The news on Wall Street has been pretty grim, no doubt about it. Here, in the manner in which we would normally bow our heads for a moment of silence, we recap the avalanche of write-downs and looming layoffs announced by major financial institutions this week.
On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, Citi dropped the bomb […]

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You graduated from law school. Then, you practiced for a few years or pursued a career outside of the law. After you had your first child, you decided to scale back to part time. After the second one, you decided to take a few years off while the kids were small. You planned […]

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For our Voices of Experience series, The Glass Hammer interviewed Dorothy Price Hill and asked her about her experience in private equity and her advice for young women in finance who might be interested in pursuing a similar career path.
Ms. Hill is the Director of Investor Relations and Business Development at a New York-based private […]

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So it may not have been the best year for women in finance, or even the best year for finance professionals in general. Still, for those of you who work at top performing places like Goldman Sachs or hedge funds that shorted subprime loans this year, Santa might still be squeezing down the chimney for […]

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As if the financial industry hasn’t seen enough of a market shake-up in recent months, a new futures exchange is set to launch in early 2008. The exchange, backed by heavy hitters in the capital markets, will serve as a low-cost alternative in the existing futures market. The exchange will start trading […]

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Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine
In the ideal world, you would use January to reflect on goals accomplished and to set the stage for  next year’s performance review and bonus discussion.  However, if it’s January and you haven’t prepared for this year’s bonus talk yet, then you need to focus on last-minute moves:

Find out exactly what bonus decisions have […]

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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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2007 might not have been a good year for the market overall, but there is some good news. This past year, Fortune 500 companies with a female CEO at the helm did better than ever.
A recent story by Del Jones of USA Today, entitled “Female CEOs Make More Gains in 2007,” analyzed financial performance data […]

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Every year, I host a traditional holiday party called the Black and White Soiree. It’s a gathering of about 60 friends in my small vintage apartment. My friends Alanna and Megan help with the cooking because, as my mother would say, I am domestically challenged. I managed to make cookies but I […]

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Some of us woke up on New Year’s Day with a headache from drinking too much champagne the night before. But others woke up with a hangover of a different kind: a financial hangover. For some reasons that might not be immediately apparent to you, despite earning a high salary at your job in finance […]

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It doesn’t get much better than receiving an amazing bonus after you’ve worked hard all year.  However, bonus season can be fraught with anxiety. But it doesn’t have to be that way and in fact, it should not be that way.  Here are some sure fire ways to plan ahead in the New Year ensure […]

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