Entries by The Glass Hammer

How To Get an Amazing Year-End Bonus

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 […]

Passions: Sailing the High Seas

The idea of taking to the high seas never really occurred to me before. I’m not the kind of person who likes being cold and wet, for one. Sailing just didn’t really push my ‘I want to try that’ button. I had a head filled with misconceptions about what it was really like, with no […]

Is Ageism a Ticking Time Bomb for Women?

Contributed by Rebecca Chong of Rooks Riders Solicitors Accountants, bankers and analysts are increasingly finding that they have more in common with celebrities than they ever realized or wanted. It is no secret that Tinseltown and the media have been unkind to women who dare to age. For Hollywood, this led to some of the […]

2007: The Year in Bonuses – Winners and Losers

Contributed by Susie Potier Come December, the whispers on Wall Street are not about who is doing what for New Year’s Eve or where to go on the perfect winter beach getaway. Let’s not kid ourselves. The talk on the Street is all about bonuses. Who’s getting how much, and more importantly, who’s not getting […]

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 […]

What Is Happening to Women on Wall Street?

As yesterday’s Glass Hammer posting by Zoe-Cruz-not-the-Zoe-Cruz noted, these are tough times for women on Wall Street. Indeed, as a recent posting on the New York Times Dealbook website noted, Zoe Cruz’s forced transition into early retirement from her job heading up trading and risk operations at Morgan Stanley may have quietly heralded the end […]