Mellody Hobson Makes History It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Mellody Hobson on becoming the first African-American woman to chair the Economic Club of Chicago. Hobson joined the club some 20 years ago – at the time becoming one of its youngest members ever. The business and civic club announced Mellody’s appointment as […]
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President Trump recently hit first 100 days in office. While the media has heavily covered his attempts at immigration and health care reform, coverage about gender issues has been less concentrated. Let’s take a brief look at how women’s issues have fared under the new administration.
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Among the crop of new books on business and economics, some titles about behavioral economics and reform of US government institutions caught my eye.
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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do In light of all the recent discussion of mentors and sponsors, I found Harvard Business Review’s recent article, “Six Things Every Mentor Should Do,” enlightening. According to Vineet Chopra, MD and Sanjay Saint, MD – there are six things every mentor should consider:
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RAY DALIO The 5 Criteria for Success I recently watched Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater – the world’s largest hedge fund – speak with Andrew Ross Sorkin on Deal B%k at The New York Times. Dalio grew up in a middle class home, the only child of Italian-American parents. He began investing at the age
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Just before International Women’s Day on March 8, a second bronze statue appeared directly opposite the famous bronze bull on Wall Street. The four foot tall girl, hands on her hips, stands with a defiant gaze leveled at the bull. A plaque at the girl’s feet reads: “Know the power of women in leadership. She makes a
I recently came across an interesting article in The Harvard Business Review by Hal Gregerson, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center. In it, he draws connections between a photographer’s creative process and how leaders can learn from that process. It started me thinking: what insight can we glean from artists? There is plenty
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Conventional wisdom suggests that the long-term is the clear path to success when it comes to investing and business strategy. However, the authors of a new study published by McKinsey demonstrate that short-term thinking is crippling the long-term success of firms. According to the study, managing for the next earnings call and making decisions based
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Depending on how you look at the millennial generation, they are either innovative and optimistic or entitled youth with outsized expectations. As with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Millennials may have been more cosseted than past generations and they were not prepared for massive college debt, the recession, and subsequent jobs
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2016 – The Year in Review 2016 was one for the record books. The British voted to leave the European Union; we saw our first female presidential candidate; and Donald Trump, the recently inaugurated 45th President of the United States, pulled off a victory that many did not anticipate. Yet amidst these transitions, one thing
