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Why B-Schools Struggle to Enroll More Women

Why B-Schools Struggle to Enroll More Women

🕔01:00, 17.Mar 2016

Today, women are almost as likely as men to fill the seats of medical school and law school classrooms. Yet the share of women enrolled in MBA programs hasn’t risen above 37.2 percent in the past decade, according to the

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From MBA To CEO: Five Tips From General Motor’s First Female Chief

From MBA To CEO: Five Tips From General Motor’s First Female Chief

🕔01:00, 4.Feb 2015

Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors, the world’s third largest automaker by sales, is perhaps the most successful female MBA graduate of her time. The General Motors chief has presided over the tail end of a remarkable turnaround at

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Female MBA graduates lack ambition of male counterparts, says study

Female MBA graduates lack ambition of male counterparts, says study

🕔01:00, 22.Oct 2014

The most highly qualified female business graduates lack the ambition of male counterparts in sectors such as engineering, manufacturing and natural resources, new research suggests. Some 84% of women taking management jobs in “tech-intensive” industries immediately after gaining a master’s

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No, UCLA, Gender Equality in B-School Faculty Isn’t ‘Mathematically Impossible’

No, UCLA, Gender Equality in B-School Faculty Isn’t ‘Mathematically Impossible’

🕔01:00, 14.Oct 2014

Closing the gender pay gap at U.S. business schools is “mathematically impossible,” according to a finance professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Bhagwan Chowdhry, writing in a recent Huffington Post article, asserts that data showing women are paid less

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For women MBA students, it’s getting better

For women MBA students, it’s getting better

🕔01:00, 13.Oct 2014

Much has been said about MBA programs’ unfriendliness toward women, but evidence suggests female students voices’ are gradually being heard. Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella advised attendees of a women’s computing conference that they shouldn’t ask for pay raises.

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Will Harvard Ever Have an MBA Class With 50 Percent Women?

Will Harvard Ever Have an MBA Class With 50 Percent Women?

🕔01:00, 29.Aug 2014

The 940 students who started classes at Harvard Business School this week counted more women in their ranks than ever before. Women are 41 percent of the school’s 2016 MBA class, according to a preliminary class profile. That’s slightly higher

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Five Reasons Women Should Get MBAs

Five Reasons Women Should Get MBAs

🕔01:00, 22.Aug 2014

What’s so wrong with an MBA? Over the recent years, article after article has explained why the degree is a waste of money and time. The thinking goes, networking with your friends and reading a few books is an easy

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For Female Faculty, a B-School Glass Ceiling

🕔01:00, 8.Aug 2011

It’s lonely at the top. That adage could be the mantra of female faculty at business schools across the country who have reached the coveted and most prestigious step of their career ladder, full professor. The number of women who’ve

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