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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan ReEntry Program. And last week J.P.

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When He Retires and She Still Works, What Happens?

Harvard Business Review

I’m seeing a surprising new phenomenon when it comes to career arcs and transitions, with women happily and successfully working longer than their husbands. Not only did the female CEOs in the study report that they were the primary caregiver when their children were young, but that “their families took precedence over their careers.”

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