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What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'
Sallie Krawcheck
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Sallie Krawcheck
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 28
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