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We had a fabulous 85 Broads event at Hult in Cambridge on Thursday night. Got to meet some terrific MBA students and reconnect with some of our great members including Kathleen McQuiggan, Katherine Huang, Tara Faulkner, and Julia Yao Cooper. Hult is a little gem and if b-school is in your future you should definitely check out their program.

I also spoke at Tim Butler’s “New Path” program at HBS on Friday — was thoroughly jazzed by the women I met there and think Tim’s CareerLeader model is amazing.

I am always energized when I get the opportunity to speak and am more convinced th…

85 Broads is hosting an all day conference on Saturday, April 24, 2010 in partnership with (and at) the NYU Stern School of Business.

We have an awesome line up of speakers including Bobby Kennedy, Susan Lyne (CEO of Gilt) Niko Canner (former co-founder of Katzenbach Partners and current senior partner of Booz & Co.) Nomi Ghez, former II ranked analyst and Goldman Sachs partner, and Aswath Damodaran, finance guru and teacher at NYU Stern.

Also speaking: Cindy Padnos, founder of Illuminate Ventures who has written a terrific report on women launching high growth businesses in the tec…

I got an email from Alex Dietrich, one of the coolest women in our network, about a congressional gold medal ceremony in Washington DC on March 10th for Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) who served their country during World War II.

Alex was a jet fighter pilot in the Navy and has asked that we get the word out about the ceremony and these amazing women.

She wrote: "Nearly 70 years have passed since WW II. In those critical days over a thousand women pilots took to the skies in military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces to relieve desperately needed male pilots for c…

Sunday, January 31, 2010. I hope you will share Mary Ellen’s spectacular story with everyone you know. I was blown away.

Major Milestones and Turning Points:
My grandfather, Bubba, was the first person whom I truly loved to pass away. On the day of his funeral, I began to think about the impact Bubba had on my life. Looking out at the people from all different walks of life who had gathered for his service, I was reminded of the core principle that Bubba stood for: to always accept people for who they are, regardless of race, social standing or education. It is honoring this “Bubba P…

85 Broads has many awesome friends but few are more awesome than our friends at Barclays. Tom Kalaris, who runs Barclays Wealth Management, introduced me to Craig Jones who heads up Diversity. In a word, Craig totally ROCKS. He rocks because he is willing to experiment and try new things — he is one of the people I most respect and admire at Barclays.

I asked Craig if we could get Tim Bond, who is a truly brilliant global strategist, to do a live Jam Session with us. We wanted to hear Tim’s prognostications on the global economy for 2010. For one hour today he totally wowed our memb…

One of my favorite quotes is by John Petit-Senn:

“True courage is like a kite.. a contrary wind raises it higher.”

For the record, I had an amazing career at Goldman Sachs. I got to be part of one of the greatest franchises on the planet – over the last 3 decades I have had the opportunity to contribute to so many amazing organizations, my own family, and to 85 Broads — all because I got a shot at the title — to join a firm that allowed me to share my wealth with so many others.

While at Goldman Sachs, I worked with some of the best and brightest people in the business – I had…

In Afghanistan, where domestic violence is epidemic, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon speaks to young mothers who’ve survived abuse and want women’s rights to top the military’s agenda.

Sitting atop a burgundy pillow with her back pressed up against the bare white wall of the shelter she now calls home, Naseema pushes her polka-dot headscarf away from her eyes and begins to tell her story.

She was around 16 years old when her father, who suffered from mental illness, married her off without her consent, for a sum she does not know, to a man eight years her senior. Naseema’s mother had left her chil…

JOB CREATION: Look to Entrepreneurs

Editor’s note: Amy M. Wilkinson is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University Center for Business and Government and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is writing a book on next generation leaders.

Washington (CNN) — It’s the oldest trick in the political playbook: Call together a “summit” of fancy people so you’ll appear to be focused on work that must get done.

Thursday, the White House convened CEOs from companies such as Boeing, AT&T, Comcast and Dow Corning, top leaders of the United Steelworkers, United Food and Commercial…

In honor of my daughter’s 21st birthday, I am going to thank 5 great women every day until I reach 10,000. This will take a few years to do but what a great way to start the day! I want to thank women who are rocking the world for other women — women who have the guts, the passion, the drive, and the talent to blaze new trails for themselves and for other women to follow.

The first 5 women on my list are:

Meredith Hanson: Mer is my golden sunshine. She is a brilliant young artist and defines the word “trailblazer.”

Patty Tiebout: Patty celebrated her 82nd birthday by waterskiing…

Read what Alison Levine and Sheila Wellington have to say on how to take smart risk!

Leadership
How To Take Smart Risks
Sara Eckel, 08.19.09, 6:00 PM ET

Shortly after last year’s economic crisis hit, many experts on Wall Street and in academia speculated about whether the meltdown might have been averted if more women held decision-making positions in the financial sector. The argument, which was reported in ForbesWoman and other publications, went that because women tend to be more cautious and conservative, they might not have taken the disastrous risks that their male counterpart…