is investment banking good enough for top MBAs?

monydad
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:23:31 +0000

"I really can’t blame Monydad because because his vision of today’s society is what it was back in the 80’s and early 90’s. "

I very much appreciate that you are not blaming me . For whatever it is you would apparently like to otherwise blame me for were my mental faculties not so frozen in time.

However, for the record, I did not intend to express my vision of today’s society on this board.

I expressed some observations limited completely to MBA admissions and finance back in the 80s-90s, labeled them as such, and said that I did not know what was currently going on. I.e. I made virtually no comment on todays’ MBA finance situation. Let alone any “vision of today’s society”.

Then I said that based on the posts on this very board it appeared to me (appeared, not a claim that this was fact) that finance jobs were hotter than ever. The posts I am referring to were made over the last two years. This board did not exist in the 80s and 90s.

This is supposed to be a general MBA board, yet a vastly disproportionate number of posts on this board concern investment banking positions. What else could I conclude? How many posts about careers in Marketing have you read here?

Talking is one thing, the facts are something else. Somebody please list the percentage of generalist MBAs from the top programs who are entering finance jobs. Then we can all pass judgement on how germane my observations of the past situation, clearly identified as such, is to today’s factual (as opposed to oratory) situation. IF Epoch_Dreams is correct, then factually a very small percentage of graduates of these programs, in the current “new world order”, will currently be shuffling off to I-Bank jobs.

I do have a “vision” as to how this factual, non-oratory, examination would turn out. But as I do not, and did not claim to, have facts I will keep this and other visions to myself.