Fashionably Great: Highlights from First-Ever Industrial Wearable Fashion Show in Pittsburgh, PA – USA
The ensembles we showed off at our inaugural fashion won't turn heads on a Parisian catwalk, but the safety and productivity they provide should get some attention on the factory floor. In what sounded like a prank but absolutely was not, on April 1, IndustryWeek put on the first-ever [...]
IWEC Connections Leads to Janine Myburgh’s Appointment to the Honorary Council for Canada in Cape Town South Africa
Through IWEC connections in Peru, Janine was recommended for the post One never knows where introductions may lead you! Congratulations to Janine Myburgh, CEO, Myburgh Attorneys Inc and former president of the Cape Chamber, South Africa for her recent appointment as Honorary Council to Canada from Cape Town. It [...]
Meet Seven Women Who are Transforming the World
Cartier's Women's Initiative Award Winners are announced from around the world. As reported by Star2.com Even as a young girl growing up in the Philippines, Carmina Bayombong was aware of how painfully difficult it was for children from poor families to go to university. Banks would not give them [...]
Tackling the Global Profitarchy; Gender and the Choice of Business Sector
Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits. Women tend to sort into different sectors than men, and the sectors dominated by women tend to be less profitable-Gender and the Choice of Business Sector by Markus Goldstein, Paula [...]
How Female Business Leaders Can Combat Prejudice And Inspire Greater Success
These are just some of the ways that female business leaders can combat prejudice and inspire greater success By keeping these in mind, you can ensure not only a great place to work, but will also inspire success in others — both inside and outside your business. By Kayleigh [...]
Making Empathy Central to Your Company Culture
In Tim Cook’s 2017 MIT commencement address, he warned graduates, “People will try to convince you that you should keep empathy out of your career. Don’t accept this false premise.” The Apple CEO is not alone in recognizing and emphasizing the importance of empathy — the ability to share and understand others’ [...]
Fascinating Nobel Prize Winner – Frances Arnold Turns Microbes Into Living Factories
Instead of synthesizing new biochemicals from scratch, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist puts nature to the task — with astonishing results. The engineer’s mantra, said Frances Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, is: “Keep it simple, stupid.” But Dr. Arnold, who last year became [...]
BOARD MONITOR US 2019: WHAT’S CHANGED IN 10 YEARS, WHAT HASN’T, AND WHAT’S NEXT
Over the past decade, the percentage of new director appointments to Fortune 500 boards that went to women more than doubled. Yet the percentage of women overall on those boards has remained stubbornly low according to the board monitor conducted by Heidrick & Struggles In 2009, the first year [...]
ITC and UPS Set to Equip Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria – Kudos to These IWEC Partners
The International Trade Centre (ITC) and UPS (NYSE:UPS), announced a series of training seminars and workshops for women business owners, as part of the Nigeria chapter of ITC’s SheTrades initiative. The collaboration aims to increase the participation of women-owned businesses in trade by improving their competitiveness, providing solutions for [...]
Climate Change Is Transforming the Economy. How Will Your Company Adapt?
Until organizations learn to internalize the threat, they’re in danger of falling behind So...are businesses prepared? by: Kellogg Insight | Jun 04, 2019 for Industry Week In case the wildfires, hurricanes, fatal winters, and U.N. reports weren’t enough to convince business leaders to care about climate change, the World Economic Forum—for [...]