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 [...]
Women entrepreneurs are coming into their own, there’s no denying it. According to a recent FOX Business report, nearly half of all new businesses in this country are launched by [...]
Reading through contemporary leadership materials, one can easily begin to feel as though the key to success as a leader is little more than a numbers game. The literature is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this year, Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman released figures from a 2011 survey they conducted of 7,280 leaders from both public and private organizations. They write: “At every level, [...]
Women, Risk, and Wall Street When Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, a bestseller detailing the 2008 Financial Crisis, was asked to share the one thing he’d do in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
