Abby Johnson finally breaks through the glass ceiling at Fidelity Investments and now she's busy taking big-time -- if calculated -- risks worthy of her father's legacy
Like father, like daughter? Fidelity CEO Abby Johnson shows all the signs that she's determined to leave her mark on the family's $7.2 trillion financial dynasty
Author Keith Girard November 14, 2018 at 10:06 PM
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Mansler
November 15, 2018 — 6:40 PM
Glass ceiling? Ah, she could have always worked somewhere else and not taken advantage of her father's nepotism?
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brooke southall
November 15, 2018 — 6:48 PM
You may be looking at the glass ceiling half full. :) Sure, it's easy to point to possible nepotism. The other possibility is that she is actually far more qualified than the average CEO who spent a career expending inordinate energies playing the internal politics needed to climb. With less of that burden, Abby may have been able to concentrate on honing her Fidelity-managing craft as it were. People I know on the inside largely give her credit for doing just that.
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FAA
November 16, 2018 — 11:10 PM
Terrific and the agility of privately held companies...good for her/them. They don't have to report quarterly earnings nor developments to anyone so they can take their longer term shots. And they have the $$ to do so. Good stuff