women in business Archives | Blog | EU Business School EU Blog Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:39:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How Education Plays a Role in the Empowerment of Women https://www.euruni.edu/blog/how-education-plays-a-role-in-the-empowerment-of-women/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=32418 Although incredible progress has been made since the women’s rights movement of the 1960s, women still face significant barriers to equal participation in public life. UN Women recently reported, for example, that women currently serve as heads of state or government in 22 countries. This sounds like good news… until you realize that 119 countries have never had a woman leader, and only 25 percent of all national parliamentarians are women. Until women are represented at an equal level in the public and political sphere, we cannot consider our societies to be truly democratic. We should also bear in mind […]

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]]> Founding a Female-Run and Female-Targeted Business https://www.euruni.edu/blog/founding-a-female-run-and-female-targeted-business/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:30:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30777 EU Business School alumna Riya Kalra recently presented to students regarding the process of establishing and maintaining her business, Candyskin. Riya explained that she draws upon her experience working with her father’s manufacturing and industrial textiles company as well as her studies at EU Business School while running her business. Candyskin is a women-led and lingerie brand, launched in 2017. Candyskin’s Mission Riya started her company with a mission to provide comfortable intimate wear for women in India. She wanted the products to be of high quality using fabrics that provide functionalities like anti-bacterial and anti-microbial, taking into consideration the […]

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]]> Being a young female founder by Anastasia Barner https://www.euruni.edu/blog/being-a-young-female-founder/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:30:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30711 Anastasia Barner, who founded her first company at the tender age of 20, addressed EU Business School students and shared her experiences as a young female CEO. Her company, FeMentor, became the first online reverse mentoring platform in the German-speaking world. It has since expanded and made its way into other countries. Anastasia has founded another social app named Catch Me, and in addition to her two businesses, she is the international TikTok face of German media company Deutsche Welle. She also sits on several advisory boards. Anastasia certainly knows what it takes to be successful in the start-up game: […]

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]]> The Woman Trained Man – An Open Letter From EU’s Head of Academic Administration https://www.euruni.edu/blog/the-woman-trained-man/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:33:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30570 On this year’s International Women’s Day, I reflected upon the important women in my life and what I learned from them. I was fortunate to grow up in a household comprised of strong women – my grandmother, mother, and two sisters. Each of them had their individual strengths from cooking and knitting to architecture and mathematics. What they all had in common was a strong sense of their individual value and an unwavering belief that they could do and be whatever they wanted, regardless of their gender. Each of them entered fields predominantly run and controlled by men. My grandmother […]

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]]> Finding Confidence and Overcoming Fear https://www.euruni.edu/blog/finding-confidence-overcoming-fear/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30561 Pauliina Jamsa is the Global Senior Online Marketing Manager for Siemens. Although she addressed EU Business School students via livestream from London, she is originally from Finland. Pauliina is passionate about diversity and bringing out the best in people. She is a public speaker who has presented in 16 countries, and she is the author of an e-book called “From Anxious to Unstoppable”.  Pauliina began by sharing that she was so badly bullied as a child that she couldn’t even order in a restaurant without worrying people would laugh at her. Although she had the highest grades in school, people believed she was stupid because she didn’t have the confidence to convey her […]

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]]> Mindfulness, Leadership and Strategic Thinking With Rosa Navarro https://www.euruni.edu/blog/mindfulness-leadership-strategic-thinking/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:36:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30551 Mindfulness is a hot topic and it’s showing no signs of declining in popularity. Businesses worldwide are seeing the benefits that simple, mindfulness-based practices can have on their employees’ wellbeing, and the ways it can improve workplace culture. To discuss how business and individuals can benefit from mindfulness, we invited EU alumna Rosa Navarro to talk to students. Rosa graduated from EU Business School with a BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) in 1993. She is the founder of Mindfulness Barcelona, a company that offers tailored mindfulness training to corporate clients. She is also a partner of “BforB Spain”, an international […]

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]]> 7 Women Who Turned Their Hobbies Into Businesses https://www.euruni.edu/blog/women-hobbies-into-businesses/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30532 Amid the constant bombardment of success stories and headlines proclaiming billion-dollar evaluations, it’s easy to forget that many of the world’s most successful businesses began life as little more than a passion for a particular hobby. Budding female entrepreneurs are often unsure whether they have what it takes to turn their hobbies into businesses. But they should draw inspiration from the thousands of successful women that have gone before them. Women’s History Month, a thirty-one-day period dedicated to commemorating women’s contributions to society, begins on the first of March. In this post, we’re going to tell the stories of seven women […]

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]]> Meet the Women of EU Business School (III) https://www.euruni.edu/blog/women-of-eu-business-school-3/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:01:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30441 Women in Business month has provided a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our fellow female staff members at EU. We are proud to work with such an international and diverse team of women, who specialize in everything from finance and management to communication and design. We would like to celebrate their careers and share their valuable tips on life, business and being a woman! The following EU staff are part of our extensive expat community. They share what they have learned from their experiences of living abroad and reflect on the proudest moments of their international careers. Rebecca Tollefson […]

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]]> EU Alumna Riya Kalra, Co-Founder of Candyskin https://www.euruni.edu/blog/eu-alumna-riya-kalra-candyskin/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 06:15:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30519 Riya Kalra is from Mumbai, India. She lived in the U.K. and Spain for seven years while studying and speaks English, Hindi, some Spanish and Marathi, one of India’s local languages. Having completed her Bachelor of Business Administration at EU Business School in 2013, she returned to Mumbai to live and work. As an entrepreneur, she has very little time for hobbies, but loves to swim when she can. We spoke to Riya about her entrepreneurial journey and how her BBA has impacted her career. How did you come to found Candyskin? I’ve been working with my dad since I […]

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]]> Is Agile the Future of HR? – Fabiola Eyholzer https://www.euruni.edu/blog/agile-future-of-hr/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:08:00 +0000 https://www.euruni.edu/blog/?p=30463 Despite what many people think, the COVID-19 pandemic has not been responsible for the radical transformation of work that has occurred over the past several months.   Human resources (HR) departments were under significant strain well before the outbreak. COVID-19 has merely accelerated trends that were gaining pace and already disrupting the corporate space.   The future success of economies right across the globe depends on the ability of HR departments, which are responsible for finding, hiring, onboarding and training employees, to adapt to the unprecedented situation in which they find themselves. And Agile, an approach that leverages collaboration and responsiveness to […]

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