http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership Just another Babson Blogs weblog Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:28:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/12/18/michael-silverstein-and-%e2%80%9cwomen-want-more%e2%80%9d/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/12/16/world-entrepreneurship-forum-women%e2%80%99s-panel%e2%80%93november-2009/   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. ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/11/30/iibd-international-business-case-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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/11/20/news-from-the-front-line/ What follows is the first few paragraphs of Ernst & Young's press release on their second report in their "Groundbreakers" series. This report focuses on driving economic growth through the expansion of women-owned businesses around the world. Ernst & Young released the second report in its "Groundbreakers" series today during the annual Strategic Growth Forum ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/11/11/women-owned-businesses-can-recharge-the-global-economy/  I attended the Harvard Women in Business Conference, Saturday, November 7th. It was a great experience. The keynote speakers (Anne Sweeney of Disney Media networks, Johanna Faber of Procter & Gamble, Priya Haji and Seema Shah of World of Good by Ebay, and Allison Gollust of NBC Universal) were all ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/11/10/students-learn-and-lead/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/10/30/joanna-barsh-author-series-event-at-babson/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/10/16/research-reveals-great-progress-for-women-business-owners/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/10/14/what-happens-when-you-get-a-group-of-talented-women-together/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/10/09/good-news-on-women-leaders/