Women as a Business Imperative

Memo to: Peter Anderson, President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Topform Corporation From: Felice N. Schwartz, President, Catalyst Re: Women as a Business Imperative A year ago, you asked me to analyze how Topform deals with its women and to advise you about your policies. Since then I have studied your company and talked at […]

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Felice N. Schwartz

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Felice N. Schwartz

From the Magazine (March–April 1992)

Memo to: Peter Anderson, President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Topform Corporation

A version of this article appeared in the March–April 1992 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Felice N. Schwartz is president and founder of Catalyst, a national not-for-profit research and advisory organization that works with business to effect change for women. This memorandum is an adaptation of a portion of her new book, Breaking with Tradition—Women and Work, The New Facts of Life, which will be published by Warner Books in March. The names in the memorandum have been changed to the fictional “Peter Anderson” of “Topform Corporation.” However, Topform is typical of the companies Schwartz has visited in the past two years. Her last contribution to HBR, “Management Women and the New Facts of Life,” appeared in the January–February 1989 issue.

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