Back in my financial analyst days, I logged an alarming amount of frequent flier miles. In 1997, when I was pregnant, my OB cut be off from travel in September, and I still managed to qualify for United’s Mileage Plus Premier Executive level. I’ve been thinking a lot about packing lately as I prepare to… [Read More]
Blog
McKinsey Study on Women and Management
McKinsey & Company releases annual studies of women in corporate America, usually with interesting and provocative conclusions. This year’s report is out, and it’s worth a read. It’s clear that women are not advancing in the workplace as much as numbers would suggest they should, but why is that? We’ll ignore the doofuses who say… [Read More]
Why I Still Use Cash
I don’t use a debit card. I have one that I use only at the cash station. I’m suspicious of debit cards, and I can’t fully explain why. It just seems to me that whenever the bank pushes something hard, it’s a better deal for them than for me. I also think that using cash… [Read More]
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Finance Textbooks
Pablo Fernandez is a professor at the business school at the Universitad de Navarra, a Spanish institution. One of his area of research is how finance is taught. The idea is that students pick up concepts in class that then carry over to how they interpret finance on the job. For example, he conducts a… [Read More]
Five Movies About Emerging Markets
These won’t make you a better investor, but they offer some insight into parts of the world that are changing. And they’re really good. Brat (Brother) (1997, Russia): This is a film about life in St. Petersburg after Perestroika. I was in St. Petersburg in 1992, and it all looks terribly familiar to me although,… [Read More]
