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Photograph by Walter SmithNicole ParentThose with a tendency to indolence need not apply:
36-year-old Nicole Parent, who is responsible for equity research coverage of the electrical equipment and industrial conglomerates for Credit Suisse, works approximately 14 hours a day. When Parent travels abroad, which is often, she avoids alcohol, fits in a daily workout, and sleeps five hours a night. “I usually only need four or five,” she says. “When she was a child,” says Stefano Natella, global head of equity research at Credit Suisse, “she would have been one of those children who can’t stop asking questions. And then when you put them to sleep, they fall asleep instantaneously, exhausted.”
Her co-workers generally assume that Parent, who was recently ranked by Forbes first among stock pickers in her sector, attended business school. But she found that her Harvard College degree in economics afforded her plenty of credibility: Her first job out of college was working with the chief economist of the New York Stock Exchange. “A person with an average mind and great work ethic always wins out over someone who is brilliant but lazy,” Parent says.
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