The Social Business Workplace: MillerCoors

In the summer of 2010, an executive at MillerCoors, one of the world's largest brewing companies with $7.5 billion in revenue and eighty-five hundred employees, noticed a disturbing trend: female sales executives were departing the company at a much higher rate than their male counterparts. The gender ratio of employees across the company was becoming a concern too, with about a quarter of workers being female compared to 48 percent for the Fortune 100 as a whole. The company wanted to be representative of the best talent and of the marketplace, but with such an imbalance, the challenge was a large one.

MillerCoors started by investigating the root causes of its growing gender imbalance. Focusing on ...

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