In Italy’s ‘male gerontocracy’, gender quotas induced the restructuring of company boards – USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)

In Italys male gerontocracy, gender quotas induced the restructuring of company boards Fontana di Trevi, Rome, by Giorgio Galeotti, under a CC-BY-2.o licence Women are underrepresented among top leadership positions everywhere. Gender quotas have been proposed to accelerate the process towards economic gender equality and to promote womens empowerment. Norway pioneered the introduction of gender quotas…

Metabolix Names Yield10 Bioscience Management Team; Provides Update on Strategic Restructuring and Cash Position – GlobeNewswire (press release)

WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLX) today announced the management team that will lead Yield10 Bioscience. The company also provided an update on its strategic restructuring and cash position. Yield10 Bioscience is focused on the unmet need for enhanced global food security and is developing proprietary technologies to enable step-change…

B2B hiring grows 32%; B2C faces restructuring woes – Hindu Business Line

B2C has witnessed a steady decline in hiring due to internal restructuring and consolidation the companies are going through. Mumbai, Oct 16:   With adoption of newer technologies, hiring in business-to-business (B2B) segment has picked up, but it has fallen considerably in business-to-consumer (B2C) space, including e-commerce, experts say. For the last six months, there has…