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Corporate Diversity Still Coming Up Short for Women

Review of S&P 100 Shows Women Account For Fewer Than 1 in 10 Top Paid Executives, 1 in 5 Board Members. Women may make up more than half the workforce1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, […]

StrategyDriven Podcasts Receive Top Honors in October

The StrategyDriven family would like to thank you, our listeners, for recognizing our StrategyDriven podcasts as some of the best business podcasts on the internet according to Podcast Alley! In October, the StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective Podcast was ranked second among the over 2,950 business podcasts listed on Podcast Alley and the StrategyDriven Podcast fourth among […]

Project Management Best Practice 6 – A+ Players

Mission critical projects often impact not only large portions of the employee population but the ability of the company to be competitive and to carry out important functions over the long-term. In fact, some projects are so important that board members and company officers literally bet the company’s very existence on the successful outcome of the initiative. With stakes this high, the question becomes: Can company leaders afford to assign anyone other than their most talented personnel to conceive, develop, and implement these initiatives?

Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and stability in the age of transparency

This year, Interbrand’s annual Best Global Brands 2010 ranking of the top 100 brands was notable for showing a remarkable shift in consumers’ spending habits. Public scandals like the BP oil spill and Goldman Sachs’ mortgage securities fraud compromised consumers’ trust in brands, and as a result, consumer loyalty was at an all-time low. At […]