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Catherine Tinsley’s research featured by SHRM: “Looking for Female CEOs? Consider Board Service as a Qualifier”
Board membership can be a pathway for women to attain CEO roles, according to new research from Georgetown University. More women than men tend to serve on boards of public companies—59 percent v
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Catherine Tinsley comments on the career path to CEO for women in Quartz feature
This doesn’t prove that board experience was the reason the women were hired as CEOs. But the researchers think there’s a strong case for correlation. “First, as board members these women get into th
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Catherine Tinsley: “Board Experience Is Helping More Women Get CEO Jobs” (Harvard Business Review)
The news about U.S. women’s presence in the C-suite — and especially the CEO job — has been pretty bleak. Nationwide, fewer than 5% of CEOs of public companies are women. In the Fortune 500, that
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure industries, ranging from transportation (e.g., rail), energy (e.g., electricity) and communications (e.g., broadband), have played prominent roles in stimulating economic growth in the
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Anna-Maria Kovacs: “America’s Consumers Deserve Best-in-Class Privacy Protections” (ECN)
Right now, privacy in the U.S. consists of a patchwork of state and federal laws that make it extremely difficult for an American to know his or her rights. Federal laws cover some specific aspec
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Larry Downes: “5G’s Potential, and Why Businesses Should Start Preparing for It” (Harvard Business Review)
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 A new Accenture survey of nearly 2,000 technology and business executives in 10 countries revealed deep uncertainty about next-generation mobile network technology, know
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Antonio Fatás comments on CNBC BREXIT feature
"There's 'no good solution' to Brexit, professor says" CNBC (March 11, 2019)The "best compromise" for the U.K. and E.U. would be to revoke Article 50, but that is not likely to happen, says Anton
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Larry Downes: “Is the tech backlash going askew?” (Washington Post)
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 As winter sets in, the dark days for technology companies have been getting longer. We sympathize with the increased anxiety over the poor data hygiene practices
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Robert J. Shapiro releases policy paper: “Changes in the Educational, Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Employment, January 2008 to August 2018, and the Debate over Diversity in the U.S. Economy”
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Americans are caught in a fierce political struggle today over a border wall intended to discourage immigration from Latin America. It’s part of a long ongoing debat
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