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...more students than usual are in a holding pattern, even after successful internships. Firms want to see how the economy looks at year's end before committing to a new class of recruits. "There's likely to be more 'as-needed' hiring," says Regina Resnick, Assistant Dean at the Columbia Business School, where about half of the graduating class typically pursues employment in financial services, whether in venture capital, private equity, investment banking or something related...
Postscript: I'm witnessing the MBA scene firsthand this year as a second-year MBA fellowship student at the Columbia Business School. Even as my classmates relish their classes and the study-hard, play-hard nature of school, some sound concerned when the subject turns to their job hunt. At the Harvard Business School, a second-year MBA candidate recently posted a blog entry poking fun at the euphemisms business school students use to explain why one internship or another hasn't yielded a full-time offer. What they say is "There wasn't a cultural fit," or "I wouldn...
...Pelosi has been happy to let Travis be Travis. She let him carry a bill to protect gun ownership in the District of Columbia as well as an amendment to restrict the hiring of illegal immigrants. "She's never tried to arm-twist me, and I appreciate that," Childers says. "She told me when I was sworn in, You represent north Mississippi, and you answer to nobody else...
...Obama, who received his undergraduate degree from Columbia, echoed McCain’s sentiments...
...recognize that there are students here who have differences in terms of military policy,” Obama said at the Columbia forum. “But the notion that young people here at Columbia or anywhere, in any university, aren’t offered the choice, the option of participating in military service, I think is a mistake...