IWEC Foundation Announces Three 2023 Awardees from Turkey
Congratulations to these successful women who have been nominated by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce. They will be receiving their awards at the 16th Annual IWEC Foundation Conference Nov. 5-7th in Turin, Italy. Vennas Akyol Haznedar, Founder, Akyol Gida Turizm Otel Insaat Petrol Ticaret Limited, www.vennbutikotel.com Vennas is a [...]
IWEC Foundation Announces Three 2023 Awardees from Bahrain
We are proud to announce and recognize these three successful women business owners from Bahrain. Nominated by UNIDO Nawal Yousuf Alsabbagh, Founder & CEO, Nawal Since 1989, www.nawalsince1989.com Nawal is the founder and CEO of Nawal Flowers which she started in 1989. She has won the prestigious Shaikh Mohammed [...]
Setting Risk Management Goals: Determining Risk Appetite and Target Risk Levels
By Moiz Mujtaba, Corpay Cross-Border Solutions https://payments.corpay.com/cross-border For Corpay Once foreign exchange exposure is assessed, the next step is to set risk management goals. This involves determining how much risk the company is willing to take on and what its target risk levels are. Achieving stakeholder agreement on risk appetite, [...]
IWEC Foundation Announces Dr. Karyn Koven, LanguageBird, as a 2023 IWEC Awardee
Dr. Koven, Founder & CEO, Language Bird, was nominated by the Women Presidents Organization, an IWEC Affiliate Partner. Dr. Koven is a life-long learner and career educator. She uses her passion and experience as a high school teacher, counselor, and administrator to create and lead innovative programs to change [...]
I Spent a Year Studying Hundreds of Global Teams. The Best Ones Do These 8 Things.
Great teams don't just happen; they're built, step-by-step. Here's how to work better, together. BY JUSTIN BARISO, AUTHOR, EQ APPLIED@JUSTINJBARISO For Inc. Photo: Getty Images What makes a great team? That's the question I and five fellow researchers have been trying to answer for the past year and a half. Tasked [...]
Is Clean Tech Waste Management the Road to a Sustainable Future?
By Kat de Naoum For Thomas Insights As a potential solution to the undeniable mass waste problem around the world, a few dedicated cleantech companies created innovative, trash-sorting robots. As great as this sounds, however, this fledgling tech solution is not likely to fully get off the ground without investment [...]
Visa Launches Digital Platform For Azerbaijani Businesswomen Jointly With Emerging Europe.
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 10. Visa launched the She's Next digital community platform for women entrepreneurs from Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, created in partnership with Emerging Europe, an authoritative business and community development platform focused on the region, the Baku office of Visa [...]
Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One
by Juliet Bourke and Andrea Titus For Harvard Business Review Photo: Richard Drury/Getty Images Summary. Companies increasingly rely on diverse, multidisciplinary teams that combine the collective capabilities of women and men, people of different cultural heritage, and younger and older workers. But simply throwing a mix of people together doesn’t guarantee [...]
From Tennis Pro to Chief Product Officer: Why Female Athletes Make Great Business Leaders
BY LOUISE K. ALLEN, CPO, PLANVIEW For Inc. Photo: Getty Images (Note-95% of IWEC's awardees played sports and still do! Playing ports helps you understand the workings of teams, risk taking and leadership among other skills.) It's no secret that women have historically faced an uphill battle to secure corporate leadership [...]
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT for Enterprises
Here's What It Could Do for Your Business. Small-business owners will soon be able to integrate the natural-language interface directly into their business operations BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER@BENLUCASSHERRY For Inc. https://tinyurl.com/bdf7mwkk Photo: Getty Images ChatGPT is going B2B. OpenAI has released ChatGPT Enterprise, the most powerful version of its chatbot [...]