Nominations are now open for the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance’s Howard Hall Excellence in Business Award. Corridor Business Journal

Kim Willis and her husband, Rich, have received the 2019 Tocqueville Society Award. The award is United Way of Central Iowa’s highest honor, given annually to an individual or household that exemplifies inspirational and sustained leadership and service to the Central Iowa community through United Way. Des Moines Business Record

Moving from the fashion world to that of the area’s police and firefighters, nurses and surgeons, and carpenters and agricultural processors was a bit of an adjustment for Nina Brundell, owner of Kieck’s Career Apparel in Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids Gazette

NATION

According to a new study, corporate directors think diversity improves their boards — they just don’t want to be bothered about it anymore. Fortune

After NASA canceled the milestone because it didn’t have enough spacesuits in sizes that would fit the women, the all-female spacewalk is back on. CNN

Male CEOs in pharmaceutical, computer software and certain other industries were less likely to act with overconfidence when a woman was on the company’s board than when boards were male-only, a study at Harvard University found. Harvard Business Review