By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Recently, The Glass Hammer revealed our new research on women in technology – we wanted to find out what companies can do to better retain women at the junior and mid-career levels. Many companies are making a robust effort to recruit a high percentage of women at the […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) When it’s time to negotiate a salary or raise, what kind of number do you throw out as a first offer? According to a Columbia Business School study [PDF] published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, it may be better to avoid using round numbers – for […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) According to a recent Yale working paper, when married men and women relocate, men make more money, and women make less. The study is based on an analysis of population data from Denmark, and revealed that couples “chose locations with higher expected wages for the man than the […]
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) “My advice for young female lawyers is to concentrate on doing excellent work that gets noticed by senior practitioners, rather than overly focusing on managing their careers,” said Heidi Levine, Co-Managing Partner of DLA Piper’s New York office. Levine benefited from this strategy as a senior associate, with […]
By Hadley Catalano (Boston) After a successful managerial climb at State Street, a large global financial services company in Boston, Michelle Figueiredo made the most difficult decision of her professional career. She had her first conversation with the company’s human resources department about her true identity. “I spoke for three hours with the woman in […]
Welcome to Pride Week on The Glass Hammer — we’ll be profiling successful LGBT business women all week long! Julie Harris, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, had a master plan when she entered college – or so she thought. “I come from a blue collar family,” said Harris, “and while my parents have always been […]
Contributed by John Keyser Relationships matter. If someone trusts us, respects us, has confidence in us and wants to work with us, that can go a very long way to ensure our success. And we must realize that we must earn and continue to earn that trusting relationship, every day. My experience as an executive […]
Welcome to Pride Week on The Glass Hammer — we’ll be profiling successful LGBT business women all week long! When Chris Crespo was applying for her first job out of college, professional services firms hadn’t yet taken many steps to address diversity challenges. “When I started in the industry, we didn’t talk about diversity and […]
Lanaya Irvin, Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, believes the financial services industry can only serve to benefit by moving toward greater diversity and inclusion. “The glass ceiling is still very much a real thing. The industry continues to be male dominated at senior leadership levels. Sexism exists in some places just as racism […]
Welcome to Pride Week on The Glass Hammer — we’ll be profiling successful LGBT business women all week long! By Michelle Clark (Keene, NH) When you ask Kathy Levinson, Managing Director at Golden Seeds, what her greatest professional accomplishment is, she will modestly talk about the details of her fourteen year career at investment firm […]