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Women entrepreneurs thrive managing talented teams and balancing many investors

  • Written by Richard A. Devine, American University
Women leaders tend to collaborate better than men.Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com

Only a handful of the top companies in the U.S. are led by a woman.

Efforts to change that and promote more women into positions of leadership have relied primarily on questions of equality. But is there also a business case for putting more women in charge?

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