Becoming a Parent/Leaving the Workplace–Choice or Discrimination?
Sylvia Ann Hewlett writes extensively about the barrier women face to promotion, especially if they exit the workplace to care for young children or increasingly aging parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: discrimination, parenting, work-life balance
The Benefits of a Paid Internship
Recently the National Association of Colleges and Employers released a study about paid internships that showed prior paid internships resulted in higher job search success and higher salaries when a former intern was hired. The study made no similar correlation between unpaid internships, job placement and starting salary.
As a story in Inside Higher Ed discussed there is significant controversy around unpaid internships, who they benefit and to what extent a subject also discussed by Ross Perlin in his book Intern Nation.
As the spring internship application season heats up, students need to carefully weigh their aspirations and personal circumstances before commiting themselves to a semester long internship. And once the semester starts school administrators need to make sure their students are being treated professionally.
Tags: Inside Higher Ed, Intern Nation, National Association of Colleges and Employers, paid internships, student advising, unpaid internships
Jeffrey Immelt GE CEO and Jobs Czar
On Sunday night Lesley Stahl interviewed Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE on 6o Minutes. It was a wide ranging interview that touched on jobs creation, corporate taxes, and the increasingly international stance of many U.S. corporations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 60 Minutes, corporate executives, GE, Jeffrey Immelt, job creation, leadership, Lesley Stahl, management
Celebrity Boards, Super Star CEO’s
The New York Times Dealbook today had a story entitled Handicapping the Investment of IAC in Chelsea Clinton by Steven M. Davidoff, former corporate lawyer who is a professor at Ohio State University. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Chelsea Clinton, corporate boards, corporate executives, female executives, IAC, leadership, management, McKinsey and Company, New York Times
The Big Payout
Eric Dash has an intriguing story in The New York Times today Outsize Severance Continues for Executives Even After Failed Tenures. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Gaga and Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is well known for its case study method. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Anita Elberse, case study method, entertainment, Harvard Business School, Lady Gaga, leadership, management
Is the Job Interview Overrated?
Tags: board of directors, career transitions, Ebay, female executives, Hewlett-Packard, hiring, interviewing, James B. Stewart, Leo Apotheker, management, Meg Whitman, Michael Useem, msnbc.com, phone interviews, The New York Times, University of Pennsylvania
The Consequences of Being Overpaid
How much are your worth? And do you consider yourself overpaid or underpaid? And what does that mean for compensation throughout a career? University of Notre Dame professor, Adam Wowak, at the Mendoza College of Business, has new research that shows CEOs who have been overpaid earlier in their tenures continue to receive the largest raises or smallest pay cuts. Read the rest of this entry »
30,000 Employees of Bank of America Expected to Leave, One Whistleblower Returning
While Bank of America announced a downsizing earlier this week with an anticipated 30,000 employees being given pink slips during the coming years. Read the rest of this entry »
What kind of week is it for Women Executives?
What kind of week has it been so far for women executives? It has been decidedly mixed. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: All Things D, Bank of America, career transitions, Carol Bartz, female executives, Jill Abramson, management, New York Times, Sallie Krawcheck, severance, Susan Chira, Yahoo
