Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Since you, the disruptive entrepreneur, can count on incumbent resistance (if not necessarily physical attack) down the road once you're successful, the question is: What can you do early on to be prepared for the onslaught? Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. They are the whole point of business."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

But it isn't true that the entire finance and investment industry is guilty of the cultural lapse that Smith is describing. One of our chapters tells the story of Mabel Yu, a Vanguard fixed income analyst who had the courage to resist buying Wall Street's "toxic waste" in the form of mortgage-backed derivatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

That we resisted the temptation to the extent that we did is a source of at least some consolation for me. The once outsized profits of those financial services firms taking what turned out to be foolish levels of risk led to pressure on their competitors, including us.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. Smart men and women in finance and corporate law always grow rich, or at least well-to-do.

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