Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 2, Myth: Women's Skills and Experience Matter More Than Communication Style and Appearance, argues that women are frequently viewed as less competent, less experienced, and as having less impact on the work they are performing based on their appearance and communication style. It then proposes ways for women to overcome these biases.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 3 Myth: If Women Are Assertive and Drive for Results, It Will Always Benefit Their Careers argues that women who are assertive are perceived less favorably than men are. It then offers strategies for overcoming this bias.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 4: Myth: Advancement for Women Is Only Dependent on Performing Well identifies numerous reasons why women often do not get the recognition they deserve for superior performance. It then offers strategies for advancing one's career.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 5: Myth: Women Can Expect to Be Compensated Fairly and Awarded for Their Contributions to the Workplace argues that women should not expect to be compensated fairly and discusses reasons for such treatment. It then offers strategies for addressing this inequity.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 6: Myth: Men and Women Believe in Equality for Women argues that although many men and women support women's equality, they have unconscious biases that keep them from seeing women as equal. It then suggests methods for countering this bias.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 7: Myth: Women Can Have It All-Work and Life Balance explores the difficulties women experience in balancing their personal and professional lives. It then suggests methods for women to determine what matters most in their lives so that they can mitigate the stress they experience.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 8: Myth: Women Are Supportive of Each Other, Men Compete identifies some of the ways that women do not always support each other in the workplace. It then suggests some ways to address the challenges of workplace incivility.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 9: Myth: Both Men and Women Are Perceived as Equally Effective Leaders argues that many employees are biased against seeing men as effective leaders. It then proposes methods for women to improve both their leadership skills and others' perceptions of their ability to lead.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 10: Myth: When Women Report Inappropriate Behavior Such as Harassment or Bullying, the Behavior Will Stop highlights how commonly women are harassed and bullied in the workplace, and how little is done to address these behaviors. It then offers some options for women to address these issues while prioritizing their safety, health, and welfare.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 11: Putting It All Together in a Development Plan offers guidance about putting together insights about overcoming the myths previous chapters explored and putting them together in a plan for achieving greater career success.

Breakthrough Career Strategies for Women's Success is a 12-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2019 and written by Saundra Stroope, who is a consultant and coach with over 20 years of human capital experience. In this book, the author explains how although the number of women entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from those of their male counterparts. Women sometimes have beliefs or career myths that may interfere with their personal career satisfaction and success. A survey of more than 180 women, interviews with over a dozen influential women in leadership and professional roles validated career myths that have an impact on their satisfaction at work and career success. The women also provide helpful tips, advice, and recommendations for helping women overcome challenges and achieve career success. This book explores the barriers that women may encounter at work and offers you an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and development areas and create a plan for moving toward greater satisfaction and success in your career. Chapter 12: Moving Beyond the Myth suggests the need for dialogue between women and men about issues the book raises as a way to help women advance.

Set in 2018, the case describes how Zang Hao, the CEO and co-founder of Iuiga, a Singapore based e-commerce start-up, eschewed the conventional e-retailing model by acquiring complete control over its value chain including ownership of the items retailed through the adoption of original design manufacturer (ODM) business model and marketing of its brand in addition to storage, logistics, and distribution. Under the ODM model, Iuiga contracts the manufacturers of large global brands known for their superior quality to manufacture the same products for Iuiga, and then proceeds to retail it directly under its own brand name at much lower, and transparent, prices on its online platform. By targeting quality-conscious customers with a range of products in the home and living category, Iuiga's sales grew fivefold within the first eight months of its launch. However, soon after, the sales growth began to plateau. One of the key reasons identified for the slowdown was the limited market reach of the brand due to its presence only on the online medium. With e-commerce penetration in Singapore at only 5 percent, the majority of the consumer market lacked awareness of the Iuiga brand and the value it offered. This led the company to consider creating an omni-channel presence by opening a pop-up store to drive face-to-face customer engagement and boost Iuiga's brand building efforts. However, this raised many concerns. Would Iuiga's current team be able to manage both the online portal and the pop-up store? With the omni-channel platform entailing unavoidable additional expenses such as rental, people, services and integration costs, would it undermine the strength of Iuiga's core business model? Also, the brick & mortar space was an unchartered territory for its management team, with no prior experience to bank upon. Most importantly, would Iuiga be able to convert the offline footfall to online traffic?

In 2013, Educate Girls (an Indian nonprofit working to increase the number of girls enrolled and learning in school), partnered with Instiglio, a startup specializing in financial instruments for social programs in developing countries to create the first Development Impact Bond-a financial instrument similar to a Social Impact Bond. UBS Optimus, a Swiss foundation, agreed to act as the investor and the London-based Children's Investment Fund Foundation would reimburse UBS Optimus' initial investment and pay returns if Educate Girls met or exceeded a set of predetermined goals. Instiglio would broker the deal and IDinsight, a new evaluation organization would conduct the evaluation. Agreeing on the evaluation design, however, proved challenging. An evaluation was vital to the DIB because success payments hinged on its findings, but Educate Girls was concerned that the investors and evaluators were not considering the realities of program implementation when proposing complex evaluation methods. Whereas, the investors and evaluators were not interested in backing a DIB where the impact findings could be open to question. This case places students in the decision room with the DIB parties and asks them to grapple with the tradeoffs social organizations and evaluators often have to face. The 8-minute video supplement can be used toward the end of the class discussion to reveal to students how the parties resolved their differences and signed on to the DIB.

This case explores the interplay of global corporations, management styles, and local traditions through the high profile arrest of auto industry icon, Carlos Ghosn, in November, 2018. The case allows students to debate opposing theories that led to the arrest, and examines several key themes, such as leadership challenges in an increasingly global market, role of culture, and the design and role of incentive and governance mechanisms. The case also allows for discussions on personal accountability in light of misbehavior.

Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy's founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments with cleaners at a convenient time and check the cleaner's ratings. Started in 2012 after the founders struggled to find trustworthy, affordable cleaning services while MBA students, by 2015, Handy enjoyed considerable success. Handy was one of the emerging platform companies in the gig economy that connected customers to service providers and sought to disrupt everything from transportation to grocery shopping to deliveries. Like many of these companies, Handy classified service providers as 1099 independent contractors, rather than hiring them as W-2 employees. Doing so often meant lower labor costs for companies and greater flexibility for workers. The companies' reliance on contractors was controversial. Workers, some argued, displayed all the marks of employees - they performed work that was integral to the companies' business and companies exercised control by telling them which jobs to accept and where and by using ratings systems to influence behavior. Facing two misclassification lawsuits of their own while still pushing toward profitability, Handy's founders must decide how to respond.

In August 2017, the Myanmar military commenced a brutal pogrom of the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The genocidal campaign marked the most recent and decisive of a series of ethnic cleansing efforts fueled by contention around race, religion, and national identity. Yet the violence came as a shock to the international world, who had watched Myanmar emerge out of a decades-long oppressive military dictatorship into an economically and socially liberalizing democracy in recent years.<br/><br/> Within three months, neighboring Bangladesh found themselves the home of 750,000 Rohingya who had fled across the border. A developing nation of 165 million, it struggled to allocate resources to what became the largest refugee camp in the world. As the Myanmar government navigated international outcry against and domestic support for the violence, Bangladesh navigated its next steps: should it allow the refugees to remain, or should they send them back? And what role did international actors, many of whom had economic stakes within Myanmar, play in this humanitarian crisis?

Yulife is a digital-first life insurance and rewards company that is seeking to disrupt the centuries-old life insurance market. Its founders are a combination of insurance industry veterans and executives in finance, wealth management and gaming. The challenge the company faces is that it cannot go to market alone: it has to work in some capacity with industry incumbents to achieve the growth it seeks. The case provides detail on yulife's goal of transforming the industry by focusing on the consumer; on improving their health. It also provides an overview of the life insurance industry which, in many ways, has been unchanged since its founding over four centuries ago. The challenge for yulife is how it can navigate the relationships and requirements in the industry so as to allow its consumer- and technology-focused offering to thrive.

In March 2015 London-based management consultancy Clarasys found itself in crisis. Established in 2011, the company had experienced consistent growth since foundation and had expanded staffing levels to service new business accordingly. But it was still in start-up phase and a perfect storm of events had suddenly hit the firm: two potential growth projects were unexpectedly shelved, meaning almost 50% of consultants were no longer on billable client projects, and the company accountants admitted to having made a serious mistake in VAT payments, which meant Clarasys had to make a double payment, for two years' VAT returns, at the same time.

Co-founded by Raghav Kapoor in Singapore in 2014, Smartkarma was an innovative e-commerce-based independent platform for providing investment research - conceived in response to changes in banking industry regulations post the 2008 financial crisis. New industry regulations required investment research to be a separate entity from sales in banks and financial institutions. Consequently, large investment banks looking to slash cost centres had started to outsource investment research. Smartkarma used a Subscription based business model. Independent analysts could publish research content on the platform and client organisations brought monthly subscriptions to access all content. Analysts were paid based on revenues generated from their content, determined by quantified value add (QVA) calculation model. By the end of 2017, Smartkarma had established itself as Asia's largest investment research platform with more than 14,000 insights across several verticals. It had also expanded geographically, establishing offices in Hong Kong, Frankfurt, and London. Smartkarma's CEO and co-founder, Kapoor, however, was aware that the firm's business model was susceptible to several risk factors, including very short-term client commitment, economic downturns and industry regulations. Kapoor chose a strategy of quickly acquiring as many clients as possible, as well as continuously building a pool of insight providers to create an early mover market advantage. Would Smartkarma be able to scale from being an Asian leader to dominate globally? Ease of entry, informational efficiency, and simplicity in replicating an independent investment platform, made it extremely difficult for such a business to beat the market on a sustained basis. Would focusing on the quality of research and transparent payment be enough to make Smartkarma the choice for asset managers in large banks? Could the company's subscription-based business model stand the test of time?

Volatility in an industry should concern not only the companies within it but also the people who work for them. To stay ahead of developments that may disrupt your professional life, you must make two evidence-based diagnoses: How volatile is your industry? And what explains the volatility? The answers will equip you to disrupt your own career preemptively