The future is built one innovation at a time, one leader at a time. The Women’s Leadership Forum at HBS Executive Education is designed to enable this future by bringing together an elite group of successful businesswomen to nurture innovation and enhance leadership skills. In this program, you will acquire new strategies for creating environments that foster and sustain innovation. Returning to your organization, you will be prepared to inspire your colleagues, act with confidence, and lead with lasting impact.
What You Can Expect:
Joining an exceptional group of women, you will explore the latest management theories on the ties between innovation and leadership. You will learn how to develop new solutions to the challenges surrounding innovation, while crafting a winning leadership style that works for you.
Your Course of Study:
Through an intensive program that combines lectures, case studies, and group discussion, you will analyze management and leadership challenges and explore topics such as negotiation, the strategic impact of innovation, and moral leadership. Exercises will prompt you to evaluate and enhance your leadership approach while building new skills.
Who Is Right for the Program:
This leadership development program assembles a diverse group of successful women business leaders from around the world, including corporate officers, business owners and entrepreneurs, and nonprofit executives.
Apply online or download an application here
The Women’s Leadership Forum: Innovation Strategies for a Changing World
NewsThe future is built one innovation at a time, one leader at a time. The Women’s Leadership Forum at HBS Executive Education is designed to enable this future by bringing together an elite group of successful businesswomen to nurture innovation and enhance leadership skills. In this program, you will acquire new strategies for creating environments that foster and sustain innovation. Returning to your organization, you will be prepared to inspire your colleagues, act with confidence, and lead with lasting impact.
What You Can Expect:
Joining an exceptional group of women, you will explore the latest management theories on the ties between innovation and leadership. You will learn how to develop new solutions to the challenges surrounding innovation, while crafting a winning leadership style that works for you.
Your Course of Study:
Through an intensive program that combines lectures, case studies, and group discussion, you will analyze management and leadership challenges and explore topics such as negotiation, the strategic impact of innovation, and moral leadership. Exercises will prompt you to evaluate and enhance your leadership approach while building new skills.
Who Is Right for the Program:
This leadership development program assembles a diverse group of successful women business leaders from around the world, including corporate officers, business owners and entrepreneurs, and nonprofit executives.
Apply online or download an application here
In Case You Missed It: News Round-up
NewsIn case you were too busy to have kept up with all the news, contributor Martin Mitchell has gathered some important market events from last week to help you start this week well informed:
Mergers and Acquisitions
The expected deal for Barclays to sell its ETF business, iShares to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners was completed. The $4.2bn deal is the UK’s biggest private equity deal for almost 2 years. Barclays is providing a $3.1bn loan to CVC to facilitate the deal. The agreement is also subject to a ‘go shop’ provision that would allow another bidder to make a higher offer for iShares in the next 45 days if Barclays pays CVC a $175m break fee.
Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian miner has a back-up plan for its deal with Chinese mining group Chinalco. The deal that involves Rio raising $19,5bn by issuing $12.3bn of convertible bonds, plus a $7.2bn asset sale to Chinalco is facing threats from Australian regulators and some shareholders. The back-up is a rights issue of about $10bn, with plans already drawn up with underwriters JPMorgan Cazenove and Credit Suisse.
Innocent, the smoothie drinks group is selling a minority stake to Coca Cola for £30m. The money will be used to fund European expansion.
Microsoft and Yahoo have restarted talks about forging an internet partnership that will provide a credible challenge to the increasing influence of Google. Talks are at ‘a very early stage.’
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Happy Easter!
NewsDouble Attractions: Exploring Networking Styles and A Time to Celebrate
NewsYou already have some networking skills! Come to discover what they are and how to enhance them. This is an educational and fun event that you don?t want to miss! This event is designed for participants to become aware of various networking techniques while sharing their own style. Draw from others networking successes and design your own personalized presentation.
A Time to Celebrate
GWWN is encouraging you to invite someone to recognize. Individuals making a significant difference in your life would like to hear it publicly. Time will be given to acknowledge them.
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Catalyst Award Winner: CH2M Hill
Industry Leaders, Leadership“We’ve always had an inclusive culture,” said Catherine Santee, CFO of the full-service engineering and construction leader CH2M Hill, “so we built our [goals for a more inclusive environment] on that.” Their award-winning U.S.-based initiative “Constructing Pathways for Women Through Inclusion,” includes strategic programs for the recruitment, development, retention and advancement of women. Last week, CH2M Hill was recognized for the “Constructing Pathways…” initiative at this year’s Catalyst Awards.
Santee has been with the company almost 14 years and has seen the difference made by the inclusion initiative. “When I first started [at CH2M Hill], even though we thought we were pretty good, it wasn’t comfortable to have open discussions of diversity and wanting to have more women included. That has really changed for us over the past several years. And so now it is not uncomfortable at all—it’s an open discussion—and it’s just a part of who we are.”
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Women’s Automotive Association International (WAAI) Breakfast
NewsWomen’s Automotive Association International’s Power of Branding and Surviving the Economy in the Automotive Industry.
Money raised goes towards scholarships for women seeking careers in the Automotive Industry.
Email carfink@bellsouth.net to register
The Glass Ceiling: Who Said That?
Spotlight on PeopleWe all talk about the glass ceiling, but do you know when the term began? Or whom we have to thank for it? Take a guess:
A) In 1971, Gloria Steinem coined the term in the premiere issue of Ms. Magazine.
B) Carol Hymowitz and Timothy Schellhardt used it in a 1986 Wall Street Journal.
C) Family Circle editor Gay Bryant first said it in a 1984 Adweek interview
D) No one knows. Perhaps an unknown woman stuck in middle management in Boston or Toronto or New York said it to a colleague in 1978, and then it spread by word of mouth.
E) None of the above
B is a popular answer on the Web. Even a Forbes story says the term originated in the Wall Street Journal. But keep clicking on those Google results and you’ll find your way to sources that say “glass ceiling” appeared in print two years prior when Gay Bryant said it in the Adweek interview. So answer C is close. But so are answers D and maybe E. Gay Bryant is probably the first to use “the glass ceiling” in print, and she did throw it out there in her Adweek interview. However, the very first time she put those words on paper were on page 19 of her book, The Working Woman Report. In chapter 1, Where We Are, Bryant writes:
Want to Get Home Sooner? Stop Multitasking Your E-mail
Expert AnswersAs women, we pride ourselves in our ability to multitask. We often smirk when men put laundry in and stand over the washer or read the paper straight through until it’s done. We gals think multitasking is an advantage—and maybe it is – but maybe it has gone too far.
Let’s face it – multitasking isn’t really doing two things at once. Multitasking is alternating among tasks. In other words, you hit the print button and then you shift to making a phone call while the print job is delivered. And yes, women are darn good at it.
But there’s a limit. The constant barrage of e-mail messages is testing those limits.
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Ask-A-Recruiter: Phantom Job Postings
Ask A RecruiterLast week, my coaching firm hosted our monthly free coaching call, where we answered questions from jobseekers about the hiring process. Not one, but two questions were submitted about phantom job postings: Why do recruiters post listings for jobs that don’t exist? Why do companies consistently list job openings, bring in interviewees, extend offers, and go far in the hiring process, only to put positions on hold and sometimes close the positions?
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Deal Making Without Dollars – The Art of Revenue Share Deals
NewsWhen the economy is strong, and the rising tide lifts all boats, everyone is behind revenue share deals: it’s a win-win. From the largest companies like Cisco (who just closed an innovative ad rev split deal with Warner Music for Cisco’s new social platform service) to the newest start-ups, media companies have long relied on splitting advertising revenue to get deals done.
But as advertising revenues face a potential decline will new media and technology deals continue to support the “rev share” deal approach? What’s the process for determining the value of a deal in the first place? Will deal evaluations be adjusted in this new economic environment? How do you account for “audited”, “trustworthy” numbers from the party responsible for paying out the revenue share?Join leading deal negotiation experts from a cross-section of media and technology companies to discuss best practices, common pitfalls, and upcoming trends in “revenue share” deal negotiation.
Speakers:
Chris Phenner, SVP, Thumbplay
John Sarnoff, Strategic Partnership Manager, Google TV
Mike Walsh, CEO, Leverage Software
Jeff Zaretsky, VP Business Development, KickApps Moderator:
Dan Roth, Senior Writer, Wired Magazine
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