By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Last week The Glass Hammer hosted its 6th annual Top Women on the Buy-Side Breakfast. The lively discussion gave way to even livelier networking, as senior women across the investment management industry mulled over the question, “Where do we go from here?” Our panel included Jane Buchan, PhD, [...]
‘Industry Leaders’ Category
May 22nd, 2013, 1:00 pm
Women Leaders Discuss Investment Management in Uncertain Times
May 16th, 2013, 6:00 am
Making Diversity Personal – Storytelling and Leadership
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) A new McKinsey report suggests that while tracking and analyzing diversity metrics is important for success in gender parity, we should not downplay the importance of personal experience. Leaders should be encouraged to engage in storytelling, McKinsey suggests, making their connection to diversity personal. Lareina Yee, a Principal [...]
May 9th, 2013, 6:00 am
Leadership: Gender Champions and Straight Allies Set Out to Change Wall Street
By Nicki Gilmour, CEO of The Glass Hammer and Evolved Employer Last week, I was lucky to attend the 3rd Annual Out on the Street conference, where 300 LGBT executives, along with some leaders who are straight allies, convened at Goldman Sachs. It was an excellent event that gave a platform to some amazing leaders [...]
March 26th, 2013, 6:00 am
Ursula Burns Discusses Impatience and Leadership at Catalyst Awards Luncheon
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) At last week’s Catalyst Awards Conference, lunch keynote Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, shared her experience and advice on leadership and more. “I lucked out,” she began. “Xerox is a company that fit me well. It allowed to relax into my own self.” Having begun her career as [...]
February 14th, 2013, 6:00 am
Enabling Women to Be Authentic Fuels the Desire to Lead
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) New research [PDF] out of INSEAD, the world’s largest graduate business school, shows that women leaders experience less stress at work when they feel good about… being women. This finding may seem simple and obvious, but the rigorous study delves deep into identity theory around leadership and gender, [...]
February 12th, 2013, 6:00 am
How Do You Define a Good Company for Executive Women?
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Last week the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) released its 2013 Top 50 Companies for Executive Women list. The annual list has served to continuously raise the bar on what it means to be a “top company.” For example, Carol Evans, CEO of NAFE and President of [...]
February 7th, 2013, 1:00 pm
Davos: Women and the Leadership Gap
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Two years ago, the World Economic Forum introduced a gender quota of sorts – to raise the percentage of women at its annual event in Davos, which I called “embarrassingly low.” In 2010, only 17 percent of attendees were women, so the WEF decided that moving forward, for [...]
February 5th, 2013, 6:00 am
Is Executive Presence Sexist?
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) When we think of leaders, we usually have a few ideas in mind about what they look like and how they act. If you asked a random person on the street to imagine a CEO, they would probably think of a person who is male, white, tall, straight, [...]
January 24th, 2013, 6:00 am
Women Continue Outperforming in Alternative Investments
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) What’s one way to beat the market when it comes to alternative investments? According to new research by accounting firm Rothstein Kass, invest in women. The new study, “Women in Alternative Investments: Building Momentum in 2013 and Beyond,” reports that hedge funds run by women outperformed the HFRX [...]
January 23rd, 2013, 6:00 am
Women in the Boardroom: Focus on Solutions
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) In December, ION (the InterOrganization Network) released its 9th report on women on boards in the United States. ION is made up of 16 regional women’s networks, and this report used numbers from 15 of them. According to the research, the numbers haven’t moved much since the last [...]
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