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Given the nature of Nicole Arnaboldi's new role at Credit Suisse, taking a circumspect view has never been more important.

Stacy Bash-Polley, partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, is known as a good listener who asks people what's on their minds.

The pivotal opportunity of Barbara Byrne's career was one she almost didn't take.

When adopting a role model almost 30 years ago, Candace Browning aimed high: She became — and remains — a big fan of Margaret Thatcher.

Had she not received some good advice early in her career, Catherine Smith might not be the head of ING U.S. Retirement Services.

Carla Harris loves to mentor. So much so that she created a program at Morgan Stanley to provide support and advice to its asset managers around the globe.

Jane Thompson has a pretty simple mantra: Focus on your strengths and leave your weaknesses at home.

Under Kathleen Murphy, who heads Fidelity Investments' personal investing unit, it stepped up efforts to call customers to offer support.

Despite all she has to do, Charlotte McLaughlin still makes a priority of cultivating opportunities for minority employees.

Looking back, Diane Schumaker-Krieg says her career was driven more by fear than anything else.

Isabelle Ealet has credentials, but she puts such accomplishments into context amid Goldman Sachs' roster of high-achievers.

Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat is a survivor, professionally and personally, and over the past 25 years has become a powerful adviser on Wall Street.

Liz Ann Sonders, one of the top investment strategists in the country, is using her skills and influence to grow the charity that is nearest to her heart.

As group executive for international business at Visa, Elizabeth Buse tackles the challenge of growing debit in the emerging markets she oversees.

Susan Ehrlich, the president os Sears Financial Services, has a habit of putting new twists on old consumer-finance concepts.

Dominique Senequier has been building a private-equity empire in Paris for over a decade as CEO of AXA Private Equity, and Americans are finally taking notice.

Margaret Keane, who heads GE Capital's retail consumer finance arm, has worked to ensure good communication with customers to keep them on board.

Carla Brooks is often the only woman in the room. But she considers it her responsibility to help more women break into the male-dominated financial industry.

After Martina Hund-Mejean was hired in 2007, one of her many initiatives at MasterCard included starting up a job rotation program among the 700 people in her department.

Balancing risk and reward is what Suzanne Shank does in her business all the time. So when the financial crisis heightened both sides of that equation considerably, Shank didn't flinch.