In a recent study, Victoria Brescoll, a social psychologist at Yale School of Management, examined whether female leaders are judged more harshly for small mistakes when in traditionally male occupations.
A panel at our First Women Summit 2016, supported by the CBI, tried to tackle the issue of whether females sometimes needed to turn a blind eye to inappropriate behaviour in order to further the case of women in business.
After having made a joke about how she hoped her granddaughters dated a nerd in case he turned out to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Darlene Loretto probably didn’t expect the man himself to tell her to think bigger.
By Reema Arya
Banks and financial services are constantly looking for innovations for technological platforms to enhance customer experience, and to stay at the top of the finance profession, I joined the MBA programme at HEC Paris to learn what financial leaders need to know today.
By Ida Tin
Ida Tin, founder of Clue, discusses why she believes her workplace should be the norm, not the minority, as well as discussing the many benefits of creating a workplace where parental leave is flexible and children are welcomed in to the office.
By Oscar Macia
Following the recent “I look like an engineer” campaign, Oscar Macia, CEO of ForceManager, looks at gender imbalance in IT, why it exists and how to change dated perceptions of IT as a “male only” career choice.
Search the term “CEO” in Google images and the first female you’ll find is 15 rows down. Surprisingly, she turns out to be a Barbie doll.
As Walmart found through its ill-fated South Korean growth push, it really does pay to know just how an overseas market expects your business to behave.
Findings from Dr Dawn Eubanks and Warwick Business School imply that within business, military and sport, individuals who conform to stereotypes in their domain and share common facial features with leaders from other sectors, could be the next Alexander the Great.
