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 today…
B-Schools That Rank for Landing Jobs in Investment Banking
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…
Former Investment Bankers, Current Admissions Experts [Episode 227]
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…
The Facts About Financial Services
Finance is the most popular career destination for business school graduates according to GMAC’s recent Prospective Applicant Survey. In fact 37% of all MBA wannabes also “wannabe” in financial service when they graduate. If you are one of those 37% or if you are planning a different route to the concrete canyons of Wall Street…
J.P. Morgan Tells Investment Bankers to Relax
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…
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…
MBA Student Interview – Ben from NYU Stern
Here’s a talk with Ben Loveland who recently graduated from NYU Stern and is now working as an Associate at Credit Suisse in the Global Industrials Group for the Investment Banking Division. Thank you Ben for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us! This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews…
2011 UT McCombs Admissions Director Interview Posted
If you attended our recent conversation with UT McCombs‘s Vicki Duran, Director of MBA Admissions, Jolene Ashcraft, Senior Associate Director, and Jaryn Creasy, a second-year student at UT, then you know what a success it was. You can review the Q&A by reading the whole UT McCombs Q&A transcript, by listening to the full…
MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Finance
This post about Haas and finance is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance, consulting, general…
MBA Admissions: Cornell Johnson and Investment Banking
This post about Cornell Johnson and investment banking is part of a series of interviews of top MBA programs called “MBA Career Goals and the B-Schools that Support Them.” Please subscribe to our blog to ensure that you receive all the interviews exploring the elements at each school that support career goals in finance,…
Current Full-Time Duke Fuqua MBA Student
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at selected MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Here are some excerpts from an interview with a current full-time…
MBA Applicant Blogger Interview: Motown, Ms. HR, and Mads Mom’s Journey
Next up in our series of featured MBA applicant bloggers are Motown, Ms. HR, and Mads Mom from the blog, “Fortune 800: Our Journey to an MBA.” Please enjoy their thoughtful answers and use them to help you make your way through the MBA admissions process. Accepted: First, can you tell us a little…
The Times They Are a’ Changin’
Bob Dylan’s song lyrics capture the meaning behind the statistics Harvard Business School just released in the class profile for its entering class of 2013. It appears Harvard has decided to include fewer finance types in its MBA program, more women and more people from scientific/technical and manufacturing backgrounds. While Harvard provided the profile…
Darden Introduces Concentrations
According to a Darden press release, the UVA business school has formally instituted concentrations within its full-time MBA program. MBA students will choose from the following career or theme tracks: Career Tracks: Asset Management/Sales & Trading Corporate Finance/Investment Banking Entrepreneurship Consumer Marketing Business To Business Marketing Supply Chain Management Theme Tracks: Corporate Innovation Business…
Interview with Peter Johnson London Business School Masters in Finance
During my recent visit to London, I spent the morning at London Business School. I have several posts worth of thoughts and material This is the first in a series of post stemming from my recent visit to London Business School. During my visit I interviewed Peter Johnson, Senior Admissions Manager, Masters in Finance. Although…
NYU Stern’s Isser Gallogly: Finance from an Admissions Perspective
Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?” My question: Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they want an MBA to enter IB, PE or a related field that has been devastated by the economic downturn? Is the…
London’s Zoe McLoughlin: Finance from Admissions Perspective
Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?” My question: Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general how does LBS react to applicants who say that want an MBA to enter IB, PE, or a related field that has been devastated by the economic downturn? Is the reaction, “What planet have you been on?”…
MBA in Finance: Forget It?
In forums, chats, and emails I read a lot of speculation about the wisdom of declaring an interest in pursuing a career in finance after business school. With all the Wall St. carnage, does such a goal doom your application? Has the possibility of a career in investment banking, private equity, or hedge funds disappeared…