Some of Australia’s top boards still view women directors as symbolic appointments to polish their company’s image or as a risk, reports the Australian Financial Review (AFR). The results of a recent survey by Egon Zehnder International also reveal a widespread belief that women directors contribute less value than their male counterparts. A lack of .... |
Carol SingletonSlade, a consultant at Egon Zehnder International, Houston, was recently invited to address a luncheon organised by the Women's Energy Network (WEN) at the Houston Petroleum Club. In her speech entitled "Ten-Year Talent Strategies-Shaping a Bright Future in Energy" SingletonSlade discussed the future of the industry, as well as the core .... |
When financial markets weaken, smart investors with a long-term perspective make highly strategic buys. They know that when the inevitable upturn occurs the carefully targeted investments that they made during lean times will pay off handsomely. Indeed, those investments will be seen in retrospect as a great bargain and the investors as having had great .... |
Vacancies at two prestigious cultural institutions in the Netherlands were filled recently with the help of Egon Zehnder International, after earlier similarly important cooperations in the cultural sector. Working on a partly pro bono basis, the firm’s consultants helped find a new chairman for the Nederlandse Opera, one of the world’s leading opera .... |
