A recent study featured in Harvard Business Review explores how more women can get to the top. The feature's author Evelyn Orr of the Korn Ferry Institute explains what interviewing 57 female CEOs unveiled about the gender gap.
"We were shocked to learn that two-thirds of the women we interviewed didn't view themselves as CEO material," says Evelyn Orr VP and COO at the Korn Ferry Institute. Orr explains ways companies can build women in the pipeline for the CEO level. "I think the key for companies is to identify high potential talent early," says Orr.
This week, Tina Smith was sworn in as a junior Senator for Minnesota, replacing Al Franken. This marks a record number of 22 senators. "It is showing slow and steady progress," says Orr. "It's important that we normalize female leadership."
UAW president Shawn Fain said the union would strike at a small number of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis factories, but that if the Big Three "continue to give us insulting offers, then our strike is going to continue to grow."
Hundreds of Milwaukee bar patrons who hoped to score free drinks through its offer to pay their tabs whenever the New York Jets, and former Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, lose had to pay up after the Jets got an overtime win despite an injury that took Rodgers out of the game.
The HBCU Transformation Project, a coalition of 40 historically Black colleges and universities, on Wednesday announced a $124 million gift from philanthropic funders Blue Meridian Partners to increase enrollment, graduation rates and employment rates for the schools' graduates.
