Forté Forum: The MBA Value Proposition

Thinking about an MBA? The Forté Foundation invites women to attend a Forté Forum event to learn, network, and discover what an MBA can do for future career success. Forums will be held in cities throughout the U.S. and in London.

Meet with admissions representatives from up to 30 top business schools across the country, and talk to GMAT test-preparation companies. Learn from the experiences of MBA alumnae and current employees at prestigious companies.

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A Global Fight For Women’s Rights

Imagine a world where waxing your eyebrows is taboo, going out with your girlfriends is prohibited and covering yourself in black cloth from head to toe is mandatory. These restrictions are put on women in Saudi Arabia every day.

Women are not allowed to drive a car because men will be distracted on the road. Women are not allowed to go out in a group without a male guardian because of the potential chaos that could erupt. Women have limited employment options, are segregated from men in classrooms and are only taught by male professors through television monitors. Women are only allowed to see female doctors in hospitals.

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Cocktails for a Cause

October 12th, the Medical Research Junior Board Foundation (MRJBF) is hosting the 15th annual Cocktails for A Cause charity event. The gala will take place at the Museum for Contemporary Art, in Chicago, and will charge a $115 cover that benefits the Children’s Memorial Hospital.

The Cocktails for A Cause charity event is the MRJBF’s signature gala. It is catered by Chicago’s hottest restaurants and set in the Museum’s Sympathy for the Devil and Rock and Roll art exhibit. Also taking place that evening will be a live and silent auction of travel packages, sports memorabilia and extravagant fashion accessories.

To learn more information or buy tickets in advance please visit https://www.childrensmemorial.org/cfc.

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The Best Work Shoes – Flats Category

The best work shoe is a topic often discussed with reverence among circles of professional women. All of my friends are on an almost messianic quest to find the work shoe that is comfortable yet stylish, affordable yet durable.

Though these choices are hotly contested, the following are the top three contenders for Best Work Shoe in the World in the Flats category:

  1. french-sole.bmpFrench Soles, Helium Flat. Standing the test of time, French Soles are the original ballerina flat, and have been around in relatively the same form since 1978. Extremely comfortable, with a cushioned sole, the sides come up higher than your normal flat. This may provide additional support, or prove irritating to the ankle bone, depending on the shape of your foot. These shoes come in a virtually unlimited array of styles and colors, but we love the Helium model, with its Chanel look-alike quilting and adorable bow. This model comes in black, bronze, silver, gold, and brown, and is available in leather, suede and patent. Prices start from $225.

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Healthier AND Wealthier?

It’s the modern Faustian bargain – furthering your career at the expense of your health. Pizza and Chinese from Seamless web at your desk, all-nighters working on a huge deal, constant travel, no time for the gym even though it’s in your building – do these unhealthy behaviors sound familiar? As a personal trainer, all too often I work with clients who’ve traded their health for the chance to get ahead in their careers.

But is this really necessary? Not necessarily, according to scientists.

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Private shopping event at té casan

Bring your daughters and girlfriends to New York City’s largest shoe boutique, located at 382 West Broadway, NYC (between Spring and Broome streets). Té casan, which means “a woman’s path,” will donate 20% of the proceeds from the evening’s sales to inMotion.

Té casan will open its doors to the friends of inMotion from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Light refreshments will be served.

Since 1993, inMotion, has confronted the challenging needs of families in crisis by providing free legal services to low-income women and children.

Fashion with Compassion doesn’t end on October 10. From October 10–17, té casan will extend its generous partnership with inMotion. Simply mention inMotion while you shop, and inMotion will receive 20% of all proceeds.

To RSVP or to request more information about this unique shopping event, contact rsvp@inmotiononline.org or call 646.442.1185.

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The Revolving Door of Public/Private Sector Careers

I want you to engage in a little thought experiment with me. Think back to the time when you applied to college or graduate school. Now think about those essays you wrote, earnestly explaining to the admissions officers how you needed to obtain a degree from their university. If you were like me, chances are pretty good that your essays were filled with visions of social justice, civil rights, helping the poor or serving the public good in some other quantifiable way. Chances are not good that you wrote something along the lines of, “I need to attend your university so that, immediately upon graduation, I can work for a huge corporation and make tons of money.”

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Companies with Women on the Board Perform Better

Good news from the boardroom this week. A new study concluded that Fortune 500 companies with more women on their boards perform better financially than companies with fewer female directors. The study, The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards, was conducted by the non-profit organization Catalyst, which works to expand opportunities for women in business. It found that, although women only occupy 14.6% of seats on the board of directors of Fortune 500 companies, they have a major impact on a company’s financial success.

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Is there such a thing as a free lunch?

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Yes. There are endless free lunches, dinners and drinks if you do the conference circuit.

Are trade shows and conferences really worth going to? Every day there seems to an invitation in my inbox to be somewhere.

Last week the SIBOS show hit Boston. SIBOS is to men in financial technology what Christmas is to the rest of us. Gifts and drunk people.

Squeezy stress balls, free cocktail vouchers, karaoke hosted by Norwegian or Swedish banks. All in the name of straight through processing, clearing and settlement and all things IT for finance.

The topics discussed at SIBOS are not really life changing at all, but people in the office are ready to poison their co- worker’s coffee to make sure they get a spot.

The best thing about it is that it’s a traveling circus so some years you can get a really good vacation out of it. Sydney, Singapore, San Francisco and Stockholm have all been memorable. People have had to take many sick days after to recover from the jetlag and the booze.

Did Boston deliver the SIBOS experience? If you went, let me know who won the karaoke contest.

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Intrepid Women: A Power Lunch at Peter Luger’s

steak.jpgThe Intrepid Woman Explorer series is designed to bring our readers a close-up and personal view of some activities and elements of business culture that have been historically male-dominated.

So I thought, what better way to kick off the series than a review of my recent dining experience at Peter Luger’s, the legendary Brooklyn steakhouse that has defined the experience of power lunches and expense account dinners in New York for over 120 years.

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