Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Carla Young of the Bank of Montreal reminds women in business of some of those basics that can make or break your career. NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Sometimes the best way to find success is to go back to the basics. She shares the following 5 success tips for women in business: Find your tribe. Trust your instincts. Stop saying “Sorry.”

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Unlike a bank loan, the private equity investors have a stake in the company as shareholders, giving them a vested interest in making sure the company is successful. With private equity funding, businesses can focus on improving their business without worrying about repaying a bank back with interest.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 12, 2012

” – Jane DeFlorio, managing director of Deutsche Bank. Whether it’s a three-hour client meeting or I’m at a dinner party and I’m sitting next to someone interesting who I would … like to develop a relationship with, I will send myself emails. “It’s really OK to ask.

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Women on Business

MARCH 9, 2013

If you need something visual, think about Bank of America and Countrywide. Some things have a long sales cycle and that can frustrating, but sometimes it is necessary. Patience wins way more business than rushing into a business deal because it looks great. Businesses owners work hard and at the end of the day all you have is what you do.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The comparable figure for the country’s six biggest investment and commercial banks is 30%. Devin Banerjee shares the following additional information from the NAIC report with Bloomberg: “At nine of those 10 biggest private-equity firms industrywide, women account for an average 8.1%

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Here are some of Henna’s five steps women can take to get a corporate board seat: “Get some Non-Profit Board experience – According to Carol Tomei, CFO of the Home Depot, who sits on the Boards of UPS and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, non-profit boards are an excellent way to start getting Board experience.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Check it out below and stay tuned for more videos in this series coming soon!

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Recently the Initiative for Competitive Inner City teamed up with the Bank of America and the U.S. A lot of amazing ideas don’t get funding due to a stumble during the pitch and through lack of efficient communication. The only way to change that is to practice. They do so at events hosted by Fortune magazine.

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Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2012

I missed the event details for my daughter’s science competition, missed some bathroom renovation details, and didn’t notice that my client hadn’t signed the check until at the bank even though it was mentioned earlier. As I came to this conclusion I wondered if as bosses we do the same thing with our staff.

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Women on Business

JULY 25, 2012

I had an opportunity to interview Tera Coon, Communications and Public Affairs Director for Sterling Savings Bank and learn more about their Employee Volunteer Program, involvement in the community and the positive impact it has made. BW: Why is it important to Sterling to have employees engaged in the community?

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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2012

million to two Haitian providers of mobile banking services. This trend has the ability to shape our world in a positive way that everyone can be a part of. The Puget Sound Business Journal reported that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the USAID awarded $3.2

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Women on Business

MAY 10, 2012

Many businesses today that would have traditionally sought after bank financing are turning to other solutions. For example if you are expanding and need to purchase $300,000 in new equipment a bank would traditionally finance this type of purchase. If so this may be a cheaper and quicker option for you.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. Invest in New Business Ideas.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 27, 2012

Maybe you check your email every morning and then remember later to check your bank account. Instead of interrupting larger tasks with little ones, bunch all of your little tasks into a group. If you do these similar tasks one right after another instead of leaving your “internet browsing” mode, you will save time.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 24, 2011

Develop Win-Win strategies to Benefit All– Harper needed to expand, but had limited capital and the banks were not rushing to lend to her (like today).

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Women on Business

MARCH 14, 2011

Yup, cash, the kind you want in the bank, the kind you want in your wallet, the kind that you love to see multiply like yeast rising into bread. Over 100 bright, creative women, mostly solopreneurs, mompreneurs, with a smattering of corporate women listened to Sandra talk about CASH. Wait a minute.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Large investors saw a crimp in their disposable cash as they had to shore up existing investments and pay down on bank debt. This left entrepreneurs and small businesses on a boat without a paddle, searching for ways to raise capital in a tight environment. Crowdfunding is potentially the solution for little guy and the start up.

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Women on Business

JULY 9, 2012

You can fill your bank account with money, but you have to STOP trying to get your clients to BUY what your selling and start serving what they are asking for. Work on HELPING your ideal client get what they want! To do that you’ll have to stop preaching and start GIVING. Here is some good news. More income is in your reach.

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Women on Business

JULY 9, 2012

You can fill your bank account with money, but you have to STOP trying to get your clients to BUY what your selling and start serving what they are asking for. Work on HELPING your ideal client get what they want! To do that you’ll have to stop preaching and start GIVING. Here is some good news. More income is in your reach.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

During the early years of my career, while I was at a small community savings bank, my manager sat me down and told me I needed a little bit of the “H word.” Step up to the table and take a seat. If you don’t come to the table, you can’t play the game. 3) Embrace the “H” word. I did not know what that meant.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Do you feel a sense of anxiety rising up from your stomach to your throat, or a heavy, weighted pressure in your chest?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Just be sure to get a receipt from the charity for the cash, or keep your credit card statement, bank record or other receipt as documentation. Most charities accept gifts made in cash, by check, credit card or wire transfer. Remember those donations you made for disaster relief after the devastating earthquake in Haiti?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.”

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

She has also held executive positions in banks and healthcare companies, including M&T Bank, Montefiore Medical Center, and St. About the Author: A cultural anthropologist, Andrea Simon, Ph.D., is president of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC) out of New York. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Stewart began her career consulting on the design and development of custom e-learning/learning management system installations for companies such as Verizon, CVS, The World Bank, and the federal government.

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Women on Business

MARCH 4, 2011

The President has also been a proponent of charging major banks a financial disaster crisis fee, and this was included in the budget. Among the various cuts, his budget also proposes to limit certain itemized deductions on mortgage interest and charitable deductions and repeal LIFO, an accounting treatment for inventories.

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