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Ida Valentine: Investment Banker, Inspirational Speaker, HBS 2021 [Episode 311]

Podcast interview with Ida Valentine

[powerpress] Interview with Ida Valentine, Associate at Barclays Investment Bank and Member of the HBS MBA Class of 2021 [Show Summary] Our guest today is Ida Valentine. She earned her BA from UNC-Chapel Hill IN 2014, majoring in business administration and minoring in Spanish for the Professions. She joined Barclays Investment Bank upon graduation and …

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Former Investment Bankers, Current Admissions Experts [Episode 227]

Former Investment Bankers Current Admissions Experts

About a year ago I received an email from someone interested in working for Accepted. She had admissions office experience, an MBA from a top business school, and investment banking experience on Wall Street and in Hong Kong. About a week later, I received another email from another potential consultant who attended a different top …

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J.P. Morgan Tells Investment Bankers to Relax

Work life balance

According to a Wall Street Journal article, J.P. Morgan is making new efforts to improve the work-life balance and make junior staff members, as well as more senior ones, feel more appreciated. Pencils Down As of last Thursday, the bank will officially be encouraging its employers (“everyone from analysts to managing directors”) to take weekends …

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B-Schools That Rank for Landing Jobs in Investment Banking

schools that hire

When looking to fill investment banking positions, top firms tend to direct their searches towards cream of the crop universities. Here are the top b-schools you should be looking at to give yourself the best chance of getting hired after graduation, according to the latest eFinancialCareers findings. * For a complete list of the top …

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Indian School of Business: Thoughts After My Visit to Hyderabad

Teeming, packed, noisy streets connecting the serene, sprawling, park-like campuses of Infosys and the Indian School of Business. Slum hovels just yards/meters away from beautiful apartment buildings. These are a few of the images from the busy three days I, and roughly 16 other MBA admissions consultants, spent in Hyderabad, India as guests of the …

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