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BULLY MARKET

Jamie Fiore Higgins

My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs

A rare, riveting insider's account on Wall Street - an updated Liar's Poker - where greed coupled with misogyny and discrimination enforces a culture of exclusion in the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs.
Bully Market is a rare, riveting insider's account on Wall Street - an updated Liar's Poker - where greed coupled with misogyny and discrimination enforces a culture of exclusion in the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs. Jamie Fiore Higgins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. One of just 8 percent of Goldman employees to earn the managing director title, she was the highest-ranking woman in her department. An active member of the Women's Network Committee, Fiore Higgins spent her workdays running the trainee and internship programs, recruiting, and managing top equity clients and $96 billion in stock.
Bully Market is one of the first accounts ever inside Goldman Sachs, as most employees are required to sign NDAs upon their departure. Fiore Higgins lost out on part of her compensation package because she declined to sign an NDA, leaving her free to speak openly and honestly about her time at Goldman and break the silence surrounding the company. She reveals how this elite, secretive institution operates, including that despite what press releases might say, sexism and racism is rampant in the company.

The driving force of this story is Fiore Higgins' desire not to lose herself in a system that is intent on stamping out any trace of independence. She details the struggles that her job at Goldman had on her marriage, the many events she missed in her children's lives, and the financial gap between her and the rest of her family. This is a coming-of-age story under immense pressure, and Fiore Higgins shows how she remained clear-eyed and focused despite it all.

Jamie Fiore Higgins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. One of just 8 percent of Goldman employees to earn the managing director title, she was the highest-ranking woman in her department. An active member of the Women's Network Committee, Fiore Higgins spent her workdays running the trainee and internship programs, recruiting, and managing top equity clients and $96 billion in stock. Living in New Jersey with her husband and four children, she is a trained coach, working with teens to hone in on their leadership skills, high school, and college graduates as they begin careers, professionals as they navigate the workforce, and those in midlife looking to reinvent themselves. She is also a contributor for Medium and Thrive Global.
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Published 2022-08-30 by Simon & Schuster

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In her debut memoir, Fiore Higgins mounts a scathing critique of the sexist, racist, homophobic, and elitist culture pervading Goldman Sachs... A disturbing portrait of power and greed. Read more...

Bully Market exposes the #MeToo movement's unfinished work on Wall Street and should be required reading in the Goldman Sachs C-Suite. Working women will see themselves in Jamie Fiore Higgins' seering story, cheering on the daughter of immigrants and mother of four as she overcomes misogyny and discrimination to become a Managing Director at the storied firm. From assault to punishing women for becoming mothers, Bully Market shines a bright light on Goldman's broken culture and all of corporate America's failure to keep its promises to women - and challenges business leaders to heed Higgins' call for transformative change and equality.

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Fiore Higgins is spilling the beans on what she saw and heard and experienced at Goldman Sachs. The book title says it all: Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs. But the book is so much more than the title suggests. Fiore Higgins had a front row seat to one of the most unprecedented time spans in Wall Street history. In fact, the 500-year financial storm was happening again and again during her years at Goldman... Read more...

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Jamie Fiore Higgins's Bully Market is a riveting and powerful story of one woman's experience in finance, as she climbs the corporate ladder amidst harassment and discrimination. You might argue that this book isn't even about Goldman Sachs, but about the behaviors and patterns we're willing to accept across all of corporate America.

Jamie Fiore Higgins's entrancing firsthand account of her time as a high-up managing director at Goldman Sachs is a breath of fresh air - not for the stories of abuse and discrimination, which are maddening - but for the overdue chance to finally bring the truth to light. With grace and precision, she shows the hypocrisy of finance and how it and other industries can, and must, change for the next generation.

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In this engrossing book, Fiore Higgins takes us on her turbulent journey from a working class immigrant family to an unprincipled upper echelon of Wall Street. Her personal story exposes the sickening pull of money in a society devoid of a safety net and wired for profit maximization, and the misogynistic, racist, and homophobic work environment it fuels. Bully Market is an urgent call to rectify economic systems that create extreme inequality and workplace cultures that talk a good game but remain destructive for anyone who does not 'fit the mold'.

Bully Market is essential to understanding the power dynamics at play in one of the most influential and powerful industries in the world. It's shocking, saddening, and infuriating by turn, but empowering in the way that it imagines what the future of the workplace can look like.

Today's ranking on Amazon (Aug. 31, 2022): #4 in Sociology Books on Abuse #5 in Women & Business (Books) #20 in Business Professional's Biographies

Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs by Jamie Fiore Higgins '98 is a firsthand account of the author's experience as a managing director at the Wall Street giant. Higgins walked away from an 18-year career at Goldman Sachs in 2016. As a newcomer to Wall Street, Higgins says, she "quickly got caught up in the lavish world of money and excess, taking me further away from the career I had originally envisioned for myself." When she finally found the courage to leave, she decided to write about her experiences, to spark discussion about gender and racial equality in the workplace, and create change. "As the #metoo movement unfolded before my eyes," she says, "the seeds for Bully Market were planted." Read more...

One of America's leading financial institutions is rife with misogyny, homophobia, and racism, according to this scintillating exposé... A persuasive warning that Wall Street still has a long way to go to become a more human and equitable workplace. Read more...

On Wall Street, it's unusual to make it into the club of Goldman managing directors, as [Jamie Fiore Higgins] did in 2012, and almost unheard of to tell the world what goes on there. The book will make Fiore Higgins one of the most senior people to do it.

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