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The barrier’s existence can be deduced from the fact that there is a stark difference between the
proportion of women (and of minority groups) who graduate from the leading universities and business schools, and the proportion who reach the higher echelons of corporate management. A secondary issue is that of women’s pay. There is evidence that
even when women do reach the highest levels of corporate management, they do not receive the same pay as men for the same job; a figure
of 75% is often quoted...

So the number of female corporate executives can be expected to rise, as it has been doing for some years...

One theory is that the cohorts of first-class female graduates have not yet had time to work through the pipeline and reach the top of the corporate hierarchy...


We have found a large number of companies within the
United States that are excellent at all seven of the Ss, the elements that together make for corporate success...

Indeed, almost from the moment that the book was published, corporate America began to rise to new heights of productivity and growth that no other country was to match in the 20th century...

Although the family firm itself cannot fairly be described as a management idea, it does embody a number of distinctive features around which has been spun a specific theory about corporate behaviour...

It is no coincidence that the massive shift that has taken place during the 20th century, from the predominance of the family firm to the predominance of the public corporation, has been paralleled by a shift from a corporate culture in which growth was one of a number of longterm goals to a culture in which it was the predominant goal by far...

The idea of business as a game is borrowed from a branch of economics (game theory) in which no economic agent (individual or corporate) is an island, living and acting independently of others...

There has, however, been no comparable progress
at the top of the corporate ladder....