Managing a Global Enterprise: Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon

As part of the View From The Top series, Avon Chair and CEO Andrea Jung discusses the challenges of managing a global enterprise with six million independent sales representatives, her own career choices, and what she has learned from serving on the boards of two very successful but different companies, Apple and GE. She is asked about her own cultural history, and how it shaped her leadership of Avon during its rapid global expansion. One of only 15 female CEOs of a Fortune 500 company, she also talks about what she thinks are promising trends for women in senior leadership roles.

Related News Article: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/jung_09.html?cmpid=yt

Center for Leadership Development and Research: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cldr

Transcript: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/packages/2009/transcripts/091109AndreaJung.txt

Record: Nov. 9, 2009

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Entrepreneurship
• Global Business
• Leadership & Management
• Marketing
• consumer
• developing nations
• gender & diversity
• organizational behavior
• small business

[ploodytang]

“The kind of compromise directors reached to keep Jung on as chairman while also recruiting a new CEO serves no good purpose for investors,” Charles Elson, head of the University of Delaware’s Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance in Newark, Delaware, said in a telephone interview. “But at least the board limited Jung to a two-year contract. It’s a lot harder to terminate an executive with an open-ended contract that automatically gets renewed over and over.”

[vintageb8]

Dec 13th 2011 update: She is being replaced as CEO

[111badshah]

@sanga997 you can translate captions by clicking on cc it will translate audio in to written engliah

[sanga997]

How can I get her speech in a printable format

[tgude23]

I think Andrea Jung is the epitome of a great leader. 

[sambking]

I am not sure about her hairdo. Being in charge of Avon you would think that she would have better advisers concerning her appearance.

[amtb66]

@Annalea10 You can use Real Download, and then use quick time to convert to mov.

[Annalea10]

I work for Avon and we would like to show this video at our next meeting. Is there any way that you can send to me this file via email? We want to make some edits and I can't do that via this Youtube upload. Please contact me here for the email

[misshallsschool]

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[1888junkteam]

excellent work!