H. Lang, president and CEO of Catalyst, made a surprising statement in the Harvard Business Review: “Catalyst has advised companies for decades on how [...]