Category: Women Leadership
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A Call to Action, and Platform to Enable Female Executive Search
CEO Worldwide & Female Executive Search A message from France Dequilbec, MD Female Executive Search, founded by INSEAD alum Patrick Mataix “The majority of the women I have interviewed over the past 2 years testify how difficult it is for them to access top level management and/or boards. There is no room for error and they…
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Gender and COVID-19: Let’s Make Better Decisions
By Katarina Uherova Hasbani & INSEAD IWiB Global Executive Committee 10 April 2020. 1,484,811 recorded cases. 85,538 deaths. 185 countries affected. That is the sobering, current statistics of the COVID-19 outbreak. We need all brains in the business to innovate our way of the current crisis. Addressing the gender dimension of the outbreak will be…
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Up-and-Coming Women in PE to Know: Kim Hruby
November 19, 2019 The interview below is part of a yearlong effort by McGuireWoods to profile up-and-coming women leaders in private equity (PE). This profile series complements our existing Women Leaders in Private Equity profile series, which will continue throughout 2019. To recommend a rising star for a future interview, email Amber Walsh at [email protected]. Hruby joined Council Capital in…
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THE CURRENT STATE OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
Women are not a common sight in most executive suites. The number of females in C-level positions is surprisingly low. The problem is compounded by the fact that women rarely hold the roles that lead to the executive suite – even though research has shown that when women participate in leadership, companies tend to have…
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“Invisible Women” wins the 2019 Business Book of the Year Award
December 4, 2019The winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award is an investigation into how a gender gap in data perpetuates disadvantages for women across the world. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by journalist and activist Caroline Criado Perez, delves into the ways data collection systematically ignores…