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		<title>Hunting and Gathering: Networking with Men</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never been fond of the imagery associated with the phrase “hunting and gathering,” conjuring up visions of big cavemen-types hurling spears at bison, while their female companions gingerly pick berries nearby. In fact, research has shown that this is often a bit more of a stereotype than a hard-wired reality. For example, a study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nike Launches GreenXchange for Corporate Idea-Sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainability is one area where trade secrets don&#8217;t make much sense&#8211;if you hide your energy-saving initiatives from competitors, you&#8217;re hurting the planet and preventing your entire industry from reaching green goals. That&#8217;s why Nike has partnered with nine organizations, including Yahoo, Best Buy, Creative Commons, IDEO, Mountain Equipment Co-Op, nGenera, Outdoor Industry Association, salesforce.com, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Encourage Small Innovations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement of Apple&#8217;s iPad is turning many people&#8217;s thoughts to the innovations behind big ideas. Innovations such as these play a critical role in a company&#8217;s future, but companies often hinder themselves by focusing on finding the next big thing, when in reality, the next small thing might be more beneficial.
The more that employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accenture Survey Finds Millennial Women Particularly Optimistic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Against a backdrop of economic volatility, the vast majority of young professional women believe they will have rewarding careers balanced with fulfilling personal lives, according to research released by Accenture.
The research also generated the Accenture Millennial Women Workplace Success Index, which identified two primary qualities as key to workplace success — the ability to balance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Women Into Boardrooms, by Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arni Hole remembers the shock wave that went through Norway’s business community in 2002 when the country’s trade and industry minister, Ansgar Gabrielsen, proposed a law requiring that 40 percent of all company board members be women.
Are quotas like the one in Norway necessary to promote women in the business world?
“There were, literally, screams,” said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to innovate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apply a mindset of scarcity and resourcefulness, and bring about a revolution. Are you listening, health-care industry reformers?
When I was a product design student at San Jose State in 1978, our senior project was to reduce the cost of health care. Aside from my design training, another experience guided my decision-making: the fact that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Emerging Markets: Tap Into Their Talent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I looked around the conference room at Pfizer&#8217;s regional headquarters in Dubai, I was stunned by the view. No, not the view of the Palm Jumeirah artificial island or the sail-shaped Burj al Arab skyscraper, but something much closer.
Sitting around me were eight Pfizer senior executives, including the finance director and the head of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of the City</title>
		<link>http://www.bidiversity.com/2010/01/the-future-of-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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With more than half the world&#8217;s population now living in urban centers, we need to confront the economic, technological and societal challenges of city life, writes IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano. To pave the way for future growth, Palmisano argues, we need better public-private collaboration, universal standards for infrastructure systems and greater regulatory openness. &#8220;Every city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Lonely at the Top</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decade after the introduction of sex discrimination laws, there are still hardly any women on top executive boards. Stephanie Bunbury from Australia&#8217;s The Age, talks to some of the chosen few about why this is. 
ONE woman, a company director who sits on several corporate boards, remembers the time she and some of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Accountability is What Matters: Achieving Critical Mass with Targets or Quotas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2010, the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration. It was at this meeting in China that a group of 50,000 people representing 189 governments actively agreed a goal to increase women in leadership positions.
The magic number became known as the [...]]]></description>
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