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This is standard corporate CYA behavior. I think this quote from Keynes sums it up best: >"A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it,
by crdoconnor 12y ago
This is standard corporate CYA behavior.
I think this quote from Keynes sums it up best:
>"A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men."
The Ivy league is a conventional and orthodox disaster. Nobody can blame you for hiring them, their credentials were impeccable!
That previously unemployed guy, on the other hand...
- Ollinson 12y agoI wonder if there are actual educational benefits to attending an ivy league school beyond the commonly mentioned networking. Given a competent A student is there knowledge you will gain from the finance department at say Harvard that you wouldn't see at state university? A better example might be what's the measurable difference between an engineering degree at a low tier school versus MIT?
- Thriptic 12y agoI got my bachelors in biochemistry at a mid tier school with a bad science program and am now at MIT for my PhD. The difference in quality of instruction at the undergrad level, access to undergrad research opportunities / internships, and breadth of course availability is immense.