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.” I love to see more women invest in themselves” she says, “and determine the course of their own lives.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Finance charges are negotiated. Company learns how to benefit from changes. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Body of Knowledge.

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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? How do I know that the money will always be present in my life when and where I need it? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great insights Susan.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How creative must we become in the New Order of Business? How far-reaching are business practices? How much further should we extend ethics? They don’t know how to cope. Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. We cannot fool them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Bank regulators in particular have been depicted as captives for years, and have even taken to describing themselves as such. Still, there is some context that’s inevitably missing, and as a former banking-regulation reporter for the American Banker , I feel called to fill some of it in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, gave a speech Monday in which he used the word “culture” 45 times. Here’s how he defined it: Culture relates to the implicit norms that guide behavior in the absence of regulations or compliance rules—and sometimes despite those explicit restraints.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

You will understand how these attributes affect people through the eyes and experiences of highly successful leaders. You will learn how to put the attributes in play for yourself in your own leadership situation. For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs. People Often Say They Have… But Really Haven’t! It’s lonely at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

And getting past the usual employee complaints about the financial sector (long hours, for one), he offers several often-hidden occupational hazards for the stellar university graduates who think they can make it in the industry while also holding on to ethics and personal responsibility. Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

“Frankly, we’re often at a loss with how to help them.” The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. Smart men and women in finance and corporate law always grow rich, or at least well-to-do.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve This is also true of executives. Building Balanced Cultures. Implement metrics without myopia.

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