Glen Campbell 1936 – 2017 Country singer, songwriter, session musician, actor, and television host Glen Campbell, best known for his 1975 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy,” died in Nashville, Tennessee in August following a six-year battle with Alzheimer’s. He was 81. Campbell sold over 45 million records in his six-decade career, outselling even The Beatles at the height of his … [Read more...] about Those We Lost
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Last Word: Lessons on Leadership
General Martin Dempsey on what he learned from the writings of W.B. Yeats. I first became interested in the poetry of William Butler Yeats in graduate school. By that time I had accumulated enough life experience to help make sense of this prolific poet who wrote of folklore, history, romance, heroism, and mysticism in the years between his first published book of verse in … [Read more...] about Last Word: Lessons on Leadership
Tim Ryan: A Champion for Diversity in the Workplace
PwC’s U.S. chairman has permanently opened the door to frank and honest dialogue about difference in the workplace at his firm and recruited the country’s top CEOs to an effort to improve corporate diversity, inclusion, and communication nationwide. Tim Ryan, the senior partner and U.S. chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, is the youngest executive of the Big Four auditing … [Read more...] about Tim Ryan: A Champion for Diversity in the Workplace
The 20th Annual Irish America Wall Street 50 Awards
The 2017 Irish America Wall Street 50 is published. View the honorees here. In 1998, we introduced the inaugural Wall Street 50 with the story of John J. Kiernan, the son of Irish emigrants who “would row from ship to ship in New York Harbor gathering financial information from overseas” for his 1860s Wall Street Financial News Service. The man had pluck and a good eye for … [Read more...] about The 20th Annual Irish America Wall Street 50 Awards
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"If you really want to help society, you have to figure out a way to share all the lessons that you’ve learned."
– Tim Ryan
Congratulations to all our honorees on this the 20th anniversary of our Wall Street 50.
Some things have changed in the 20 years since we began to explore the relationship between the Irish and our steady ascent in the financial sector. For example, our … [Read more...] about First Word:
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