Women in Leadership
QS TopMBA looks at the ever-topical issue of women in the workplace
Women, MBAs and Senior Management
QS speaks to Erin Biertzer, UK Retail Banking Director at Barclays on the growing number of women leveraging the MBA as a means of accessing senior management [more]
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Serena Vaturi - Barclays Bank
Name: Serena Vaturi
Qualification: Bachelor Computer Science
MBA SDA Bocconi
School of Study: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year of Graduation: 1987, 1993
Current employment: Barclays Global Retail & Commercial Banking Italy IT & Operation Director. Responsible for efficient... [more]
Women, MBAs and Senior Management: A recipe for success?
The potentially cutthroat nature of the business world has for many years seemed to caution women away from excelling in that male-dominated environment. Sprinkle on the common perceptions of a poor return on work/life balance in business, a lack of support networks for women and the desire to... [more]
QS Diversity in Leadership and Women in Leadership
Once again the QS Leadership Forums are hosting their flagship London event as part of the 2007 world tour. [more]
Women in Leadership Forums: Connecting ambitious women with the companies that need them
The QS Women in Leadership Forums are a ground-breaking innovation by QS, creators of the World MBA Tour, that brings the female leaders of the future in touch with the big-hitting recruiters that value their leadership skills and abilities. [more]
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Corporations demand more women in the boardroom
Fewer than 10% of the world’s top 300 companies’ board members and directors are women, according to a recent study conducted by Ricol Lasteyrie and Associates. What’s even more alarming is that very few European companies have female Chairs or CEOs. According to The European Professional Women’s... [more]
Successful women guarantee that the ‘War for Talent’ will be fought on two fronts.
The potentially cutthroat nature of the business world has for many years seemed to caution women away from excelling in that male-dominated environment. And the ‘glass ceiling’ phenomenon, where women can see what is going on above them but are unable to get there, is widely reported and there are... [more]
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Booz Allen Hamilton: Careers for Women
With offices in over 100 countries and staff representing more than 90 different nationalities, Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the most diverse organisations operating in the consultancy sector. However, despite its strong record of recruiting and retaining a relatively high proportion of female... [more]
High Ambitions, Low Expectations: Businesswomen still don’t expect to earn as much as men
Women in business. The rhetoric around gender discrimination and the gender wage gap in the workforce could just be that in some cases, but data continues to reinforce the fact that women are consistently paid less than men. According to QS TopMBA research, women with the MBA qualification expect... [more]
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Breaking through the glass ceiling
Across the business world, the face of the professional workforce is changing. After years of under-representation at all but the most junior levels, women are taking up a significant proportion of management positions and are even penetrating the boardrooms of major international companies. [more]
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