Ashridge and KPMG Launch New Research into Women in Leadership Roles
Ashridge Business School has partnered up with KPMG in order to launch new research looking into the question of why there are a lack of women in leadership positions in Major Projects, according to a press release from the school. Along with investigating how the current state of affairs might be changed, the research plans on demonstrating the value that women could bring to some of the United Kingdom’s most important projects. Continue reading…
Judge Kicks Off Women’s Leadership Initiative
Judge Business School began their Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) on June 19 with an inaugural conference that focused on women’s empowerment and leadership issues, according to a press release from the school.
A number of speakers were present at the event so they could deliver their thoughts on some of the obstacles that women face in the business world. Brenda Trenowden, Global Chair of the 30% Club and Head of FIG Europe, proposed that the issue facing the advancement of women in business is less a matter of a “glass ceiling” than it is a “glass wall,” where men ride the escalator of promotion while women are left the trudge up the stairs, often causing them to grow discouraged. Continue reading…
D’Amore-McKim Holds Women Who Inspire Speaker Series
The next Women Who Inspire Speaker Series at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business will be held June 16. This event titled, “Finance and Private Equity” will feature industry professionals that will discuss financial trends, mitigating risks and emerging markets. The event will be held 5:00 to 7:30 pm at the Northeastern University campus in Boston. The event is free for all Northeastern students, faculty and staff. Registration for the event can be completed online.
The event’s featured panelist include, Mary Deatherage, managing director of wealth management and private wealth advisor, Morgan Stanley, Fran Jani, founding partner of Pomona Capital and Rachel Tyler, senior vice president of Fidelity Investments. The moderator for the panel discussion will be Mike Sanders, executive director of the Potomac Research Group. The cost of the program for industry professionals and Northeastern alumni is $45.
Earning the MBA Becomes More Family Friendly
Women have always faced certain biases when it comes to business. Pay gaps, maternity leave and the overall balance of work and family life have limited women to positions that are available to them. However, over the last few years the number of women in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies and in political office has increased. According to the Pew Research Center, “Women have made inroads in this area slowly over time.”
Twenty years ago, there were no female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Now, women make up 5 percent of CEOs in the country’s Fortune 500 companies, 17 percent of the corporate board members among Fortune 500 companies and there are now 104 women who serve as members of Congress, according to the Pew Center. The number of state legislators who are women has also risen from 4.5 percent in 1971 to 24.2 percent in 2015.
The corporate and political worlds are not the only places where women are beginning to see changes. Colleges and Universities are now seeing more women enrolled in MBA programs than ever before. According to Pew, in 2013 women earned 36 percent of MBAs. Specifically, the Sloan School of Management at MIT welcomed the largest class of women in the school’s history in 2014. The incoming class of MBA students at Sloan in the Fall of 2014 was 40 percent female, up from 33 percent from the last year.
HBS Launches New Recruiting Program for Women
The Harvard Business School will launch a new recruiting program, called PEEK that will address the underrepresentation of women in its student body. Of the 1,859 MBA students currently enrolled in the Business School, 41 percent are female. The new recruiting program will target women’s colleges to help increase the female study body.
The program will host about 70 to 80 rising juniors, seniors and recent graduates during a weekend in June and will expose them to the Business School and familiarize them with the MBA program at Harvard. The PEEK program will diverge from a more traditional visit. Program participants will partake in assigned case studies, live on campus and meet with faculty, current students and alumni.
