By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of The Glass Hammer As 2010 draws to a close, I want to thank all the supporters and readers of theglasshammer.com. We are continuing to enjoy our journey of informing, inspiring, and empowering our readers through news, advice, and profiles on amazing professional women. We have been thrilled with […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of The Glass Hammer Where does the fine line lie between lip service and action when it comes to gender and other diversity initiatives? Can institutionalized behaviors be changed? Is there hope that women can reach critical mass in leadership positions in the middle, upper, and most senior echelons […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of The Glass Hammer It has been a busy week at theglasshammer.com – as you can see from our coverage we have been attending several events: The Women’s Conference, the FWA’s event with PIMCO’s Mohamed El-Erian, and Deutsche Bank’s Women on Wall Street Conference. What constitutes a good event, […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of The Glass Hammer Theglasshammer.com is in Norway this week reporting on gender parity and how Norway is working to achieve critical mass for women in leadership positions. Legislation resulting in quotas has furthered progress there, read us next week to see the full findings. Back on home turf, […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) The web provides so many ways to bring women together, and help them get to the next step in their careers. And The Glass Hammer is always looking for ways to collaborate with and support other publications that have a mission similar to our own – to inform, […]
By Melissa J. Anderson and Nicki Gilmour (New York City) Thought Leadership is creative, progressive and often full of risks as you need your team to follow through on your vision, whether it is the next innovation of a product or just a process that needs to be improved. “If you’re scared of offending people, […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of theglasshammer.com This is the second article in this series, investigating why staying technical is important on the path to promotion – either as an executive or an eventual board member. Don’t forget to register for our upcoming panel discussion and networking event for women in technology on July […]
By Nicki Gilmour, CEO and Founder of theglasshammer.com (New York City) Part 1 of a 2 part series on “Why women should stay technical,” an introduction to our upcoming event Women in IT: Staying Technical and Getting to the Top, held in conjunction with Goldman Sachs and Accenture. Recently, the New York Times reported on […]
By Nicki Gilmour, CEO and Founder of theglasshammer.com (New York City) Yes and no. Yes we need all CEO’s to understand the bottom line impact of this productivity issue on their businesses. However that is only part of the solution as strategic plans must be designed and implemented with some sort of a target attached […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Yesterday, theglasshammer.com hosted its second Women on the Buy-Side networking breakfast and panel discussion. Nicki Gilmour, founder and CEO of theglasshammer.com, began the event by explaining that the purpose of the gathering was to draw together top women in the investment management industry to discuss the topic of […]