Join us on Wednesday, March 19th to hear Kavita Ramdas, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Fund for Women.
Contributed by Pamela Capalad
Situation: Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, caught with a hooker.
Immediate Consequences: Scandal. Ruined political career. Resignation. Endless op-ed columns written in an effort to explain the psychology that motivated Spitzer.
Collateral Consequences: Headlines one week later read “‘Client 9’ call-girl now online music star.” Known as “Kristen” on the wiretaps, Ashley Alexandra Dupré already has two hit internet singles and her MySpace page was viewed 2 million times in under 24 hours and 6 million times to date. Hustler and Penthouse have offered her magazine spreads. A 20-photo pictorial of her, scantily clad, has already run in the New York Post.
Connie is a co-founder of SixFigureStart, a success coaching firm for college students and professionals.
Most Fortune 500 companies agree that 360 degree feedback (feedback from your boss, your peers, and your team) is the best way to identify and then improve your performance on the job. These four basic principles form the logical underpinning of the 360 degree feedback theory:
- Behavior can be observed and measured.
- Behavior is a direct reflection of leadership.
- Leadership is a direct reflection of performance.
- Performance can be observed and measured.
Late Sunday night, in a conference room high up at the troubled investment bank’s Midtown headquarters, Bear Stearns allowed itself to be sold to JPMorgan at the fire sale price of $2 per share, in order to avoid impending bankruptcy. At $236 million for the extensive prime brokerage and clearing operations of the 85-year old investment bank, JP Morgan seems to have gotten a better deal on Bear Stearns than anyone can remember since the last Barney’s warehouse sale.
Indeed, some high flying hedge-fund managers have paid more for their vacation homes than Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase paid for the entire Bear Stearns operation, including the bank’s Madison Ave headquarters, said to be worth at least a billion on its own.
The Creative Business in the Digital Era seminar will help you understand the opportunities presented by open IP (intellectual property) and how being open should be a central part of your creative business model.
“I don’t like the word balance,” Annemarie DiCola said, when asked how she balances her career and personal life. “It implies a perfect symmetry.”
Annemarie DiCola is the Chief Executive Officer of Trepp LLC, a leading technology company in the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) sector. Ms. DiCola began her career in law after she earned her degree at New York University Law School and worked at a private law firm. Due to some unexpected twists and turns in her career, she found herself at Trepp.
It’s been a while since we last ran a restaurant review in The Glass Hammer. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t been eating! Here, we offer you our three top recommendations for downtown power-lunches in New York City.
Our top three …
- Nobu
- Bouley
- Chanterelle
Check out our reviews after the jump …
We are delighted to invite you to attend The everywoman Conference Scotland. The conference is a unique opportunity, giving you rare access through presentations and workshops to some of the UK’s most successful women in business – women who have taken an idea and through hard work and determination made it into a successful business.
Contributed by Sophie Fletcher
Technology is changing the financial arena. No longer limited by execution venue, exchange or geographical brokers and dealers, trading moves to where liquidity is greatest and so, the market evolves. As players in this dynamic market, women should be familiar with the technology behind the process of making educated trades. The Glass Hammer has compiled a brief run-down of the top technologies our readers should be familiar with. The first in this five part series is Algorithmic Trading technology.
Successful collaboration brings all the good things Corporate America has to offer:
- Promotions
- Salary Increases
- Great year end bonuses
- Stock Options
- Fun at work
So it’s surprising that more people don’t practice collaboration at work on a more consistent basis. Perhaps there are not enough role models out there. If you are lucky enough to have a manager that collaborates well, take note and try to learn from his or her behavior. On the chance that you don’t, here are some behaviors you may want to think about developing, in order to improve your capacity for collaboration: Read more