IBM sponsors 5th Tuck-WBENC executive program
March 10, 2008
More than 50 successful women business owners from Washington State to New Jersey gathered recently for the 5th Tuck-WBENC Executive Program at the IBM conference facility in Palisades, NY, sponsored by IBM. Led by Dr, Len Greenhalgh, professor of management and director of executive programs for minority- and women-businesses at Tuck, the attendees received intensive executive level training in management, financials, growth strategies and personnel development. Read more
The Home Depot adds woman to board
March 10, 2008
The world’s largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot, has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including one female, Karen Katen. The other new members are F. Duane Ackerman and Ari Bousbib. These appointments are a part of the company’s planned succession process to replace four existing board members, John L. Clendenin, Claudio X. Gonzales, Milledge A. Hart III and Kenneth G. Langone, who are scheduled to retire from the board in May 2008.
Katen currently serves as chairman of the Pfizer Foundation, and recently retired as vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. and as president of Pfizer Human Health, the company’s principal operating group. Katen joined Pfizer in 1974 and has held numerous leadership roles within the organization until her retirement earlier this year. In 1993, she was named executive vice president of Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals and she was promoted to president of that same business unit in 1995. During 2001, she was named president of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group, the global pharmaceutical unit of Pfizer, and was elected executive vice president of Pfizer. She was elected vice chairman of Pfizer in 2005. With this recent announcement, The Home Depot’s board currently consists of 14 members, with 13 of them being outside directors.
Forums held in five cities will determine business growth for women of color
March 10, 2008
The final of a five-city national research study to identify obstacles to business growth faced by women business owners of color was held in Chicago on Jan. 23. The day-long research forum, was conducted by the Center for Women’s Business Research and Babson College.The objective was to identify the barriers and challenges that women of color face in the pursuit of business growth and to create individual, community, and ultimately, national action plans to overcome those barriers. Bank of America was the city sponsor for the Chicago research forum and the Women’s Business Development Center Chicago was the city co-presenter.
The research will culminate at the CFWBR 2008 National Symposium in Washington D.C. on May 6-7 where public- and private-sector policy recommendations generated by the research will be announced. Women entrepreneurs who are African American,Asian, Latina and other ethnicities, who wish to grow their businesses to a higher level and help create local and national agendas that support businesses owned by women of color,must apply in advance to participate. Selection criteria include owning a business that is at least 50 percent women owned with annual revenues between $250,000 and $5 million.Womenof- color entrepreneurs who meet the research criteria and wish to participate should contact the Center for Women’s Business Research at www.womens businessresearch.org or at (202) 638-3060 ext. 725.
Center for Women’s Business Research names new board members
March 10, 2008
Dr. Candida Brush, Dr. Jana Matthews and Emily Stone were recently elected to the board of The Center for Women’s Business Research. Their three year term began as of Jan.1.
Brush, a professor, holds the president’s chair in entrepreneurship at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass. Matthews is founder and CEO of The Jana Matthews Group, a Boulder, Colo., company that offers leadership consulting. Stone is founder and president of Stone Group, a New York-based provider of strategic business and licensing services to fashion and consumer products companies.
The CFWBR’s mission “is to provide data-driven knowledge to advance the economic, social and political impact of women business owners and their enterprises worldwide.” For more information, visit www.womensbusinessresearch.org
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