10 Top Women CEOs These 10 women lead Fortune 500 companies By WENDY CONNETT It is often said that the glass ceiling in corporate boardrooms is still intact. However, a few cracks appear here and there. Though the number of women chief executive officers (CEOs) at the helm of the largest companies is still significantly lower than the number of men serving as CEOs, their…
3 Female Fortune 500 CEOs Share Advice, Lessons, & Skills By Morgan Smith The number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500 rose to a record high this year — 44 — which still means that women run less than 10% of the largest corporations in the U.S. Despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women have yet…
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Heydemann To Be First Female CEO of Telecoms Group Orange By Mathieu Rosemain Orange (ORAN.PA) on Friday, January 28, named Christel Heydemann its new chief executive, making her the first woman to lead France’s biggest telecoms operator amid a revamp of its governance. A former graduate of France’s elite engineering school Polytechnique, 47-year-old Heydemann will replace Stephane Richard from April 4 at the helm of…
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Fraser is far from the first woman to run a bank and, in reality, these women have helped pave her way in an industry that remains a male bastion. By Ian Horswill Jane Fraser started as CEO of Citigroup on 1 March, the first woman to head a major Wall Street bank. It marks a huge milestone for women and one…
The Women Behind Nigeria’s $1.2 Billion Beauty Market. The Beauty Merchant Plugging Global Brands into Nigeria. Who: Alali Hart, CEO and founder of Montaigne AH Ltd, a beauty and wellness retailer, wholesaler and spa with 40 retail doors across the country in malls and outlets in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Enugu and Warri What: Montaigne Place, the firm’s flagship,…
Bethenny Frankel builds multimillion-dollar brands, stars in TV shows, and vigorously defends every moment of her day. The secret? It starts with deciding what matters (and what doesn’t). By Jason Feifer “In my glamorous life of being a mogul today,” Bethenny Frankel says, “I cleaned up dog poop and steamed lotion off the carpet.” We are talking at 6 p.m. on a Thursday.…
A breakthrough with tiny thrusters blasted this entrepreneur into the small satellite industry. By Signe Brewster As Natalya Brikner worked her way through a PhD at MIT’s Space Propulsion Laboratory, she assumed she’d go on to become a professor in the field. She grew up in a small town in northwest Oregon watching the stars and thinking about the aliens among…
Women entrepreneurs are making their mark in the business world by taking on new challenges daily and are finding great success. According to nonprofit organization Catalyst, women hold only 6 percent of CEO positions in the S&P 500. That percentage jumps considerably when you look at ecommerce, as Amazon data company Jungle Scout reports 32 percent of sellers are women. But even this statistic reveals a gender gap in the business. Women…
