‘Bully Market’ depicts Goldman Sachs lacking in culture vigilance
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Aly McDevitt2023-06-08T12:45:00
“You don’t have to choose between character and intelligence when it comes to employees. You can have both.”
Wall Street insider Jamie Fiore Higgins leaves this parting message to her former employer in the final pages of “Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs.”
In her near 300-page memoir, Higgins chronicles her meteoric rise at the most prestigious investment bank in the world. Her account is riveting—and not just because she offers an exclusive peek into the so-called black box of Wall Street.
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