by Marquis | Nov 26, 2008 | career, internship, professional advice, recruiting, U.S. economic crisis
Hello all, I hope you’re all getting ready to take a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday and do some serious damage to your diets by overeating all weekend long 🙂 I’m always a big fan of Thanksgiving because it is a chance for all of us to gather...
by Marquis | Oct 12, 2008 | career, mba, private equity, Stanford GSB
What’s good, peoples. I hope you’re all having a nice weekend. The email below is from a reader with pre-MBA experience in consulting and private equity who wonders how well Stanford would set him up to return to PE. I’m far from an expert at the...
by Marquis | Aug 14, 2008 | Bschool experience, Education, Joint degree, Non-profit
Hey, everyone. After the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes this weekend, I was seriously thrown for a loop. Now that it’s all settled in, I thought I should get back to addressing entries because my Inbox is getting extra, extra backed up.The email below is...
by Marquis | Aug 2, 2008 | APD recruiting, application process, Bschool admissions, consulting, other blogs, professional advice, recruiting, Technology-related, venture capital
What’s good, everyone. Recently, I’ve had a few emails asking relatively straightforward questions that I’ve been able to crank out pretty quickly. I thought about making separate entries for them, but each would have been so short that it made more...
by Marquis | Apr 6, 2008 | career, consulting, Technology-related, transition, venture capital
What’s good, y’all. I’d like to start this entry by making another request for people to take the time to read through the past entries on here before emailing me with a question. I’ve gotten a lot of emails lately on topics that I wrote...
by Marquis | Dec 2, 2007 | career, consulting, private equity, transition
The email below is from a consultant at a boutique management consulting firm in India who is interested in transitioning to Private Equity in the future. As I may have mentioned on here before, my knowledge on the PE industry is still building, but I’ve tried...
