There’s no doubt about it: going to business school can boost a woman’s career. In a recent survey of MBA graduates by Bloomberg Businessweek, women who earned an MBA six to eight years ago reported that their degree increased their earning potential and connected them to a powerful network of fellow alumni. They’re also pretty happy with what they’re doing: 64 percent of women described themselves as “very satisfied” with their current job.
Read MoreOver the weekend the right-leaning Labor and Justice Party won a majority in Poland’s general election, setting up 52-year-old Beata Szydlo to become the country’s next prime minister. She will be the third female prime minister in the country’s history, and will take over from another woman, Ewa Kopacz of the Civic Party.
Read MoreJennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss know a thing or two about entrepreneurship. The Harvard Business School grads cofounded the fashion-rental service Rent the Runway, one of the most buzzed-about startups of the past few years (with $80 million in revenue projected for 2015), and now they’d like to help other women follow in their footsteps.
Read MoreIf your organization has an all-male board, chances are you’re leaving a ton of money on the table. A study of publicly traded companies in the US, UK, and India found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards in every region.
Read MoreRaise your hand if you want to add $12 trillion to the world’s economy over the next decade. …Is everyone’s hand raised? Good news! Researchers say we can make it happen by addressing gender inequality.
Read MoreMore proof that ageism and sexism do a company no favors: a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that women over 55 tend to be the most qualified candidates to lead organizations through periods of transformational change.
Read MoreA year from now, looking back on 2014, what do you want this year to have been about?
I’d like to see us get out of our own way, get out ahead of the internal fears, “shoulds” and “what if’s” that too often hamstring our change-making efforts and distract from the tasks before us. With women so vastly underrepresented in our major institutions and poorly represented in media, we have plenty of things working against us. We don’t want to work against ourselves, too.
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