Alice Handy's Shoes and Hair

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/05/alice-handy-shoes-and-hair

Bloomberg News has a profile of Alice Handy, whose firm, Investure LLC, manages money for Smith, Barnard, Trinity, and Middlebury Colleges, as well as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and a few other non-profits. The article includes this sentence: "A trim woman who wears her hair short, she hits the road in sensible shoes and understated jewelry." When was the last time you saw a Bloomberg profile of a male money manager that mentioned his shoes or his hair? If her footwear or hair were extraordinary they might be worth mentioning, but otherwise, what's the justification?

by Ira Stoll  |  May 27, 2011 at 6:50 am Related Topics:  Education, Non-Profits, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list