Any use of "expert networks", firms which set up meetings between hedgies and staff working at companies, are frowned upon, if not banned outright.But policing ambitious, bonus-fuelled traders can be tough.
Harding has donated the bonus to the charity Ambitious about Autism in recognition of the problems caused by the cyber-attack.
But an American divorce-insurance company, SafeGuard, is planning a more ambitious product that will pay a big bonus to those who stay married for 25 years.
So ambitious young consultants can expect to receive huge bonuses right away, rather than waiting for a decade.
In an effort to compete again for federal education money that it recently failed to win, New Jersey unveiled an ambitious plan on Friday to award state-financed merit bonuses to teachers and schools based on the performance of their students.
"Operational improvement" in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets.
The federal takeover of the banks will mean lower salaries and bonuses, which will make such places less attractive to ambitious young people.
Factory's ambitious "Mary Hartman" set contains all 325 episodes on 38 DVDs, along with featurettes and 10 bonus episodes of Lear's brilliant spinoff "Fernwood 2 Night," a talk-show parody.
Executives who fail to demonstrate that they have actively worked to hit the ambitious diversity targets which Channel 4 has set itself will find the "variable pay" - or bonus – element of their salaries cut.
In the United States, success stands as a beacon to the ambitious of what can be attained -- an outlook that appears to justify the kind of one-time windfall bonuses that bloat some American executive pay deals.
