Off-ramps and on-ramps : keeping talented women on the road to success / Sylvia Ann Hewlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the professions--United States.

Women in the professions.

Corporations.

United States.

Women--Employment--United States.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Corporations--United States--Case studies.

Working mothers--United States.

Working mothers.

Work and family--United States.

Work and family.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Keeping talented women on the road to success

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [2007]

Summary:

Hewlett showcases what an elite group of companies are doing differently to retain talented women who are leaving promising careers and key leadership positions in order to achieve better balance between family obligations and work.

Contents:

Foreword / by Carolyn Buck Luce

The challenge

Why mess with the male competitive model?

Women's non-linear careers

Extreme jobs, extreme demands

The business case for diversity

Models at the cutting edge

Establishing flexible work arrangements

Ernst & Young

BT Group

Citigroup

Creating arc-of-career flexibility

Booz Allen Hamilton

Lehman Brothers

Goldman Sachs

Reimagining work life

Time Warner

Johnson & Johnson

Claiming and sustaining ambition

General Electric

Tapping into altruism

Cisco Systems

American Express

Combating stigma and stereotypes

Canaries in the coal mine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.

ISBN:

9781422101025

1422101029

OCLC:

76820752

Publisher Number:

99935081567