Strategic Management
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The decision-making process can be pretty lonely for small business owners who often have few, if any, employees or partners to act as critical sounding boards. Women entrepreneurs at the Indian School of Business have been able to build a logical decision-making strategy in their minds through setting formal targets and business planning. The result -- increased profits and expanded product lines.
The Graduate School of Media Design -- also known as Keio Media Design or KMD -- is a school within Keio University in Tokyo that focuses on training top creative industry managers. Through its partnership with
10,000 Women, KMD trained faculty members from
10,000 Women partners around the globe to teach creative industry management. Professors traveled from Africa, the Philippines, China, Brazil, Egypt and other countries in November 2010 to attend a week of workshops at KMD. Inspired by new ways of thinking, they are bringing their learning back to the classroom.
10,000 Women scholar Olusola Adegbesan networked during the certificate program at Pan African University's Enterprise Development Services and scored a contact with Mr. Biggs, a major food chain in Nigeria. She inked the deal to supply her company's rice and flour products through service, samples and repeated follow up visits, valuable strategies for small business suppliers who need to attract and maintain big-name contracts.
Most Japanese women have more opportunities than women in other less-developed nations to become highly educated before starting businesses. And yet, to be on the cutting edge of innovation and the growth of creative industries, Japanese entrepreneurs are looking to The Graduate School of Media Design -- also known as Keio Media Design or KMD -- a young program at Keio University in Tokyo that focuses on training top creative industry managers. Through its partnership with
10,000 Women, KMD trained faculty members from
10,000 Women partners around the globe in teaching creative industry management.
On a pleasant winter evening in 2009, several dozen men and women gathered at the Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of a family business that has grown from a one-stop shop in Basra to a wholesale and retail venture that spans the Middle East. The Jashanmal Group is now run by the fourth generation.
While entrepreneurs around the world are producing unique, high-quality products, customers still often clamor for variety. Instructors at the Goldman Sachs
10,000 Women program in Kabul, Afghanistan, urge scholars to listen to their customers' needs and conduct feasibility analyses so they know how to best diversify their merchandise. These and other strategies help entrepreneurs survive in a competitive market.
How a Nigerian handbag designer built the confidence to go international with her own self-titled collection by getting the opportunity in 2009 to glimpse design greatness through the
Fortune – U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. The partnership mentors women like Femi Olayebi in how to become successful, courageous business leaders.
Women entrepreneurs in the Indian School of Business 10,000 Women program have learned to be conscious about the impact of their pricing. When is the right time to increase the price of your products and services? Bangalore-based business scholars, including a successful chocolate truffle maker, address how they arrived at their pricing decisions and added value to maintain customer loyalty.
INSEAD business school in France and Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) in Brazil recently celebrated 20 years of partnership. Even that rich history of collaboration, however, did not prepare them for the new insights into their role as business educators that they would gain from participation in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program. As a result, both INSEAD and FDC are redefining their approach to effective entrepreneurship training as they set up and deliver the 10,000 Women curriculum.
While social norms in India once discouraged, if not rejected, the notion of husbands and wives running businesses together, today an increasing number of women appear to be working alongside their husbands. A few such enterprising couples share their perspectives on his-and-her entrepreneurship and the challenges of balancing the demands of their professional and personal lives. Their top advice? Don't bring the business home with you.
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