Tag: Women

Innovation, or the creation of new products or processes, helps small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) be more productive and profitable -- and sometimes even survive. As a catalyst of social Read more

She Always Gives Her All to the Family Firm -- but He Follows the Leader

It’s been proven that dedicated employees who go above and beyond what the job specifies help their companies be more efficient and keep customers happy. Other research has shown that leaders can Read more

The Making of Successful Female Family-Enterprise Leaders

Based on interviews with 46 female family firm successors from 13 countries around the globe, we distill patterns of how the female successors were raised, how their career paths looked like, what Read more

Kathy Goughenour grew her virtual training business. This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs, a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX. The Read more

For generations, grandmothers, mothers, daughters and aunts have played informal, behind-the-scenes but important roles in family businesses worldwide. They have provided critical emotional support Read more

While it appears that Covid-19 is waning in many parts of the world, its effects -- economic as well as physical -- still linger for many. Among the hardest hit: working women, including those who Read more

Female Advisors Can Help Family Businesses

As we continue seeing women make progress in their family businesses by breaking glass ceilings, gaining board seats, and increasingly being named successor, it is important to celebrate the women Read more

Family Firms Can Optimize Women's Strengths

Family businesses are far ahead of non-family businesses in letting women help shape important decisions, but both the family firms and the women themselves must make some changes in order to Read more

How Women Can Make it in the Ultimate Man's World

More women around the world are launching their own companies, especially as the pandemic has displaced many of them from corporate work. These women already face more hurdles than men do in Read more

Military families often must move every three years, making it nearly impossible for spouses to sustain a career that requires working for someone else. Many smart and talented spouses are becoming Read more