Gowan joins Indiana’s Kelly School dean Idalene Kesner, Sally Blunt at Northwestern’s Kellogg, Alison David Blake at Michigan’s Ross, Sri Zaheer at Minnesota’s Carlson as a female head of a business school, posts most often held by men until recently.  

In the US, big bank policies are not serving small businesses and the middle class.  This seems to be a trend around the world for both different and similar reasons.  Article 

Argentine government is claiming back taxes.  American company is trying to get money back on bonds the government defaulted on.  Conundrum discussed by Eliana Raszewski

The female chief executive officers were paid an average of $1.31 million in 2011, compared with $1.93 million paid to the 42 male CEOs. That means they made about 68 cents for every dollar paid to a man — a bigger salary divergence than the 72 cents women earned against every $1 paid to a man in the wider economy, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau.   Article

Founded by former Goldman Sachs’ financier Janet Hanson, this organization has 30,000 members throughout the world.  They join together, inspired, empowered and connected.  Website 

Amy Trask wanted to be a football player.  “Football was what I wanted to do,” she writes.  “Business is my way of making it happen.”  Article

In a new book, Pamela Ryckman discusses how business women bond. They are pictured swapping Manolos, sex-toy tips and tales of double dating with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  They wield serious clout, too, nominating one another for directorial boards, funding lucrative startups and launching billion-dollar charity campaigns.  Here’s the author discussing the new trend.

Mandy Weston had worked at board level for more than a decade and managed more than 250 staff. “I controlled PR, human resources and marketing departments, not to mention budgets worth in excess of £1m.

“You might assume choices made as a ‘lone ranger’ in business are somehow less significant than those reached at executive level, but I can assure you this is not true – in many ways they are much harder to make.”  Article

Colleges make a great deal of money on their sports programs.  The revenue has never been shared with athletes.  A new lawsuit may result in the otherthrow of the system as it has been.  Article