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Posts Tagged ‘Wall Street’
Friday, October 31st, 2008
An informative article from the Wall Street Journal Where the Jobs Are For Wall Street Pros By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN As the latest crisis on Wall Street unfolds, recruiters say their phones are ringing off the hook with anxious finance professionals on the line. The sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. and the bankruptcy-court filing [...]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Article An investment banker friend was recently complaining about the havoc and uncertainty at her workplace in these crazy times. I tried to express sympathy. But I found that I just didn’t care. Actually, even worse: I felt like rolling my eyes. And this is a person I like. Recently, I’ve found myself not only [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY PALO ALTO, Calif. — The unsparing tsunami of bad news created by the collapse of storied Wall Street banking firms has made its way 3,000 miles to the palm-studded campus of Stanford University. “Every day, it only seems to get worse,” says Ben Sloop, 29, of Atlanta, one [...]
Tags: Bain & Co., banker, banking firms, business analyst, business school, crisis, dot-com boom, elite schooling, Facebook, financial meltdown, financial mess, Google, greed is good, laid off, Lehman Brothers, MBA candidate, MBA students, McKinsey & Co., Morgan Stanley, New York, online company, rich, Sept. 11, Stanford MBA, Stanford University, troubling times, Wall Street Posted in Life | No Comments »
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