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Gender Equality In U.K. Financial Leadership At Least 14 Years Away

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million people have signed up for the ministry’s Women in Finance Charter — an initiative launched in 2016 to increase the number of women in senior roles. The finance ministry’s report states that “charter signatories have increased female representation to 35% on average, up from 34% in 2022”.

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Business Spotlight: How Cox Enterprises Successfully Promotes Sustainable Employee Behavior

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Cox Conserves and You is an employee engagement platform that promotes sustainable actions and behaviors. It’s about rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. Since 2010, Team Cox volunteers have picked up more than 29 tons of debris from beaches and waterways. We engage our employees through a variety of programs.

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How One Entrepreneur Capitalized on a Niche Singles Market: Jewish People on Christmas Eve

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He and a friend thought up a name: the Matzoball ® , in reference to the starchy ball in the center of the traditional Jewish comfort soup. After ample marketing (he even delivered matzo ball soup to radio stations so the DJs would let him promote his party), he sat back and hoped for the best. It was a huge success ,” he says.

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3 Ways to Discover Your True Passion

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In January 2016, the New York Times caught onto the work of Bernard Roth, professor of mechanical engineering and academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, who figured out how design thinking could help the many millions of people who feel stuck —at work, in a relationship and so on—“get unstuck.”

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Angelos Michalopoulos and Vassiliki Petridou Own a Third of Ios Island in Greece—Here’s Why They Won’t Develop More than 1% of It

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As Greek natives, they grew up with an appreciation for nature. In 2004, the couple began purchasing land before opening Agalia hotel and Calilo resort in 2016 and 2019, respectively. LuxurIOS , the duo’s hospitality company, which manages Calilo, promotes sustainable tourism in Greece. Michalopoulos was raised in Athens.

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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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Jamie Fiore Higgins worked on Wall Street for nearly 20 years—from 1998 to 2016—and by the end of her career, she’d amassed a small fortune. By 2016, she was making 40 times more than her house cleaner and 10 times more than her doctor. They all said to suck it up, push through the pain and persevere.

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5 Ways Women Can Support Each Other at Work

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Network up, down and sideways. But it’s labor that’s not likely to earn a bonus or a promotion for the person undertaking them. Or, more insidiously, she will make a point or proposal, it will be glossed over, and 10 minutes later a man will make the same proposal—which is then taken up. Who gathers money for gifts?

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