Elevate - for business leaders
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
video,
interview,
leadership,
Jo Fairley,
Green & Black's,
ethical
Jo Fairley co-founded a chocolate empire. Here she talks about what she learnt from launching Green & Blacks Organic Chocolate and growing it into a global ethical brand. We’ve also pulled out 10 tips based on her experience and insights.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
interview,
leadership,
Jo Fairley,
Green & Black's,
ethical,
organic
Chocoholic entrepreneur Josephine Fairley talks about how she co-founded Green & Black’s organic chocolate during the 1991 recession, built it into a global ethical brand and helped pioneer the modern concept of ethical business. “Which,” she says, “only goes to show there are opportunities as well as challenges for businesses in difficult times like these…”
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector,
Technology sector,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
digital,
CEO,
insight,
advice,
video,
interview,
online,
social media,
marketing,
advertising,
leadership,
internet,
Elevate magazine,
YouTube,
social business,
viral,
Sarah Wood,
web
Sarah Wood started her first business aged 13; now 38, she is the Winner of the 2011 Fast Growth Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award. But you’ll know her better from her social media work, turning brand campaigns such as Compare the Market/Meerkat and Evian’s Roller Babies into viral hits. In true tech entrepreneur style, she sent her interview answers in via smartphone from the middle of a Cambridge conference…
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
statistics,
research,
women in business,
CEO,
IBR,
boardroom,
women,
success,
board,
gender,
management,
equality,
database,
international business report,
senior management,
PHBs
Today marks the 100th International Women’s Day but it seems there’s still much to strive for when it comes to equality in business, as new Grant Thornton figures reveal the proportion of women in senior management has fallen back to 2004 levels.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
My Big Decision,
Sahar Hashemi,
founder,
Coffee Republic
She’s the woman who plugged the caffeine cravings of a nation when, together with her brother, Bobby, she founded Coffee Republic in 1995. Now in Grant Thornton’s
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Monday, May 10, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
tips,
corporate,
My Big Decision,
customers,
Bobby Hashemi,
Sahar Hashemi,
Pret a Manger,
Coffee Republic
Sahar Hashemi is the co-founder of Coffee Republic, one of the most powerful women in British business and author of new book for entrepreneurs, Switched On . She’s also the subject of Grant Thornton’s next
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Friday, April 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Women in business
| Tags: links,
women in business,
Twitter,
boardroom,
energy,
social media,
Facebook,
LinkedIn,
CEOs,
demographics,
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Digg,
Ford,
carbon emissions
Which business stories are getting the most hits on the web this month? Read on and discover Elevate blog’s pick of the links for big business – from benchmarking your chief exec’s salary to the high cost of leaving company PCs switched on, and more…
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Financing ,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
investment,
entrepreneur,
technology,
digital,
women in business,
CEO,
financing,
My Big Decision,
Julie Meyer,
Ariadne Capital,
First Tuesday,
backing,
dot com,
Dragon’s Den
Setting up a technology-oriented investment firm just six months after the dot com bubble burst may sound like risky business. But as entrepreneur and BBC Dragon Julie Meyer explains, in Grant Thornton’s
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Infographic,
Thought Leadership,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
statistics,
research,
Ros Simmons,
infographic,
women in business,
CEO,
data,
chart,
IBR,
boardroom,
women,
management,
senior management,
PHBs,
discrimination
How many women made the C-Suite last year? Which countries are currently topping the list for employing female senior-level female executives? Find out in
Grant Thornton’s latest infographic, which maps figures from 24 countries. On a shocking note, neither the UK nor the US even makes the top 20…
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
recession,
entrepreneur,
financial,
tips,
forecasts,
Julie Meyer,
business plan,
Ariadne Capital,
fixed cost,
cause,
leader,
Dragons’ Den
.
She is the founder of Ariadne Capital, a technology-orientated investment firm, a Dragon on the BBC’s online Dragons’ Den and, according to the Wall Street Journal “one of the top 30 Most Powerful Women in Europe”. She’s also the subject of Grant Thornton’s next
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector,
Women in business
| Tags: recession,
entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
recruitment,
management buy-out,
maternity leave,
downturn,
consultants,
commission,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
Steering a business through a recession can’t be easy. So we asked our female CEO,
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership,
Women in business
| Tags: boardroom,
women,
income,
international business report
A rise of only 1% from 2007 meant that just 66% of privately held businesses (PHBs) in the UK have women in the boardroom, according to the latest research from Grant Thornton.
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