http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership Just another Babson Blogs weblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ 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), ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/10/08/babson-recognized-for-efforts-to-recruit-women-for-mba-programs/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/09/28/news-from-the-sba/ 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 ... http://blogs.babson.edu/womensleadership/2009/09/22/no-cwl-conference-what-the-heck-is-going-on/