Women Leaders Programme Partners

 
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Ernst & Young is committed to achieving potential. It's how it makes a difference - for its people, clients and the wider communities.
Ernst & Young is about 130,000 people, united by shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality, working together to help each other develop and succeed personally and professionally. It's about helping clients deliver on their promises to their markets and stakeholders. And it's about making a difference in the communities in which we live and work.
 
 
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Goldman Sachs is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. It provides a wide range of services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments, non-profit organizations and individuals. Its headquarters are in New York and it maintains significant offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other financial centres around the world.

Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has long sustained a commitment to hiring and training outstanding leaders. Its business principles are rooted in integrity, a commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork. These values enable Goldman Sachs to successfully execute a business strategy that is focused on extraordinary client service and superior long-term financial performance for its shareholders.

Goldman Sachs conducts its business in increasingly complex markets. The firm judges itself on its ability to help clients anticipate and respond to changing market conditions and to create opportunities.
 
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Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN) is a world leader in the employment services industry, creating and delivering services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work. The US$ 18 billion company offers employers a range of services for the entire employment and business cycle including permanent, temporary and contract recruitment; employee assessment and selection; training; outplacement; outsourcing and consulting. Manpower's worldwide network of 4,400 offices in 73 countries and territories enables the company to meet the needs of its 400,000 clients per year, including small and medium-size enterprises in all industry sectors, as well as the world's largest multinational corporations. The focus of Manpower's work is on raising productivity through improved quality, efficiency and cost reduction across their total workforce, enabling clients to concentrate on their core business activities. Manpower Inc. operates under five brands: Manpower, Manpower Professional, Elan, Jefferson Wells and Right Management. 
 
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McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organizations make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past eight decades, the firm's primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organization's most trusted external adviser on critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from over 80 offices in more than 40 countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic, operational, organizational and technological issues. The firm has extensive experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas as well as in-depth expertise in high-priority areas for today's business.
 
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NYSE Euronext is a holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group and Euronext, which commenced trading on 4 April 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX) operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges in six countries, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data. Representing a combined US$ 30.3 trillion/21.3 trillion euros total market capitalization of listed companies and average daily trading value of approximately US$139 billion/103 billion euros (as of 30 September 2007), NYSE Euronext seeks to provide the highest standards of market quality and integrity, innovative products and services to investors, issuers, and all users of its markets.
 
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance is a unique group of two global companies linked by cross-shareholding. The Alliance develops and implements a strategy of profitable growth and pursues three primary objectives:
· To be recognized by customers as one of the best three automotive groups in the quality and value of its products and services in each region and market segment;
· To rank among the best three automotive groups in key technologies, each partner being a leader in specific domains of excellence; and
· To consistently generate a total operating profit among the top automotive groups in the world by maintaining a high operating profit margin and pursuing growth.

Benchmarking and transparency lead to substantial savings and new opportunities for both Alliance partners in all areas. Renault and Nissan, which recognizes its 10th anniversary in 2009, utilize their strengths to place the Alliance among the world's most successful automotive groups, with record sales of more than 6 million units in 2008.
 
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