The July/August cover story of the Atlantic about women's choice of family and career coincided with the July announcement that Marissa Mayer is the new president and CEO of Yahoo!. All hell broke loose when more details of Mayer's professional and personal life became known. Not only is Mayer young, (at 37, she is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company) and female (and only 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women), but she is also pregnant.
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Supporting The Aurora Shooting Victims Many friends of Allonhill, including our clients from around the country, remote workers and past employees, have sent messages asking if we are okay.
We are okay! Thank you all, so much, for your concern for us and our community. Thankfully, none of our employees were directly impacted by the nightmare of senseless killings on Friday at an Aurora movie theatre. But we are all affected, and deeply, deeply saddened, by this event.
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Resumes Should Tell it All I was at the University of Denver’s campus last week, meeting with students. I talked about my career path and its many turns. Looking back, the turns that seemed the most discouraging were always the ones that took me the farthest and turned out the best. I took a lot of chances with many of my career decisions, and I also ended up taking a few jobs because I had to.
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The Borrower's "Sophie's Choice" A great irony of the subprime era was that tax and insurance payments were escrowed for borrowers with money in the bank and proven credit, yet those who lived paycheck-to-paycheck did not have to include T&I; in their mortgage payments.
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Fifty Sets of Foreclosure Rules The mortgage industry has been absorbed in pulling itself back onto its feet for close to four years now. The work that has taken place to sort out what went wrong, to establish blame, and to make restitution where it could be made, is staggering. As a nation and as an industry, it’s clear we can see a light at the end of the tunnel. Historical loan reviews, whether for private investor suits or at the demand of public authorities, are largely defined, and many or most are underway, with some near completion. The economy is showing signs of life.…
