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"  Julia Kahr, 31, principal, private equity, The Blackstone Group R\u00E9sum\u00E9: This former consultant and Harvard MBA landed a plum job at the elite Blackstone Group in 2004. Skyrocketing through the ranks to become Blackstone&amp;#039;s youngest female principal in 2008, Julia Kahr is now one of only nine women in the firm&amp;#039;s 114-person global private equity division.  Background check: &amp;quot;My mom is a CPA, and my father founded a credit card company; he tutored me for the calculus AP exam when I was 12. They both shaped my drive for success in business.&amp;quot;  Big break: &amp;quot;As a junior associate at Blackstone, I led a deal for a company called Encore Medical. It turned out to be a great transaction and enabled us to make a subsequent investment in another company, now one of our largest portfolio holdings. Someone at my level rarely had that kind of responsibility.&amp;quot;  Workplace game plan: &amp;quot;I set a goal that within the first 10 minutes of a meeting, I have to say something \u2014 I come prepared with talking points. I&amp;#039;m often the only woman in meetings of 50 to 100 people. Getting into the conversation early establishes me as a player in the decision-making.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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