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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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Anne M. Mulcahy
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Rockville Centre
New York
Innocent
Whenever
Tsunami
Takes
Earthquake
Lives
Haiti
Else
Earthquakes
Littles
Talks
Little
Shocked
World
Thousands

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We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.
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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
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Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
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