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C200 Sponsors Women’s Conference at Stanford GSB
On 30, Aug 2000 | In News | By Marcia K
News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION contact Cathy Castillo, News Director, 650-725-3238, Fax: 650-725-6750 August 30, 2000 Committee of 200 Cosponsors Women’s Conference STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL — Top women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders will share insights when they convene at the Business School this winter for the 2001 Women’s Conference. The Chicago-based Committee of 200 (C200), a group of preeminent businesswomen, is cosponsoring the event, titled “Perspectives: Views on Women in Business,” on February 3, with the School’s Alumni Office and the student group Women in Management. Founded in 1982, the Committee of 200 added an outreach foundation in 1986 and now has more than 400 members from 70 industries. They include entrepreneurs …
Making the move from bricks to clicks
On 01, Aug 2000 | In News | By Marcia K
Part of a guide to new technology distributed to Global 2000 Chief Executives Leading your company into e-commerce means thinking totally differently about how you do business. The world economy is undergoing a fundamental transformation at the start of the 21st century, one that raises both challenges and opportunities for companies and their CEOs. According to the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) Technology, Innovation and New Economy Project, some of the most obvious outward signs of change are, in fact, among the root causes of it: revolutionary technological advances, including powerful personal computers, high-speed telecommunications and the Internet. Hence some of its nicknames: “Digital Economy”, “Knowledge Economy”, “Weight-less Economy”. This New Economy, however, is about more …
