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What happens when you take Wall Street and cross it with Williamsburg? Probably something along the lines of GendeX, a fund for Gen X hipsters, brought to you from Thrasher Funds. “Cause making money never goes out of style”… (word) More

Ask BBallers: 29 … Chance in Hell?

By BankersBall on Nov 6, 2007 in Cube Life, Exit Strategy, Job Hunting, M.B.A.: means business, a**hole | comments(32)

Is 29 too old to start a career in banking? A Columbia undergrad ~~MBA~~ wonders what it takes.

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When Money Isn’t Enough

By BankersBall on Oct 28, 2007 in Cube Life, Entrepreneurs, Exit Strategy, Famous Bankers | comments(0)

What would you do if you had hundreds of millions in the bank? Go back to work is probably not on the top of the list, but for a certain group of dot-com types, it’s more about staying relevant than staying rich. More

The Facebook Gold Rush

By BankersBall on Oct 11, 2007 in Entrepreneurs, Exit Strategy, Venture Capital | comments(0)

Tis on. VCs are hot and bothered about Facebook to the extent that there’s now a “Facebook-only V.C.”, reports the Times. More

“Tahoe Gal”: Another Stanford GSB Snafu?

By BankersBall on Oct 2, 2007 in Emails & Diversions, Exit Strategy, M.B.A.: means business, a**hole | comments(2)

You might remember that email describing a Stanford GSB party-gone-wild that an anon tipster forwarded to us. Somehow, someway, we have gotten our hands on another email concerning what appears to be another snafu at the B-school. More

Superstars Just Say “No” to MBAs

By BankersBall on Sep 16, 2007 in Exit Strategy, M.B.A.: means business, a**hole | comments(1)

Suddenly, that trend about Harvard providing a sort of early-admission program into B-school doesn’t look so stupid anymore. More

Harvard: You Want an MBA with that BA?

By BankersBall on Sep 13, 2007 in Exit Strategy, M.B.A.: means business, a**hole | comments(3)

It looks like the criteria for getting a top-notch MBA has gone down.

The WSJ reports that Harvard is the latest B-school to adopt a program called “2+2″ which allows undergrads to win a spot in the MBA program when they’re still sucking their thumbs in junior year. Up to 90 students, or 10% of the future class of 2013 of HBS, will be accepted from these ranks.
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MBAs Who Don’t Necessarily Want to Make Money

By BankersBall on Sep 3, 2007 in Exit Strategy, M.B.A.: means business, a**hole | comments(0)

Hey, MBAs aren’t just in it for the dough and the security. Sometimes they don’t know why they’re in it, actually, or come to think of it, what it is they’re in.

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Business School Rankings 2007

By BankersBall on May 28, 2007 in M.B.A.: means business, a**hole, Rankings | comments(13)

We’ve been getting a number of “corrections” on our old B-school rankings, so I guess it’s time to compile and publish this year’s instead of forcing everyone to look at the old lists. Keep in mind that the WSJ, BusinessWeek and the Economist seem to come out with their rankings in the fall, so they were left blank. This year we have added the FT.

Ties have been indicated with the rank in parentheses. Also, the BankersBall made-up ranking has also been left off for now … waiting to see how the rest of the pubs stack up.

2007 MBA Rankings
Ranking	Economist	BW	WSJ	U.S. News (2008 Rankings)	FT
1	…	…	Dartmouth	Harvard	Wharton
2	…	…	Berkeley	Stanford	Columbia
3	…	…	Columbia	Wharton	(3) Harvard
4	…	…	MIT	MIT - Sloan	(3) Stanford
5	…	…	Carnegie Mellon	(5) Kellogg	London Business School
6	…	…	UNC Chapel Hill	(5) U of Chicago	U of Chicago
7	…	…	U Mich	Tuck	Insead
8	…	…	Yale	Haas	NYU
9	…	…	U of Chicago	Columbia	Tuck
10	…	…	U of Virginia	NYU	Yale
Source: Magazine websites.

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