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Sylvia Hewlett
Founding President, Center for Work-Life Policy
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What Your HR Department Can Learn From Jazz
The new generation of workers wants work to be an odyssey. And that, says Founder and President of the Center for Work-Life Policy Sylvia Ann Hewlett, is why smart companies learn to create work environments that promotes freedom within form. Read More
June 1, 2009 | In Business & Economics
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Pumping Morale in an Economic Crisis
Founder and President of the Center for Work-Life Policy Sylvia Ann Hewlett says workers today want careers with pride and purpose. Here is a blueprint for the office of the future. Read More
June 1, 2009 | In Business & Economics
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Keeping Performance Up When Business is Down
Founder and President of the Center for Work-Life Policy Sylvia Ann Hewlett says companies must protect and nurture their top performers by taking a thoughtful approach to career trajectory. Read More
June 1, 2009 | In Business & Economics
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Women now enter the workforce at the same rates as men, but career pause dooms their ascendency. Watch the Founder and President of the Center for Work-Life Policy Sylvia Ann Hewlett discuss creative solutions for corporate re-entry. Read More
June 1, 2009 | In Business & Economics
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How to Recruit the Best and Brightest
Diversity is no longer an adornment, says the Founder and President of the Center for Work-Life Policy Sylvia Ann Hewlett, it's a must-have. Watch Hewlett explain how diversity can make companies more efficient, more forward thinking, and more successful. Read More
June 1, 2009 | In Business & Economics
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy where she directs the “Hidden Brain Drain”—a task force of 35 global companies committed to fully realize female and minority talent over the lifespan. She also heads up the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is the author of six critically acclaimed nonfiction books and her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Hewlett has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton Universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her Ph.D. degree in economics at London University.
