Cece Sutton, new President of the Retail Banking Group at Morgan Stanley and Liz Smith, longtime President of Avon addressed the crowd of young MBA women attending the Dialogue with Leadership session that Babson’s Center For Women’s Leadership sponsored at the Forte Foundation Conference in New York this past Friday.  Interviewed by Patricia Sellers, Editor at [...]

Politics aside, Sonia Sotomayor is someone worth knowing about. So is her mother, Celina.
As with all the other women Supreme Court nominees, many nasty, irrelevant and erroneous news items are being spewed into the media. Post-election, what has happened to our American love of the rags to riches, up with your bootstraps stories that inspire [...]

Not only is Ursula Burns the first black woman who will lead a Fortune 500 company, but this recent succession announcement by Xerox Corporation is also historic in that it is the first time a woman will succeed another woman (Anne Mulcahy) as CEO of a major multinational.  I for one am not entirely surprised [...]

A wonderfully WICED thing is being created in Liverpool by a team of
very dedicated women.  WICED (Women’s International Centre for
Economic Development) is a new entry onto the scene of women’s
entrepreneurship.  While it is currently housed with the Train2000
program, WICED will eventually be housed in its own incubator building
currently being designed just for their purposes.
I learned [...]