Greg Smith's Op-Ed piece in yesterday's NY Times about Goldman Sachs' "toxic culture" was a cowardly act. By tossing a verbal hand grenade on his way out the door, he sullied the reputations of the vast majority of the people at the firm who work and live by the highest possible professional standards every single day.
I left Goldman Sachs in 1993 because I wanted to start my own business. In...
I had the great pleasure to speak at a Compass in the Americas event last night at RBS in Stamford, CT.
The building is gorgeous -- I would be tempted to work there for that reason alone!
I teamed up with 4 fabulous women on the event's choreography: Nancy Keane, Jen Fitzgibbon, Tejal Wadhwani, and Maxine Gibbs. These gals are smart, warm, gracious, and made the night an absolute hit.
Roughly 150 people...
I spent 14 very happy years at GS. I first met Lloyd in 1981 when Goldman acquired J. Aron. Lloyd was just "one of the guys" back then but everyone instinctively knew that he was going to bat .500.
As a salesperson, you are the chief negotiator between the trading desk and your clients. Sometimes you have just seconds to get a trade done before the market moves - when it all...
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For those of you who don't know Gayle -- she is a ROCKSTAR. Her book about women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan will hit the bookstands in mid-March, Harper Collins the publisher. STAY TUNED.
January 28, 2011
The bruhaha about women exiting Wall Street rages on. I think it would...
I just spent 3 amazing days in Silicon Valley at our first ever "Alley to the Valley" Summit. The purpose was to connect some of the female movers and shakers from the East Coast with their female counterparts on the West Coast. The Summit was held at the Rosewood Hotel & Spa on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park -- home to Stanford University and many of the heaviest hitters in...
