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Women executives thriving at the top?
Have the corridors of power on Wall Street gotten more hospitable to women in recent years? It would be hard to argue that the financial crisis has been kind to women executives. Some big names took big falls, like Erin Callan and Zoe Cruz. A lot of male executive took their lumps as well.
Now
Ruth Porat, the most powerful woman on Wall Street
"She never makes you feel like you are disturbing her personal life; I don't even know if she has one." So says one admirer of Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat, the subject of a fascinating profile in the New York Times --which at times reads like a parody of a modern Wall Street woman. The type w
Zoe Cruz hedge funds debut
It has been known for a while that Zoe Cruz, "Cruz Missile," who was among the better known scapegoats of the financial crisis, was aiming to start her own hedge fund firm. Recall she was famously sacked by her mentor at Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS ) as the financial crisis heated up.
There's
Women on Wall Street: Gains come hard
Was the financial crisis disproportionately hard on female executives?
To be sure, there was a lot of suffering by male and female executives and managers. The biggest casualties were the CEOs at the top of the marquee companies, like Merrill Lynch, Bank of America ( BAC ), Bear Stearns and
How did top women execs fare in the crunch?
So how did top women executives end up, now that the worst of the credit crunch seems to have passed. Well, Minyanville offers a cheat sheet .
Zoe Cruz wants back in the game, as a hedge fund pro. Sallie Krawcheck is back in charge of a retail operation, this time at Bank of America Mer
Cruz starts a hedge fund
She was once considered the most powerful woman on Wall Street, and now she's a...hedge fund manager? That's right. Zoe Cruz has started a fund. After spending her entire career at Morgan Stanley ( MS ), until she was fired by her mentor, she has decided to start up Voras Capital Management.
The most powerful women on Wall Street
The reign of Heidi Miller continues. For the third year in a row, she has graced the top of American Banker 's list of the most powerful women in banking. It's been a tough year for women, however. Nearly 20 percent of senior women executives said they'd lost their jobs in the past two years, c
Zoe Cruz to start a hedge fund?
You have to feel for the likes of Zoe Cruz, Erin Callan and Sallie Krawcheck. Each one has held the mythic title--ever so briefly--of the most powerful woman on Wall Street. And in the recent credit crunch, each one left her bank under a cloud.
Callan has resurfaced at Credit Suisse, and we ca
Krawcheck to leave Citi
You could have guessed this was coming. Once the mythic "most powerful woman on Wall Street," Sallie Krawcheck, the head of Citi's wealth management unit, has taken some lumps as of late. Now comes news that she will leave the bank. The New York Times notes the move is part of yet another man
Tough road for Wall Street women at the top
After Sallie Krawcheck fell off the CEO track at Citigroup and Zoe "the" Cruz "missile" was ousted at Morgan Stanley, people were wondering who would wear the cursed mantle of 'woman most likely to run a big bank someday.' Since last December, when Erin Callan was promoted to CFO at Lehman Brother
