I want you to engage in a little thought experiment with me. Think back to the time when you applied to college or graduate school. Now think about those essays you wrote, earnestly explaining to the admissions officers how you needed to obtain a degree from their university. If you were like me, chances are pretty […]
Archive for October 2007
filed under Next Level
Good news from the boardroom this week. A new study concluded that Fortune 500 companies with more women on their boards perform better financially than companies with fewer female directors. The study, The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards, was conducted by the non-profit organization Catalyst, which works to expand opportunities for […]
filed under News
Yes. There are endless free lunches, dinners and drinks if you do the conference circuit.
Are trade shows and conferences really worth going to? Every day there seems to an invitation in my inbox to be somewhere.
Last week the SIBOS show hit Boston. SIBOS is to men in financial technology what Christmas is to the rest […]
filed under What's On
The Intrepid Woman Explorer series is designed to bring our readers a close-up and personal view of some activities and elements of business culture that have been historically male-dominated.
So I thought, what better way to kick off the series than a review of my recent dining experience at Peter Luger’s, the legendary Brooklyn steakhouse that […]
filed under Intrepid Women Series, Reviews
October 4th, 2007, 8:25 am
Need a break? How about an Ayurvedic Retreat?
Last year around this time, I was in bad shape and desperately needed a nice long break from work. My feet were killing me from wearing heels for the past two years. Most nights, I was snoring in the my cubicle loud enough for my boss to tap me on the shoulder and […]
filed under Intrepid Women Series, Reviews
Getting a job at an investment bank or corporate law firm can be super competitive, even if you have all of the right credentials to get your foot in the door. So it’s important to have every possible advantage when you are going through the job search, application and interview process.
To that end, I […]
filed under Next Level
October 2nd, 2007, 7:11 am
Consumable communication
Three times in the last week, I have had the same déjà vu-inducing experience. First, when I was helping a client prepare a high-tech conference speech, second, when writing an article about dark pools of liquidity in the European equity trading landscape (welcome to my world), and finally, while listening to a friend bemoan her […]
filed under Voices of Experience
Just thinking back on my conversation with this guy makes me cringe. A couple of weeks ago, one of my co-workers gave me the contact name of a friend of hers, and suggested I interview him for an article I was writing. I called him up to let him know that I was going to […]
filed under Expert Answers
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