Large corporations are starting to trip over each other in the race to assist women entrepreneurs in developing economies (not that you’ll hear us complaining – far from it)! There’s Coke’s 5 x 20 program, Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initiative, and Walmart’s Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative. Now jumping into the fray, with a pilot [...]
Posts Tagged ‘women's business development’
Google Joins the Women’s Enterprise Development Bandwagon … Cautiously
Posted in International development issues, women's business development, women's enterprise development, tagged empowering women, Goldman Sachs, Google, India, The Coca-Cola Company, Walmart, women's business development, women's entrepreneurship on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Federal Contracts Requiring Larger Investment for Small Businesses
Posted in business, federal procurement, tagged American Express OPEN, business, federal procurement, women's business development, Womenable on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new survey conducted among small business owners who are active federal government contractors finds that their investment of time and money seeking contracting opportunities has increased by 21% over the past year, as federal contract spending has declined 12%. This and other facts come from Trends in Federal Contracting for Small Businesses, a new [...]
Pearls from New GEM Women’s Report
Posted in women business owners, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women's business research studies, women-owned business, tagged Babson College, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, statistics, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new report on trends in women’s entrepreneurship, drawing on the multi-country Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys, has just been published by a team of researchers from Babson College. The GEM 2010 Women’s Report draws on data collected from surveys of over 175,000 adults in 59 countries, including 14,000 women business owners. As in previous GEM [...]
A Womenabling Manifesto
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, political advocacy, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, during Global Entrepreneurship Week, I kicked off the FastTrac Global Women’s Summit at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City with an opening address focused on the key global and domestic trends in women’s entrepreneurship today. So, naturally, I touched on some of the most recent knowledge from the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global [...]
Ruby – a Gem of a Women’s Entrepreneurship Program
Posted in business, women's business development, women's enterprise development, women's leadership, tagged business, corporate women's markets, Global Banking Alliance for Women, Ruby Connection, Westpac Bank, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, Womenable on October 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m just back from Oz, where I joined the board of a wonderful organization – the Global Banking Alliance for Women. Their annual summit, which brought together nearly 100 executives from financial institutions and financial inclusion NGOs from (by my count) 18 countries, was hosted this year in Sydney, Australia by one of the four [...]
