<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/47248865.cms" /> And here’s another reason for the Indians to rejoice. Among the top list of influential executives in the world, there’s an Indian. As per a news report by The Economic Times, <keyword id="6358361" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Biocon">Biocon</keyword> <keyword id="1535570" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="founder-and-managing-director">founder and managing director</keyword> <keyword id="6413985" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kiran-Mazumdar-Shaw">Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw</keyword> has been ranked one of the most influential executives in the world in the field of medicine by a top UK-based medical publication. 
 
Mazumdar-Shaw has been ranked number two on The Medicine Maker Power List of 2015, which is an index of the 100 most influential people across the globe in the field of medicine, an annual list which is compiled by UK-based The Medicine Maker. 
 She has appeared on the list along with of <keyword id="225564" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anthony-Fauci">Anthony Fauci</keyword>, who is the <keyword id="303" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Director">director</keyword> of the <keyword id="381130" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Institute-of-Allergy">National Institute of Allergy</keyword> and Infectious Diseases, <keyword id="6355055" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="USA">USA</keyword>, and was ranked number one on the list; <keyword id="78710" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="GlaxoSmithKline">GlaxoSmithKline</keyword> <keyword id="24211" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="chief-executive">chief executive</keyword> Sir Andrew Witty; <keyword id="1872477" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Calico">Calico</keyword> <keyword id="5645" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="CEO">CEO</keyword> <keyword id="835599" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arthur-D-Levinson">Arthur D Levinson</keyword> and <keyword id="6377429" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mylan">Mylan</keyword> CEO <keyword id="1114925" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Heather-Bresch">Heather Bresch</keyword>. 
 
The compilation has been done on the basis of nominations and recommendations from a panel of expert judges. 
 The financial daily further reported, Mazumdar-Shaw is the only India-based <keyword id="94268" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-leader">business leader</keyword> who was featured on the list. 
 
 
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Time has the full story up on <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword>'s new startup that will try to figure out how to combat aging.
Here's the key detail at the top:
At the moment Google is preparing an especially uncertain and distant shot. It is planning to launch Calico, a new company that will focus on health and aging in particular. The independent firm will be run by Arthur Levinson, former CEO of biotech pioneer Genentech, who will also be an investor. Levinson, who began his career as a scientist and has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, plans to remain in his current roles as the chairman of the board of directors for both Genentech and Apple, a position he took over after its co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011. In other words, the company behind YouTube and Google+ is gearing up to seriously attempt to extend human lifespan.

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<div class="image-container float_right"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/529f5a1e6bb3f71e6158f404-1064-798/women-laughing-work-businesswomen-1.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="women laughing work businesswomen" width="480" /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/10956635696/in/photostream/">Flickr/Dellinc</a></div></div><keyword id="624" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Women">Women</keyword> make up at least half of the workforce. Yet that 50/50 ratio doesn't hold true in corporate boardrooms.
This gender disparity is only hurting the companies themselves as <a href="http://catalyst.org/knowledge/bottom-line-corporate-performance-and-womens-representation-boards">studies</a> have shown that Fortune 500 companies with the highest percentage of women board directors financially outperform companies with the lowest percentage.
According to <a href="http://www.catalyst.org/media/companies-more-women-board-directors-experience-higher-financial-performance-according-latest">nonprofit organization Catalyst,</a> companies with the highest percentage of women board directors bring in 42% more in sales and 53% more in return on equity than companies that have the least representation of women on their boards.
Terry J. Lundgren, CEO of Macy's, Inc., said closing the gender gap must first start from <keyword id="34454" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="leadership">leadership</keyword> at the top.
"[CEOs] can do more to promote the females executives in [their] company as candidates," Lundgren said at a recent gathering of the Women's Forum of New York at the New York Stock Exchange. "[CEOs] have relationships where we connect and we have this opportunity to be the advocates." Macy's is one of the small handful of companies that have at least 40% of women represented on their board.
Deanna M. Mulligan, CEO of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, spoke on a panel at the Women's Forum and she discussed the graveness of not having enough women voices represented in the corporate world.
"We put a man on the moon," she said. "We should be able to put women on boards."
Below are seven Fortune 500 companies with at least 40% of women represented in their boardrooms.
<h3><a href="http://www.avoncompany.com/aboutavon/boardofdirectors/">Avon Products, Inc.</a></h3>
Six out of the 10 board members at Avon are women.
Sheri McÇoy, CEO of Avon Products, Inc. McCoy has been a director since 2012.
V. Ann Hailey, president and CEO of Famous Yard Sales, Inc. Hailey has been a director since 2008.
Nancy Killefer, former senior partner of McKinsey &amp; Company where she retired from in August 2013. Killefer has been a director since 2013.
Maria Elena Lagomasino, CEO of WE Family Services. Lagomasino has been a director since 2000.
Ann S. Moore, former CEO of Time Inc. Moore has been a director since 1993.
Paula Stern, Ph.D, chairwoman at The Stern Group, Inc. Stern has been a director since 1997.
<h3><a href="http://investors.elcompanies.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=109458&amp;p=irol-govboard">The Estee Lauder Companies</a></h3>
Seven out of the 15 board members at the Estee Lauder companies are women.
Charlene Barshefsky, senior international partner at WilmerHale. Barshefsky has been a director since 2001.
Rose Marie Bravo, CBE of retail and marketing consultant. Bravo has been a director since 2003.
Wei Sun Christianson, managing director of co-CEO of Asia Pacific and CEO of China at Morgan Stanley. Christianson has been a director since 2011.
Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, LLC. Hobson has been a director since 2005.
Aerin Lauder, creative director and chairman of Aerin LLC. Aerin has been a director since 2004.
Jane Lauder, global president and general manager of Origins, Ojon and Darphin brands. Jane has been a director since 2009.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO of E L Rothschild LLC. Rothschild has been a director since 2000.
<h3><a href="http://www.interpublic.com/about/corporate-governance?management_id=21&amp;management_type_id=3">The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.</a></h3>
Four out of the nine board members at the Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. are women.
Jocelyn Carter-Miller, president of TechEdVentures. Carter-Miller has been a director since 2007.
Jill M. Considine, chairman of Butterfield Fulcrum Group Limited. Considine has been a director since 1997.
Mary J. Steele Guilfoile, chairman of MG Advisors, Inc. Guilfoile has been a director since 2007.
Dawn Hudson, vice chairman of The Parthenon Group. Hudson has been a director since 2011.
<h3><a href="http://www.macysinc.com/about-us/board-corporate-management/board-of-directors/">Macy's, Inc.</a></h3>
Four out of the 10 board members at Macy's are women.
Marna C. Whittington, former CEO of Allianz Global Investors Capital. Whittington has been a director since 1993.
Deirdre P. Connelly, president of North American Pharmaceuticals of GlaxoSmithKline. Connelly has been a director since 2008.
Sara Levinson, former chairman and CEO of ClubMom, Inc. Levinson has been a director since 1997.
Joyce M. Roché, former president and CEO of Girls Incorporated. Roché has been a director since 2006.
<h3><a href="http://www.pg.com/en_US/company/global_structure_operations/governance/board_composition.shtml">The Proctor &amp; Gamble Company</a></h3>
Five out of the 10 board members at the Proctor &amp; Gamble Company are women.
Angela F. Braly, president and CEO of WellPoint, Inc. Braly has been a director since 2009.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor and Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Desmond-Hellmann has been a director since 2010.
Margaret C. Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard. Whitman has been a director since 2011.
Mary Agnes Wilderotter, CEO of Frontier Communications Corporation. Wilderotter has been a director since 2009.
Patricia A. Woertz, CEO and president of Archer Daniels Midland Company
Woertz has been a director since 2008.
<h3><a href="http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about-disney/leadership/board-of-directors">The Walt Disney Company</a></h3>
Four out of the 10 board members at The Walt Disney Company are women.
Susan Arnold is retired and was the former president of Global Business Units of Procter &amp; Gamble from 2007 to 2009.
Arnold has been a director since 2007.
Judith L. Estrin, CEO of JLABS, LLC (formerly Packet Design Management Company, LLC)
Estrin has been a director since 1998.
Monica C. Lozano, CEO of impreMedia, LLC
Lozano has been a director since 2000.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of of Facebook, Inc.
Sandberg has been a director since 2010.
<h3><a href="http://www.xerox.com/about-xerox/executive-leadership/board-of-directors/enus.html">Xerox Corporation</a></h3>
Four out of the 10 board members at Xerox Corporation are women.
Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox
Burns has been a director since 2007.
Ann N. Reese, executive director at the Center for Adoption Policy
Reese has been a director since 2003.
Sara Martinez Tucker, president and CEO of National Math and Science Initiative
Tucker has been a director since 2011.
Mary Agnes Wilderotter, CEO of Frontier Communications Corporation
Wilderotter has been a director since 2006.

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