Female executives

ProHub Comment

This is a classic 'wild card' case structure that requires candidates to develop their own framework for analyzing diversity initiatives. The case progresses from qualitative evaluation criteria through quantitative analysis of career progression funnels, revealing that achieving the diversity goal through entry-level hiring alone (5,000 women) is impractical, thus forcing candidates to think about alternative solutions including retention, promotion, and external executive recruitment.

Estimated Time 15 minutes
Difficulty Medium
Source PeterK
50 / 100
You have a U.S.-based retail client that would like to more closely mirror its clientele and its workforce. Currently 25% of their executive team are women, and the client would like to increase this share. What would you like to evaluate to have more women in executive suite?

Clarifying Information

  1. We don’t have any information about the client’s b-model
  2. The client has a national geographical footprint
  3. Executive level is VP and above (currently 2% of all employees)
  4. There are 1k employees in the company
  5. The client would like to have four more female execs