24 April 2008
Investment Banking and Jonathan Knee on Sales
Posted at 4/24/2008 7:00:00 AM
I am sure you may have the brilliant suggestions of investment banking. Maybe you can help me, give me some advice and some new ideas. Now I am completely throw myself into this one.
It is something always coming out on top.
In Must I Bank? on today's WSJ Opinion page (I'm not sure how long that link will remain outside their paywall), Jonathan Knee of Evercore Partners and Columbia business school astutely narrows down the career options faced by MBAs (and by extension to most business professionals) to three primary paths: Sales, Analysis and Operations: Like all service professions, investment banking is fundamentally a sales job. Individuals who feed on human interaction, and have natural empathy (sales is .. read the rest part.
When we discover, as most of us do, how little our precious possessions will fetch in the marketplace we are inclined to be disillusioned, event to feel that we are being updated. Read the rest of this entry »
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