On December 8th, the Center for Women’s Leadership hosted one of the co-authors of the newly released book, “Women Want More.”  Michael Silverstein, a senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, shared the data that he and Kate Sayre gathered from thousands of women in 26 different countries.
 
According to Silverstein and Sayre, a quiet economic and [...]

Greetings from the World Entrepreneurship Forum (WEF) in Lyon, France where I just facilitated a public workshop on Women’s Entrepreneurship. This is the second WEF , a program dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship in a way that creates wealth and social justice on a global scale and the Forum is indeed global with members coming [...]

 
I recently had the opportunity to participate in the final round of an international business case competition in Hong Kong with three of my fellow peers from Babson. The IIBD Case Competition was a two part case competition with 30 universities from 11 countries competing to solve real-world business problems. In the first round competition, [...]

This past week I co-chaired Babson’s Executive Education Program for women “Moving from Managing to Leading“. For all of us who teach on this program, twice a year this is, hands down, our favorite way to spend five days.
 
The group of women professionals who attended were from great organizations in telecommunication, insurance, bio-pharmaceutical, education, [...]

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 [...]

I had the great privilege and pleasure of having breakfast last week with the new administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills.  The breakfast was for a board on which I serve, the national advisory board to the SBA for the SBDC program.  This was our first meeting with Administrator Mills to hear [...]

If you are a regular follower of events and activities at Babson’s Center for Women’s Leadership, you already know that for the first time in a dozen years (even longer if you count the amazing student-run conferences back in the days when) we will not be holding our Annual Women’s Leadership Conference this autumn. [...]

At Babson, for the past two weeks, 30 young Saudi women have descended on our campus, eager to engage and learn about social entrepreneurship. Their mission-to develop a new social venture -one that is SUSTAINABLE, FUNDABLE ($$) and EXECUTABLE within the confines of their culture and society.
 
It hasn’t been easy.
 
These thirty girls came together from [...]

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 [...]