Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business

Lisa Hetfield, Dana M. Britton

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780813565934
• eBook ISBN: 9780813575735
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

How have women managed to break through the glass ceiling of the business world, and what management techniques do they employ once they ascend to the upper echelons of power? What difficult situations have these female business leaders faced, and what strategies have they used to resolve those challenges?    Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Business answers these questions by highlighting the professional accomplishments of twelve remarkable women and examining how they responded to critical leadership challenges. Some of the figures profiled in the book are household names, including lifestyle maven Martha Stewart, influential chef Alice Waters, and trailblazing African-American entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker. Others have spent less time in the public eye, such as Johnson & Johnson executive JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, Verizon Senior Vice President Diane McCarthy, Wells Fargo technology leader Avid Modjtabai, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, inventor Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, engineering firm President Roseline Marston, Calvert Investments President and CEO Barbara Krumsiek, and Merrill Lynch executive Subha Barry. These women, from diverse backgrounds, have played important roles in their respective corporations and many have worked to improve the climate for women in male-dominated industries.    This is a book about women who are leading change in business. Their stories illuminate the ways women are using their power and positions—whether from the middle ranks or the top, whether from within companies or by creating their own companies.  Each case study in Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Business includes a compelling and instructive story of how a woman business leader handled a critical juncture or crisis in her career.  Not only does the book offer an inspiring composite portrait of women succeeding in the business world, it also provides leadership lessons that will benefit readers regardless of gender.  

Index

A. D. Marble & Company, 174–184; employee flexibility in, 179–180; employee surveys in, 178–179; as ESOP, 170, 176–181, 184n5; during Great Recession, 181–183. See also Marston, Roseline

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), 102, 103–104

affirmative action, 95–96

African Americans: Merrill Lynch and, 195, 201; Xerox and, 95–97. See also Burns, Ursula; Walker, Madam C. J.

agriculture, 114–115, 116, 117

Aid & Comfort (restaurant benefit), 119

AIDS epidemic, 119

Alice’s Restaurant, 112

Allaire, Paul, 99, 100

Alliance Capital LP (Equitable Capital Management Corporation), 154–155, 157, 158

ambition, perception of women’s, 158

American Academy in Rome, 121

American Association of University Women, 160

American Banker ranking, 136

American Can Company, 5–6

Arte Américas Miami, 196

Art of Simple Food II, The: Recipes, Flavor and Inspiration from the New Kitchen Garden (Waters), 121–122

Ashby, Roger, 79, 82

Assets (Spanx budget line), 25–26

Association of Indian Technologists, 195

Atlanta Compromise speech (Washington), 46, 52

AT&T, xii, 166

autism, 200–201

Bacanovic, Peter, 144

Bank of America Group, 186, 201–202

Barry, Subha, xii, xiv, 186–203; book of business of, 189–190, 191; cancer diagnosis of, 190–191, 196; career advancement of, 186, 190, 198; early life of, 187–188; family life of, 187–188, 190; founding of Multicultural and Diversified Business Development Group, 186, 193–203; at Freddie Mac, 202; as global head of diversity, 198–201; hiring by Merrill Lynch, 188–189; retirement of, 202. See also ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword to the Series
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• JoAnn Heffernan Heisen: Enabling Women’s Leadership at Johnson & Johnson
• Sara Blakely: Reinventing Women’s Shapewear with Spanx
• Madam C. J. Walker: Leadership Grounded in Social and Racial Uplift
• Diane McCarthy: Responding to Crisis through Connected Leadership at Verizon
• Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh: Changing the World through Participatory Design
• Ursula Burns: Restructuring an American Icon at Xerox
• Alice Waters: Transforming American Food
• Avid Modjtabai: Leading Change at Wells Fargo
• Martha Stewart: The Rise, Fall, and Comeback of a Brand
• Barbara Krumsiek: Putting Social Responsibility on the Investment Agenda
• Roseline Marston: Navigating Transition in an Employee-Owned Firm at A. D. Marble & Company
• Subha Barry: Changing the Cultural DNA at Merrill Lynch
• Contributors
• Index