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Great Women of Business

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  • Estée Lauder - “Dedication”

    August 14, 2018 · 1 hr 2 min

    As a teenager, Estée Lauder gained valuable business experience working in her father's hardware store and learned important business principles of dedication, determination, and discipline. Inspired by her uncle, a chemist who created…

  • Indra Nooyi - “Taking Risks”

    August 7, 2018 · 1 hr 4 min

    She’s one of the most powerful women in modern business. Current Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi’s design thinking, calculated risks, and clever strategy brought PepsiCo into the 21st century. We examine how…

  • Lydia Pinkham - “Networking”

    July 31, 2018 · 1 hr 3 min

    In a time when women were desperate for safe and effective treatments for women’s health issues, Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compounds became one of the best-known medicines of the 19th century. She began by giving away the compound for free…

  • Lillian Vernon - “Bootstrapping”

    July 24, 2018 · 1 hr 0 min

    Lillian Vernon had no formal business training but that didn’t stop her from starting her own business selling mail-order handbags out of her kitchen. An ad placed in Seventeen magazine for personalized purses and belts would lead to a…

  • Debbi Fields - “Customer Experience”

    July 17, 2018 · 1 hr 9 min

    Debbi Fields showed that anyone can make a dream business reality. As a young mother with no business experience, she was able to open her first cookie store in Palo Alto, CA in the late 1970s. She often gave cookies away, telling…

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  • Brownie Wise - “The Art Of Selling”

    July 9, 2018 · 1 hr 6 min

    Brownie Wise didn't just sell Tupperware, she revolutionized sales strategies and created lasting opportunities for working mothers. However, her volatile relationship with Earl Tupper cost her job, her contacts, and for years, her credit…

  • Susan Wojcicki - “Unlocking Value”

    July 3, 2018 · 1 hr 8 min

    Susan Wojcicki discovered that great opportunities aren't always easy to recognize. But Wojcicki had a knack for not only recognizing great opportunities but seizing them and executing upon them with immediacy. Her first big opportunity…

  • Madam C. J. Walker - “Necessity”

    June 26, 2018 · 1 hr 2 min

    After developing a scalp disorder that caused her to lose much of her hair, CJ Walker identified a market opportunity. So she developed her own homemade hair care products and marketed them to the black community. This would become an…

  • Ruth Handler - “Disruption”

    June 19, 2018 · 1 hr 10 min

    Originally a plastics company, Mattel changed their focus to toys when co-founder Ruth Handler sensed a growing need for toys after the post-war baby-boom. Years later, she would disrupt the toy market by launching a doll for kids in the…

  • Martha Stewart - “Commitment to Quality”

    June 12, 2018 · 1 hr 2 min

    Martha Stewart started with a modest catering company and parlayed it into a branded empire that focused on quality. This simple business principle set Stewart on her way to becoming the first self-made female billionaire. However, her…

  • Julia Child - “Investing in Oneself”

    June 5, 2018 · 1 hr 19 min

    Julia Child was a world famous chef, culinary educator, and entrepreneur. After meeting her husband Paul in the Office of Strategic Services, she followed him to France in 1948 where he was stationed. Little did she know this move would be…

  • Coco Chanel - "The Art of Branding"

    June 4, 2018 · 59 min

    Coco Chanel understood women’s fashion, perfume, and jewelry. But what she understood the most was that consumers don’t just buy fashion, they buy brands. And Coco Chanel was one of the first to understand branding as we know it…

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About the show

The wage gap. The motherhood penalty. The glass ceiling. The stories of business savvy women who battled sexism all the way to the executive suite are both thought provoking and inspiring. From Coco Chanel to Mrs. Fields, Julia Child to Martha Stewart, in this special 12 episode series we present the triumphs of individuals ahead of their time. Through their stories, we examine their most innovative business principles and how those shaped their work and lives. Great Women of Business is part of the Parcast Network.