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The key to work-life balance for female professionals is a holistic, comprehensive, trustworthy, and reliable support system.
As a woman in a key leadership role you must remain alert and sober minded, capable of making good decisions for your organization and clients. People are depending on you. Maybe you [...]
Archive for September 2008
September 23rd, 2008, 1:00 pm
Building a Support Network to Create Work-Life Balance
September 23rd, 2008, 6:00 am
Work/life Balance Around the World
by Elizabeth Harrin (London)
Think you work a long week? Spare a thought for the Koreans, who work the longest hours, around 2357 a year: that’s over 45 hours a week, every week. The UK and Ireland have the longest working week of the EU states and the Japanese only take an average of [...]
September 22nd, 2008, 1:00 pm
In Limbo Land at Lehman
by Paige Churchman (New York City)
When your coworker goes into quit-and-stay mode, it’s a drag but you can work around it. Your job gets a little harder when your boss does it. But when your company gets stuck in a holding pattern like that, even for a day or two, well, that’s [...]
September 22nd, 2008, 6:03 am
Voices of Experience: Rachel Glaser, COO/CFO at Reunion.com
by Natalie Sabia (New York City)
Her journey started immediately after business school when she landed a much-coveted job at Disney. Over twenty years, she worked her way up in the company, holding various leadership positions in finance, operations and technology with studio entertainment, as well as corporate and consumer products divisions.
The imminent birth [...]
September 19th, 2008, 1:00 pm
Intrepid Women: My Life on the Street, Part II
by Paige Churchman (New York City)
The next morning, Genro and Paco marveled that we hadn’t been chased out, and we set off for breakfast at the St. Francis Mission, more than 50 blocks north. Outside a church on some midtown street, we joined a long line, spreading ourselves out among the real homeless people as [...]
September 19th, 2008, 6:00 am
Intrepid Women: My Life on the Street, Part I
by Paige Churchman (New York City)
Labor Day weekend approached, and all week I’d answered what-are-you-doing-this-weekend with “oh, sticking around.” True, but… For the next four days and three nights, I would be living like, and with, the homeless. I had signed up for a Street Retreat run by the Zen Peacemakers. [...]
September 18th, 2008, 1:00 pm
Movers and Shakers: Real Estate
by Sima Matthes (New York City)
We try to focus on the positive here at The Glass Hammer, giving examples of women who’ve made it or are well on their way to the top of an industry. And much progress has been made, as can be seen from our reports on women in industries from [...]
September 18th, 2008, 6:00 am
The Future of Investment Banking
by Lisa Novak (New York City)
In an interview on Bloomberg in July, Nouriel Roubini, a professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business at NYU and Chairman of RGE Monitor, had some dire predictions about the economy. Foreseeing no end to the current financial crises, he warned, “It’s a vicious circle between [...]
Now in its third year, the Women and Wealth forum was created to meet the specific needs of high-net-worth women and their advisors. In response to feedback from past attendees and industry experts, the all-new 2008 program will include more focus on hedge funds and other alternative investments, newly emerging ‘hot’ investment strategies, [...]
The program is now available – please contact Sara Thompson to receive a
copy of the program on +44 (0)20 7316 9722 or email [email protected]
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