Andrea Jung

It's good to be chief

The pay of America's top corporate chief executives has increased nearly five times as fast as the wages of rank-and-file workers over the last 20 years -- this despite the average CEO compensation package slipping slightly in...

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Suze Orman Champions Women's Causes

NOVEMBER 19, 2009 Giacinta Pace, MSNBC Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, we speak with personal finance guru and TV personality Suze Orman about her work on behalf of the Avon...

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The cult of the faceless boss

The Economist Posted: Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 at 1950 hrs IST Updated: Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 at 1950 hrs IST : The European Union is not the only institution that prefers faceless technocrats to people with star power. The...

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Schumpeter: The cult of the faceless boss

Too many chief executives are instantly forgettable. It’s the flamboyant, visionary bosses who change the world THE European Union is not the only institution that prefers faceless technocrats to people with star power. The...

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Jung on Jobs: Avon CEOs take on Steve (at Fortune)

Steve Jobs is Fortune’s “CEO of the Decade.” As my colleague Adam Lashinsky says in the current issue’s cover story, Jobs has created more than $150 billion in shareholder wealth–meanwhile, “transforming movies, telecom, music,...

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Business English: How to be a top female boss

Of the 50 top female cheif executives in the world, who has the secret to how one stays there? von Lucy Kellaway Recently, the FT published a list of the top 50 women chief executives in the world and, loving such lists, I...

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Elizabeth Smith Leaves Avon

The challenge of a CEO job is a key issue in Smith's jump to OSI Restaurant Partners. Elizabeth Smith, the former president of Avon Products who has spent her career zigzagging across industries, is the newly named CEO of OSI...

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Asian Pacific Americans Remain Absent from Corporate Boardrooms, Says LEAP's Report (Business Wire)

WASHINGTON----Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. unveils the findings of its 2009 Corporate Governance Report measuring Asian Pacific American inclusion on the boards of Fortune 100 companies.

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Avon ex-president's odd leap to CEO

Liz Smith, who was on track to succeed Andrea Jung as CEO of Avon Products , is moving to a new company and a new industry. Again. The onetime star exec at Kraft , who made an unlikely leap from food to cosmetics in 2004, is...

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UPDATE: Avon To Continue Building Brand, Sales Rep Levels

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Avon Products Inc.'s (AVP) work to build its brand, innovations and number of active sales representatives in recent years has worked, Chief Executive Andrea Jung said Thursday, and it's a strategy the...

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