How they do it at Compaq

Alice McGuire's four-woman IR team is far more interested in getting Compaq into portfolios than debating the battle of the sexes. Although both technology and finance are often heavily male-dominated, she reports that 'CFO Earl Mason has recently appointed three new women vice presidents to Compaq's finance team. There's no sense of a glass ceiling at all.' And for the last five years, there has been little hint of a ceiling for Compaq's soaring stock either. At the time of writing it was