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...discussion of engineering challenges (in which both Wang and Mike demonstrate their engineering expertise). They discuss the recurring subject of the client's political dynamics and the tendency of the sub-teams to be unproductive. The client contact expresses his feeling that he is unable to change certain areas of the company because of the different cultures, and he looks to the consultants as advocates for change. In a very short period of time, the PRTM team has won the support of the forward-thinking client staff-members. You can feel how relieved they are to have a group...
...friends on the back and calls them "boys"; another recruit is a "stud." Several of the analysts' cubicles sport posters of scantily clad women, advertisements for a Web site called Bikini.com. "You get a bunch of 22, 23-year old alpha males, you're going to get a certain environment," an analyst tells me. "It's a well-dressed locker room...
...Middle Eastern (although I don't notice any black analysts). So why the gender imbalance? Analysts speculate that most women are turned off by the aggressive, combative nature of investment banking. "The environment can be a little crass, but it's fun," one analyst tells me. "There's a certain type of woman who can work here, and a certain type who can't." Shemmer echoes that sentiment: "In general I-banking is more male-oriented. There's a lot of testosterone, it's considered the old Wall Street--maybe they shy away from that." Broadview has more women than...
...early November, the MFT proposed a list of 20 changes to the process. Among them, the union said it supports repealing waivers that allow uncertified--but qualified--teachers to teach in certain areas...
...Some departments have been much more successful than others at hiring women in the recent past, and I want to be certain that we learn from those successes, and use that knowledge to catalyze change elsewhere," Knowles wrote in his letter to the Faculty...