Career Stories: Jess Galica, MBA ’16 – Leap: Why It’s Time to Let Go to Get Ahead in Your Career

Jess Galica, MBA ’16, recently published new a book titled, Leap: Why It’s Time to Let Go to Get Ahead in Your Career. This book shares the stories of high-performing women who have redefined their career trajectories and explores why …

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MBArk Conference Info

MBArk2Boulder Sustainability & Food Leadership Conference

The 3rd MBArk2Boulder Sustainability & Food Leadership Conference will take place at the University of Colorado Boulder January 4-6, 2023, in between semesters, and is now open for registration at https://mbark.com/mbark2boulder/#. Early Bird tickets …

By Susan Todd
Susan Todd Senior Associate Director, Recruiting Services/Alumni Employer Relationship Manager
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Amazon Pathways Newsletter

Below you’ll find an update on our summer 2023 internship, upcoming virtual events, and information about Worldwide Operations at Amazon.

We have created a landing page (https://bit.ly/23NAPW) to provide additional information for you and your students regarding the Pathways operations …

By Susan Todd
Susan Todd Senior Associate Director, Recruiting Services/Alumni Employer Relationship Manager
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The World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies

By Samantha Todd | Forbes | November 2, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken an especially heavy toll on women around the world. By January 2021, nearly 3 million women had dropped out of the workforce in the U.S. alone. Worldwide, women

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This founder and CEO works to get women closer to capital

By Meredith Somers | MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter | October 18, 2021

A 2020 women’s leadership study from LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co. found that American women held less than 40% of corporate management positions, and women continue to fight …

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Study delves into the key to success for entrepreneurial women

By Kristen K. Shanine | Nashville Business Journal | October 22, 2021

The pandemic has created a surge in entrepreneurship within the United States. There was an impressive 24 percent increase in startups between 2019 and 2020, the most significant increase on …

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Pathways to Progress for Women Entrepreneurs

When we look at the challenges women face in entrepreneurship today, the discussion often involves the tech sector as a whole. This misses a deeper problem.

Although women are making gains in B2C startups, with women-founded Stitch Fix and Eventbrite …

By Whitney Sales. Whitney Sales is general partner at Acceleprise Ventures and creator of The Sales Method. She tweets @thesalesmethod.
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Closing the Gender Gap Is Good for Business

“We are having real conversations now about getting more women into every level of our organizations and onto boards, and that’s a good thing. But we need to get beyond conversations. We need to get to the point where every …

By Douglas A. Ready and Carol Cohen. Douglas A. Ready (@doug_ready) is a senior lecturer in organizational effectiveness at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the founder and CEO of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research, and an MIT Sloan Management Review guest editor. Carol Cohen is senior vice president of talent management and development at Cognizant Technology Solutions and a founding board member of the Cognizant U.S. Foundation. She is a frequent guest speaker on a broad range of topics at forums such as MIT, LBS, HR, and business conferences.
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