Contributed by Rebecca Ang
Oh my God, that girl from accounting is walking straight towards me. Oh, what is her name? Is she the one on my team or is it the other brunette with the bangs? Why do they both have bangs?
Am I supposed to say hello? Look past her? Look at the floor? […]
‘Analysts and Associates’ Category
May 30th, 2008, 1:32 pm
Confessions of an Office Newbie
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May 19th, 2008, 7:36 am
WSJ Posts Tips from the Corner Office
In the past couple of weeks, the Wall Street Journal Law blog has run a series of articles filled with helpful tips for law firm associates called View from the Corner Office. This four part series includes a variety of gems and a couple of clunkers, as far as advice goes. Here, we save you […]
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April 21st, 2008, 7:25 am
In Her Shoes: Female Attorneys on Golf and Stilettos
Advice to a new lawyer about golf, shoes and corporate culture. Inspired by the ferocious debate about Hillary Clinton, post-feminism, sexism, and stilettos.
Contributed by Jacqueline Church
“Golf. That’s all they talk about at my firm - Golf!”
She wrinkled her nose as if you’d just put something smelly under it.
An accomplished, smart, young associate at a large […]
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April 9th, 2008, 1:08 pm
The Hillary Spillover Effect in the Workplace
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative article about how Senator Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House has unleashed a surge of animosity towards high powered women in America, which may be reverberating throughout the workplace.
The article, “At the Barricades in the Gender Wars,” by Jonathan Kaufman and Carol Hymowitz, revealed some […]
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The first time you are made redundant is the worst. Sort of like losing your virginity, your expectations of the event bear very little relation to the experience. When it does happen, the reality can be both comic and tragic at the same time. But it is nearly always hard to cope with when it […]
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The best piece of advice I ever received on developing my own career came from one of my law school professors, Lani Guinier. In my third year of law school, I took her capstone course on Practicing Public Interest Law. However, by that point, it had become apparent to me that, due in part to […]
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During the summer of 2005, I traveled around Vietnam with my friend Mary. We started off in Old Saigon and worked our way along the coast, via beach resorts, to the northern city of Hanoi. We had plans to travel from Hanoi to Sapa, a small village on the border between Vietnam and China. Our […]
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The older generation of traders wouldn’t even recognize the U.S. markets anymore. The past decade has brought so many changes to the trading landscape that even today’s traders need help navigating the new territory. Technology has reduced the number of floor traders because of its ability to speed up an order as well as make […]
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January 8th, 2008, 7:29 am
Harvard Business School Profiles: Lina’s Private to Public Transition
Contributed by Lauren Davis
Lina is a bit of an anomaly among first year MBA students at Harvard Business School (HBS).
Attending Harvard on an academic fellowship, Lina already has a summer position lined up with a prestigious investment bank. So, while her classmates are scurrying to presentations and networking events for summer employment, she is […]
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December 17th, 2007, 7:17 am
Harvard Business School Profiles: Hannah and the Importance of Mentors
Contributed by Lauren Davis
Last summer, at one New York investment bank, a male executive dropped into a luncheon for women employees and asked their advice about a problem. He explained that didn’t really understand what motivated female investment bankers, because they “seemed to want different things” than their male counterparts.
While this comment was met with […]
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December 12th, 2007, 7:00 am
How to Improve Your Odds of Getting a Quant Job: Tips from an Expert
by Erin Abrams
Several recent Glass Hammer posts have focused on finance jobs in quantitative analysis, and how to help women break into this mostly male-dominated field. For a background, take a look at “Why Do Girls Hate Algorithms?” and “Breaking the “Quant Jock” Stereotype.” To continue this series, I interviewed a friend of mine, “Mr. B,” who […]
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Women, let’s rock the boat in Quantitative Analytics. Mostly known as a field for “Quant Jocks,” this financial sector is yearning for female professionals. In capital markets, where women have been traditionally underrepresented, this is one career where we have been dealt the upper hand.
Quantitative Analytics, or “quant” to those in the know, is defined […]
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With the Women on Wall Street (WOWS) conference still fresh in my head, I started thinking about the professional metamorphosis I have made in the past year. One marker of this change is a Meet the Press event that a respectable Chicago newspaper coordinates annually. Last year I walked in wearing a suit […]
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The New York Times ran a thought-provoking article this week called “Hedge Funds and Private Equity Alter Career Calculus,” by Louise Story. The article challenged the conventional wisdom that getting an M.B.A. puts young Wall Streeters on the fast track to top finance jobs. Instead, Ms. Story explains that many of today’s top […]
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Are men really from Mars? Women from Venus? You’d think so from recent research on why we take jobs in the financial arena in the first place. (Hands up those of you who do it for love? No? The biggest paycheck? Yep, I thought so. You’ll be the boys, then).
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