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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business

We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014. Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. The average coaching engagement lasted six to 12 months.

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What Board Directors Really Think of Gender Quotas

Harvard Business

The largest companies are required to set a target for the number of women on their board, but there are no clear guidelines on what that number should be. To better understand perceptions of quotas, we interviewed over 60 male and female directors in both the U.S. In Europe, Denmark is another outlier. Let’s start with Denmark.