MixedThe New York Times Book Review\"...filled with intriguing anecdotes ... It’s no wonder that women, and members of other underrepresented groups, have been clamoring to get in and be treated equitably. But these decades of struggle, exhaustively recounted in Bren’s book, have led to surprisingly meager progress. As for why and what this all means, Bren has frustratingly little to say. Are certain kinds of people better suited to financial speculation? Does the financial industry’s homogeneity have anything to do with the cycle of bubbles, crashes and financial crises that have become a way of life? She-Wolves sidesteps these deeper questions. Bren’s only goal seems to be to remind us of a familiar fact: \'Wall Street was built for men, and fundamentally, it remains an old boys’ club.\'\
Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... deeply reported ... the authors of When McKinsey Comes to Town are not subtle about their views. The portrait this book creates is one of a company chasing profits, spreading the gospel of downsizing and offshoring, its leaders virtually unmoored from any guiding principles or moral code. If there is a pro-McKinsey case to be made — one imagines it would be based on arguments about promoting \'efficiency\' in the economy — it won’t be found here ... Yet laying out McKinsey’s most morally compromised assignments, like a series of damning Harvard Business School case studies, creates a clear and devastating picture of the management philosophy that helped drive the decline of a stable American middle class over the last 50 years.
Lauren Etter
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... deeply reported and illuminating ... This is not a short book, nor an easy read; so many characters, details and side-trips are packed into its over 400 pages that it overwhelms at times. Still, there is a rich narrative that rewards patience. The story of Juul’s rise and fall teaches us something about greed, capitalism, policy failure and a particular cycle in American business that seems destined to repeat itself.
Susan Fowler
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... sharp and engrossing ... Fowler’s revelations came eight months before The New York Times and The New Yorker published explosive allegations about Harvey Weinstein’s serial abuse of women, and helped catalyze the #MeToo movement. What is less well known is the remarkable back story that came before Fowler found herself at the center of these newsworthy events ... Fowler does not provide a satisfactory explanation as to why she was unable to attend the local high school—one of several moments in her story when infuriating or baffling things happen to her that seem to be presented in an oversimplified or one-sided manner, which undermines the strength of her narrative ... Whistleblower is a powerful illustration of the obstacles our society continues to throw up in the paths of ambitious young women, and the ways that institutions still protect and enable badly behaving men.
