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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

If a target got through the initial screen, the group was able to perform the necessary due diligence in three or four weeks. GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. One question that seems reasonable in light of the low ($1.75 Pfizer Inc.

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Women, Finance the World You Want

Harvard Business Review

This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code. Project this image of the feminine ideal into the world of investing and the only "socially acceptable" roles for women are limited — perhaps doing due diligence as a "helper" or writing a check as a donor. Investing is about taking stock in you.