During the summer of 2005, I traveled around Vietnam with my friend Mary. We started off in Old Saigon and worked our way along the coast, via beach resorts, to the northern city of Hanoi. We had plans to travel from Hanoi to Sapa, a small village on the border between Vietnam and [...]
‘Analysts and Associates’ Category
January 8th, 2008, 7:29 am
Harvard Business School Profiles: Lina’s Private to Public Transition
Contributed by Lauren Davis
Lina is a bit of an anomaly among first year MBA students at Harvard Business School (HBS).
Attending Harvard on an academic fellowship, Lina already has a summer position lined up with a prestigious investment bank. So, while her classmates are scurrying to presentations and networking events for summer employment, she is [...]
December 17th, 2007, 7:17 am
Harvard Business School Profiles: Hannah and the Importance of Mentors
Contributed by Lauren Davis
Last summer, at one New York investment bank, a male executive dropped into a luncheon for women employees and asked their advice about a problem. He explained that didn’t really understand what motivated female investment bankers, because they “seemed to want different things” than their male counterparts.
While this comment was met with [...]
With the Women on Wall Street (WOWS) conference still fresh in my head, I started thinking about the professional metamorphosis I have made in the past year. One marker of this change is a Meet the Press event that a respectable Chicago newspaper coordinates annually. Last year I walked in wearing a suit [...]
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