Monday, June 28, 2021

Block Off Your Morning and Plan How You Are Going to Handle Your Inevitable Cyberattack

Have you hired your first Chief Risk Officer (CRO)?  You might want to start considering.  This is the new robbery.  Here's a crash course on protecting your company from ransomware, deep fakes, and other cybersecurity threats.  It starts with addressing 4 critical questions that you need to answer.

Monday, June 21, 2021

Remap Fear Into Opportunity

Ali Kriegsman, co-founder of Bulletin online marketplace, chronicles her entrepreneurial journey – warts and all – in her debut book, “How to Build a Goddamn Empire,” which details her path from corporate employee to pivoting and scaling a major business. The book features stories and advice from 30 other female founders who built companies of various sizes and stages.

Learn more about how to push past fear and remap it into opportunity.

Monday, June 14, 2021

"I might be the first, but I’m not going to be the last," says President Terry Wheatley

This week marks a big moment for Vintage Wine Estates. Not only is the wine producer going public with a $690 million IPO, but the company’s president Terry Wheatley will also be making history as the first woman to take an American multi-hundred-million-dollar producer public.

 "I might be the first, but I’m not going to be the last," says Terry Wheatley, President, Vintage Wine Estates.

She goes on to say:

“I look at my career and the time spent to get where I’ve gotten, and I’m mentoring young women now. Their careers are accelerating so much faster. There aren’t the hurdles that I had coming through the industry and when I describe them to them, they’re, I don’t want to say surprised and shocked, but some of the wars that I’ve been through, they don’t have to fight those battles. We fought them for them, so now their careers are accelerating I think twice as fast or three times as fast as what mine did. So, I won’t be the last woman taking a company, a multimillion-dollar company public. There will be more after me and probably in a rapid pace because more and more women are rising to the C-suite level.”

Read the entire article here.

Monday, June 07, 2021

Breaking Gender Barriers and Building Thriving Businesses

A case study by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, examines what it takes to break gender barriers and build thriving businesses in an emerging startup hub.

About the case study and Professor Kanter

The challenges of creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future. According to a recent case study by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, their experiences permit an inside look at pushing past barriers.

Read the entire article here.