But Nokia could have difficulties poaching people from Apple and Google, said Jeff Leopold, a managing director at executive-search firm Cook Associates Inc. in Boston, because it doesn't carry the same status in Silicon Valley.
Of the multitude of boxes a person is put in over the course of his or her life--race, nationality, economic status, age--gender is a constant that we carry with us from our first breath.
The markets will understand that a loan to a systemically significant institution will carry less risk than a loan to an institution that does not have this status.