Tag: female leadership

Working closely with women entrepreneurs increased entrepreneurial confidence in female college students —and made them more likely to begin their careers at young firms. EDITOR'S NOTE: This Read more

What Family Businesses in Africa Can Teach Us About Women Leaders

Large family firms in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, and Madagascar show that women’s leadership can thrive when families widen their view of succession. In many parts of the world, businesses are Read more

Pop culture is pedagogically potent in this engaging semester-long honors course, which has received rave reviews from students. Entrepreneurial education often draws from case studies of business 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

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