Q&A: Engineering to Portfolio Manager to MBA

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  • Previously with Goldman Sachs as a portfolio manager focused on alternative investment vehicles
  • Graduated with BS in Industrial Engineering
  • MBA
  • Specialties: Fixed income, mutual funds, emerging markets, macro strategies, real estate developments

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Member @CaliforniaMax shares his story, how much he's been paid in his career and the best advice to his younger self. What he did when the first job out of his top MBA disappeared within 3 months and practical career advice on when to take risks and when to take the safer path.

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Hey CaliforniaMax, sorry about the delay, but are any of these useful:

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  • What's the use of going to a top b-school if you can get the same opportunities from a lower tier b-school? (esp Amazon) are generally the more traditional areas for MBA students to target for recruiting, ... You can get the same from M7 and maybe the numbers are a little higher than these T15 schools but, and ... question is why do people stress more on M7 even though no one cares where you got an MBA 2 years out? ...
  • Leaving Deloitte Strategy Consulting After 2 Years- Ask Me Anything (AMA) in September, and that I am forgoing b-school sponsorship. I made the retailer aware of all these ... For me, since I expect to go to business school in a few years anyway, this seemed like a pretty good ... join the corporate strategy group at a retailer. Since this forum was very helpful to me as I was ...
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