Joanna Barsh – what an inspiration. After high fiving strangers to get my Engagement level up, hearing about her husband’s greatest skill being love (he likes to hug) and that being 23 out of 25 for her on a skill profile – I was enthused and bursting with excitement about leading. Joanna took us through [...]

I just returned from the Center for Women’s Business Research Board meeting in Chicago which included a joint meeting with the Leadership Council.  As a researcher in women’s entrepreneurship, founder of the Diana Project,  and Division Chair of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, I was most heartened to learn of the progress that women business owners are [...]

At The Center For Women’s Leadership both undergraduate and MBA women students are paired with top local women business colleagues for a yearlong mentoring program.  What have we found? First, three cheers for women’s ability to hold meaningful conversations in all kinds of situations with colleagues from a variety of nationalities and business backgrounds. The culture of [...]

It is time for some good news.   Many of us were downhearted in July 2007 when we read Catalyst’s latest publication, “The Double Bind Dilemma for Women in Leadership: Damned if you do, Doomed if You Don’t.” [1]  That piece presented research from two Catalyst studies that looked at perceptions of women’s leadership among very [...]

Babson College was recently recognized in the latest issue (Aug.Sept.Oct. 2009) of Pink Magazine as one of their favorite picks for our efforts to reach out to women.  In addition to Babson’s Fast Track MBA, the article highlighted five other programs for executives—University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Michigan (Ross), NewYork University (Stern), Emory University [...]