Brian DeChesare
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”
Brian DeChesare
JANUARY 22, 2025
People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. Traditionally, banks gave away equity research reports for free to incentivize large clients to trade with the bank.
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Brian DeChesare
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
With investment banking internship recruiting starting earlier and earlier, you also need to win pre-banking internships earlier. People debate the best options: Search fund internships , private equity internships , boutique bank internships, real estate internships, and even wealth management internships have their pros and cons.
Brian DeChesare
APRIL 20, 2022
A long time ago, it didn’t matter that much if you applied for summer internships at the large banks but failed to win a single offer. When someone says they “didn’t get any internship offers,” typically they mean: They were recruiting for investment banking internships after their 3 rd year of university or their 1 st year of an MBA program.
Mckinsey and Company
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Macroeconomic, technological, regulatory, market structure, and product changes mean corporate and investment banks must take new approaches to tackling the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Harvard Corporate Governance
JUNE 29, 2022
Our Working Group is composed of leading academics, former Commission officials, and market participants who focus on the law and economics of human capital management: Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; Paul Brest, Former Dean and Professor Emeritus at Stanford Law School; John Coates IV, John F.
Musings on Markets
DECEMBER 11, 2024
I taught six different classes ranging from a corporate finance class to undergraduates to a central banking for executive MBAs, and while I spent almost all of my time struggling to stay ahead of my students, with the material, it set me on a pathway to being a generalist.
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