By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) On The Glass Hammer, we’ve covered a number of corporate philanthropy and development programs. Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about the importance of making sure those programs are sustainable in the long term, and measuring success over time. But by maintaining a large-scale, institutional focus (as important […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “As my career on the trading floor progressed, I began noticing women disappearing all around me,” said Anne Erni, head of diversity at Bloomberg. Before moving to Bloomberg, Erni was one of the founders of WILL, Lehman Brothers‘ women’s network. After founding WILL, she said, “I really began […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) The World Economic Forum has just released its Global Gender Gap Report [PDF] for 2010. And for the second year in a row, Iceland topped the list as having the smallest gender gap. The report ranks countries based on gender balance related to economic participation and opportunity, educational […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “Lead with your heart and don’t be afraid of who you are,” said Sara Grillo, Principal at Diamond Oak Capital Advisors and Adjunct Professor at Marymount Manhattan College. She continued, “If you’re a leader, a role model, a mentor, you have to live it. You have to breathe […]
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) Based on the latest Catalyst figures, women constitute only 11 percent of U.S. Fortune 1000 company board seats and 25 percent of Fortune 1000 companies still have no women on their boards. Numbers are similar in Europe, where women account for just 9.7 percent of board members in the top […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) According to Pamela J. Craig, Chief Financial Officer at Accenture, the best piece of advice she has to offer is: “Just go for it.” “It sounds so simple,” she said. “That was particularly the case with my job as CFO… it just came up. And, my husband and […]
Contributed by Beth Collinge of CTG – a division of ILX Group plc. Weak US employment data – non-farm payrolls unexpectedly fell by 95,000 last month – emphasized the fragile nature of the economic recovery in the US. Talk of currency wars resulted in high volatility in foreign exchange markets and protectionism as countries are […]
By Esther Hanscom, Hanscom Consulting Inc. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” – Winston Churchill So reads the quote on the site, Women In Philanthropy, an organization for women transforming the South Carolina Midlands community through active and collective philanthropic investment. The group is […]
Tuesday marked The Glass Hammer’s biggest “women on the buy-side” investment management event so far – due in no small part to the turbulence and uncertainty in the capital markets, driven by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Moderated by journalist Heidi Moore, our panelists discussed how Dodd-Frank will impact the […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) On Tuesday, the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future held its 7th annual summit, entitled “Sustainability, We Get it… Now What?” Ann Goodman, Ph.D., Executive Director of WNSF, said, “By now the term sustainability has entered the vernacular. Now that everybody gets sustainability, how can we use it […]