Sentences with phrase «executive ranks»

Although I'd love to see more black women find success in executive ranks, diversity comes in many forms — as partners, contractors, and vendors, or through acquisition.

And there are very few women in the top executive ranks of the nation's largest technology companies.

Her elevation is also a breakthrough in the network television industry that has long struggled with diversity, especially in the senior executive ranks.

He's one of the few current leaders of a big global bank who reached a senior - executive rank before his firm went public.

A quarter of the women in the survey are in the highest executive ranks, 11 percent are founders, and 11 percent are in venture.

And there are many layers involved in communicating concerns up to the top executive ranks.

Many companies are reluctant to announce a succession plan for fear it might signal instability within executive ranks.

While providing benefits may seem expensive, a majority of executives rank benefits and paid time off as having the best ROI.

Canadian Tire, for example, appraises middle managers it's considering moving into executive ranks.

In a new analysis, only 13 percent of black female Harvard MBAs over the past 40 years have reached the senior-most executive ranks.

Yet only 39 percent of these same executives ranked gender equality as a top - ten business priority, and only half admitted they have established goals to get there.

Perhaps the most willing may be Ladbrokes with chief executive officer Dean Shannon out the door and rumblings of more changes in the local executive ranks.

A survey of upstream oil and gas executives ranks B.C. dead last among Canadian provinces for investment attractiveness.

An expert in the field of public health, La Montagne received several prominent awards, including the Surgeon General's Certificate of Appreciation and the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award.

Unfortunately, in a 2014 survey from Deloitte University Press, while 86 percent of executives ranked leadership as their highest priority issue, only 13 percent of executives in the same survey rated themselves as excellent in providing leadership programs.

The group banded together to advocate for gender parity in executive ranks and provide legal defense aid of $ 13m (# 9m) for sexual harassment victims.

He has overhauled the entire senior executive ranks.

At about a third of the firms studied, or 7,859, both the board of directors and the highest executive ranks were less than five percent female.

His departure from Facebook — like his decision to leave Yahoo in 2015 — highlight growing tension within executive ranks and among regulators about the best way to respond to security incidents and data leaks.

Even among graduates of Harvard Business School — arguably the most elite graduate business program in the country — only 13 percent of black female Harvard MBAs over the past 40 years have reached the senior-most executive ranks.

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

Since he joined BlackBerry last month, replacing CEO Thorsten Heins, Chen has started a dramatic overhaul of its executive ranks and begun fresh efforts to turn around the company.

His departure adds to recent turnover in Nike's executive ranks that took place amid allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior.

I didn't break through to the executive ranks until my mid-30s.

A new analysis shows that only 13 percent of black women from Harvard's business school have made it to executive ranks.

With any luck, in 30 years our children will view the homogeneity of our executive ranks with the befuddlement with which we watch Mad Men characters smoking and drinking on company time.

She summarizes her experience at Google like this: «I didn't see a lot of women, especially Asian women, black women or other women of color in the executive ranks.

Green began his CP career in 1978 and rose up through the executive ranks, filling leadership positions in operations, sales and marketing.

He joined the company in 1996 and worked his way up through the executive ranks before taking over as CEO in 2012.

Let us begin, then, with one cold, hard - numbered truth: For much of corporate America, racial diversity continues to be at best a challenge — and at worst a flat - out fiction — particularly in the executive ranks.

They make up the majority of executive ranks and even more than that at the CEO level, and have a unique obligation to be out in front advancing women's participation and engagement in the workforce — personally and on behalf of their organization.

In the 11 months since then, Mr. Hackett has shuffled Ford's executive ranks and outlined plans to introduce new sport - utility vehicles and electric cars.

California's state treasurer, John Chiang, who is also running for governor there, traveled to the meeting to call for a shakeup in the executive ranks.

Wells Fargo switched up its executive ranks following the scandal but other investigations into its own sales practices unearthed issues in its auto lending, mortgage and wealth management divisions.

To defend its interests in Washington, Facebook has filled its executive ranks with former senior government officials from both political parties.

Hastings decided to re-evaluate everyone in the executive ranks, using the litmus test McCord taught him: Would he hire them again today?

Snapchat is building its executive ranks and creating more features after turning down a $ 3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook last year.

She downgraded Yahoo's stock from «buy» to «outperform» and advised it to beef up its executive ranks.

Still, Palo Alto, California - based Flipboard has lost members of its executive ranks.

Negotiations to sell to Twitter Inc. for about $ 1 billion fell apart around the time the social network was embarking on a shakeup of its executive ranks that eventually led to co-founder Jack Dorsey's return as CEO, according to two people familiar with the talks.

The company said it hired recruiting firm Korn Ferry to help the board find a new CEO, indicating it is open to finding an outsider to guide it out of its current malaise, rather than pulling its next CEO from its executive ranks as it did when it promoted Steinhafel from president.

The purchase, and a shuffling in the executive ranks that comes with it, are Walmart's clearest acknowledgments yet that its online strategy is not working.

Their findings set off an upheaval in the executive ranks of the world's largest sports footwear and apparel company.

PayPal publicly released its government - mandated diversity reports for the first time Friday, showing small gains for women and people of color in its executive ranks in the past year but still an overwhelmingly white and male top management.

Although that's only 6 percent of PayPal's executive ranks, it's more than what a lot of the company's peers can claim: The average for black executives in 2016 was 1.4 percent.

Uber is filling another key role in its executive ranks just as the year turns.

For members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who arrived in the Bay Area on Monday, the tech sector has been too slow to diversify its executive ranks, invest in minority - owned start - ups and assist workers who can't find jobs in tech hubs, like San Francisco, or afford those cities» sky - high costs of living.

The move is part of a broader reshuffling of the airline's executive ranks.

But the report also raises questions about a company that does not seem willing to make big changes in its executive ranks despite the ongoing crisis.