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Autore |
Branson Douglas M. |
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The last male bastion : gender and the CEO suite in America's public companies / / Douglas M. Branson |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-135-23437-X |
1-135-23438-8 |
1-282-97503-X |
9786612975035 |
0-203-86566-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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338.7082/0973 |
338.70820973 |
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Soggetti |
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Women chief executive officers - United States |
Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Portraits of Women CEOs; 1 The Fall of Jill Barad at Mattel Toy; 2 Carleton Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard; 3 A CEO Success-Andrea Jung at Avon Products; 4 Plowhorse-Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial; 5 Anne Mulcahy at Xerox and Patricia Russo at Alcatel-Lucent-Fix It CEOs; 6 Go Where They Aren't; 7 Two Additional CEO Portraits; 8 Five Who Leave Few Footprints; 9 CEO Additions of 2008-09; Part II Why There Aren't More; 10 Why Women?; 11 How We Choose CEOs; 12 Glass Ceilings, Floors, Walls, and Cliffs |
13 Work-Life Issues and the Price of Motherhood14 In a Different Register; 15 Legacies of Tokenism: Retreats into Stereotypes; Part III How to Get There; 16 Narcissists, Malignant Narcissists, and Productive Narcissists; 17 Good-to-Great Companies and Plowhorse CEOs; 18 The Plowhorse Versus the Showhorse; 19 Education, Mentoring, and Networking; 20 Lessons Learned; 21 Conclusion: Evolving a New Paradigm for a New Century; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women's progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity, women made significant strides in politics (as senators, cabinet secretaries and governors), in not-for-profit spheres (as CEOs of health care and hospital organizations or of United Way chapters, with budgets of billions of dollars), and at colleges and universi |
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