By Robin Madell (San Francisco) Last year, the 2012 Accounting MOVE report investigated the role of community service for women in accounting. In the 2013 MOVE Project [PDF], Joanne Cleaver, author of The Career Lattice and the report’s creator, set out to understand why mid-career women in accounting firms either stay the course on the […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Last week, the Families and Work Institute presented its Work Life Legacy Awards, marking ten years celebrating work life pioneers. The FWI, led by President and Co-Founder Ellen Galinsky, has spent the past few decades studying how families are affected by the demands of our rapidly evolving workplace. […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) For nearly 20 years, Jennifer Lee, Regional Managing Director at Wells Fargo Private Bank, has shaped her career around building businesses and leading people. One of the key pieces of advice she has to offer based on her experience is to give skeptics the opportunity to share their […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Yesterday, hundreds of institutional investors and small and diverse fund managers converged at Consortium 2013, for networking, career development, and discussion around the future of the industry. Renae Griffin, Founder and Principal of RG & Associates and founder of the conference, opened the morning with what she called […]
By Ambassador Gianna Angelopoulos, Vice-Chairman of the Dean’s Council of the Harvard Kennedy School In May 2000, I received a call asking me to take over the Athens Olympic Games Organizing Committee. Three years earlier, I had led and won Athens’ successful bid for the 2004 Olympics. Now I was being asked to rescue an […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “There are so many things I know now that I wish I had known when I was younger,” Marilyn Nagel said with a laugh. Nagel, CEO of Watermark, continued, “I think the biggest thing I wish I had known is that who is in your network is just […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) An interesting working paper out of Harvard Business School suggests that some companies may be relying on the work-family narrative to avoid facing systemic problems affecting both women and men in their workforces. The study, written by Irene Padavic, Florida State University, and Robin J. Ely, Harvard University, […]
This article is part of our June Pride series – check back all month as we explore what it means to be an LGBT woman or ally in the professional workplace. By Robin Madell (San Francisco) Coming out at work is not a one-time event that’s over and done with in a single revelation. For […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Last week Pew released the results of new research on breadwinner moms, a rising demographic within the US population. According to Pew’s analysis of US Census data, women are the sole or primary financial contributor in 40 percent of households with kids under 18. That’s up from only […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Carolyn Vardi, M&A Partner in White & Case‘s New York office, says one of the primary challenges for women in the legal profession is the relationship between time and family responsibilities. “The practice of law is based fundamentally on time: the time you spend with clients, the time […]