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...Then she attended a workshop at GE organized by Deborah Elam, GE's newly appointed chief diversity officer. Elam, who is African-American, felt the lack of organized support for women of color in the upper ranks at GE, and put together what she called the Multicultural Women's Initiative-one aspect of which targets high-potential women like Ho for a weekend-long bootcamp. Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her win a tough, new assignment as chief operating officer for equipment services in China...
...economic growth. Mumbai is often considered the nation’s financial and media capital. Ajay S. Mookerjee, who earned a doctorate in business administration from HBS in 1988, will serve as the Center’s executive director. He has also held positions at several financial firms, including GE Capital, the American International Group, and Capital One. A native of India, Mookerjee said that he has high hopes for the nation’s future and that studying the region is essential to expanding HBS’ international focus. “An increasingly important player in the global...
...make sure we were in compliance." That has changed. Instead of just going through the motions, the Fairfield, Conn., company began affinity groups for minorities 15 years ago. But when Elam, 44, took the helm as chief diversity officer three years ago, she recognized a specific need to improve GE's record in retaining and promoting minority women. She launched the Multicultural Women's Initiative, among whose programs is an annual boot camp that teaches the secrets of success to promising minority women. Since its inception three years ago, one-third of attendees have received promotions...
Vicki Ho, 42, is one of them. To make it in GE's famously competitive culture, Ho says she needed to shed her Asian-style modesty. In her Taiwanese household, she was raised never to boast of her accomplishments. She entered the corporate world in the U.S. as an unwitting embodiment of stereotypical Asian female behavior--"diminutive, submissive, that whole geisha thing you get tagged with," she says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here...
...youngest category, which most connoisseurs skip (or relegate to the punch bowl). V.S.O.P., or Réserve, Cognacs contain spirits at least 41/2 years old. While this can be a pleasant category, for gifting you will want to upgrade to Napoléon, Impérial, Hors d'âge, Vieille Réserve, Vernerable or X.O. These are all terms used for older Cognacs in which the youngest spirits are at least 61/2 years...