Europe's officials could scarcely believe their good fortune today.
In fact just 14.4% of executive officer positions in Fortune 500 companies are occupied by women today.
Research by the Great Place to Work Institute, co-publisher of the Fortune annual list, shows us that today's employees really do want different things - and it is not in their paychecks.
Each of those activities is an important step along the way to fame and fortune for an author, and the bad news today is that traditional publishers now only consistently do one of those five activities: acquire books.
He is regularly quoted and his cases have been chronicled in major financial and news publications including The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Fortune and Forbes.
Today, women hold roughly 16 percent of the Fortune 500 board seats, an increase of just 3 percent over the last decade.
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Today, Halpern says, it is fame rather than fortune that offers the most dramatic and resounding form of redemption.
Today, a much higher percentage of list members obtain their fortune from listed stocks.
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Roth, formerly of Fortune (and a former colleague of mine) is in charge of LinkedIn Today, a personalized news aggregation product.
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Athletes are a superstitious bunch, but consulting a fortune teller might seem a little bit too "ancient Olympics" for many of today's athletes, who put more faith in hi-tech equipment and specialized training regimes.
"Downton Abbey" portrays a fairy-tale way of life in which butlers and footmen appear far better dressed than today's billionaires many of whom, after making their fortune, seem to want to be sartorially indistinguishable from the most sloppily dressed adolescent rebel.
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
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The life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune 500 is down from around 60 years half a century ago to less than 15 years today.
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About Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
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For a more recent, if similarly calamitous, manifestation of the power of chaos theory, consider how different the world would be today had not a devout, soft-spoken Saudi Arabian engineer inherited a significant fortune from his estranged father.
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Today, the Alliance for Board Diversity released a report, Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census, that confirmed what many of us have known for some time.
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Today it is a growing suburb of sprawling Kolkata, with apartment buildings and gated communities with names like Fortune Township.
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