In order to understand the Latin American and business context, our team of experts in social sciences, politics, economics and business is dedicated to conducting and disseminating research relevant to our center's mission. This work allows us to design programs tailored to the specific needs of organizations and governments in the region.
INCAE was invited to participate in the Global Modern Leadership Report led by Diligent in collaboration with 22 partner organizations around the world. The research represents the first global analysis of boardroom diversity and provides a unique holistic view of the progression of inclusion on public and private boards around the world.
The purpose of this study is to understand the personal and professional experiences and perspectives of women born between 1981 and 1996 in the urban areas of: Bogota, Lima, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Through qualitative and quantitative research, the study revealed valuable insights into how these women perceive various areas of their lives: career, entrepreneurship, motherhood, home and partner, social mobility, financial well-being, among others.
Academic Director: Margaret Grigsby | 2020
Ilie, C, Stamatiou, S., Fernández, A., & Valle, R. (2020). Accelerators as Drivers of Gender Equality. Incae Business School.
Prof. Susan Clancy, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | 2019
Economic and Social Analysis of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Panama | Jaime García, M.Sc., Senior Methodological Associate, Social Progress Imperative INCAE Business School | 2019
Cardoza, Ilie, Casó, Fernández. Happiness and Management in Latin America | 2018
Prof. Camelia Ilie, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | Harvard Deusto Business Review | 2018
Prof. Camelia Ilie, Ph.D, Prof. Guillermo Cardoza, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración | 2018
Prof. Camelia Ilie, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | Jaime García, M.Sc., Senior Methodological Associate, Social Progress Imperative | Prof. Guillermo Cardoza, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | 2017
Prof. Camelia Ilie, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | Prof. Guillermo Cardoza, Ph.D., INCAE Business School | Andrés Fernández, INCAE Business School | Haydee Tejada, INCAE Business School | 2017
As part of Forbes Central America's "100 Powerful Women" issue, Camelia Ilie Cardoza, our Dean of Strategy and Institutional Affairs and Chair of CELIS, offered valuable advice for young women aspiring to succeed in the business world or in leadership positions: continuous learning, self-awareness, relational skills and more were part of it. Read the full article on page 39, under the title "Education for Empowerment: Boosting Women's Potential in Central America".
Education can make a big difference as a strategy to stop the reproduction of poverty cycles or the elimination of the transmission of poverty within a family group. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has brought us another important lesson: countries with better education systems have managed both economic and social problems better.
In the last two years of the pandemic, I have lived, on a personal and professional level-like many people-a tsunami of experiences that have marked a profound change in the way I look at what is a priority in my life, now and in the future. We are no longer the same, but we still don't know who we are or who we want to be. We are afraid to completely let go of the past, but we were able to glimpse that there is "something more" and, timidly, that we can expect "something better" in our life experience.
Women are tired. Physically and psychologically. It is not only the fatigue caused by the pandemic, or that of a particular context, it is a historical fatigue, transmitted and accumulated, from generation to generation. "The mother has been able to transmit to her daughter nothing but capitulation, the idea of the limit that must not be crossed, threatened with exclusion and with the risk of not being considered a woman or feminine," wrote the Mexican writer Silvia Marcos - quoting the Italian psychologist Franca Ongaro - in 1978 at a congress on alternative psychiatry. How could we women not be tired?
Over the past year, we have witnessed an abrupt, traumatic change in our lives. We saw how the pandemic accelerated inequality in the world, jeopardizing decades of social progress. Women have been especially hard hit by this crisis, economically and socially, but above all on a personal level. Talking to hundreds of female colleagues, students, friends over the last year, I have been struck by a shared feeling: the sense of robotization of our lives where we transform ourselves into efficiency machines, juggling all facets of our lives, surpassing our own physical and emotional limits.
...women in agriculture are far from the end of poverty, zero hunger, quality education and gender equality-some of the sustainable development goals that can be significantly improved if we achieve greater participation and better working conditions for women in agriculture.
Forbes Central America | August 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a region where not only social inequalities abound, but also gender inequalities in terms of access to technological and labor opportunities. Women's entrepreneurial participation is 10.2%; barely three quarters of men's participation.
Forbes Central America | August 2020
Every day, in recent months, has been written about the new SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this article, we are going to summarize, on the one hand, the options that exist to control the virus, and, on the other hand, what are the chances that one of these options will reach the largest number of people in the world, how and when this might happen.
Forbes Central America | August 2020
Change in the environment produces natural changes in the behaviors of the people who inhabit it. This sums up in part the Broken Windows Theory successfully applied in the 1980s in certain depressed urban environments.
Forbes Central America | July 2020
We are rapidly experiencing the disappearance of our habits and the sudden, abrupt, even traumatic incursion into a world governed by new codes of conduct.
Forbes Central America | June 2020
Making decisions is what we do every day at work or in our personal lives. We decide on aspects that affect ourselves, our children, collaborators, clients, students, and even strangers. The responsibility and impact of a decision can be great and have unthinkable effects.
Forbes Central America | May 2020
Economies, like people, follow routines and trajectories with gradual changes. But in times of deep crisis or traumatic events, the panorama changes abruptly as windows of opportunity open up for significant changes that we would not normally be willing to make in periods of stability.
THE PRESS | April 2020
Part of being human is having a body that reacts to stress with hormones such as adrenaline and noradrenaline.
Although most of us to date have not been affected in our physical health directly by the COVID-19 virus, we are certainly suffering its psychological consequences: stress. these past few weeks have had a psychological impact on most of us.
The Republic | March 2020
We have been talking for many years about the importance of reducing the education gap between women and men, incorporating more women into the workforce, reducing the wage gap, enhancing our entrepreneurial capacity, arguing about the benefits of collective intelligence and collaborative leadership, as well as the positive effects that all these strategies have on the sustainability of families, organizations and society.
E&N | September 2019
Gender discrimination in Latin American societies considerably reduces the effective participation of women in the development of new businesses and, therefore, conditions the possibilities of professional advancement and limits development opportunities for their families. "Even more seriously, inequity prevents women from contributing efficiently to the entrepreneurial development of the countries in the region," says Dr. Camelia Ilie Cardoza, Dean and Chair of the Center for Collaborative Leadership and Women.
THE PRESS | September 2019
The world has changed a lot in the last 20 years, says Susan Clancy, professor at Incae Business School, in an interview for LA PRENSA. The specialist in gender diversity and women's leadership says that today women generate a third of the gross domestic product (GDP), when before it was 10%, and now they control the spending of domestic consumers.
CNN | August 2019
What needs to be done to get more women into leadership positions? Professor Susan Clancy of INCAE Business School talks to Gabriela Frias to offer her ideas.
America Economía | June 2019
Gender discrimination in Latin American societies considerably reduces the effective participation of women in the development of new businesses and, therefore, conditions the possibilities of professional advancement and limits development opportunities for their families. Even more seriously, inequality prevents women from contributing efficiently to business development in the countries of the region.
The Republic | March 2019
Our Dean of INCAE Executive Education and Chair of the Center for Collaborative and Women's Leadership #CLCM wrote an article titled: "Self-confidence, mindset and roadmap", published in La República.
CNN | November 2017
Thirty-two years ago, Noelia de León asked for a loan and was met with a "no" that almost killed her desire to become a businesswoman to support her four children.
According to a study on the social progress of women by the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), despite the efforts of governments and multilateral organizations, the results to improve the productive incorporation of women are still precarious.
