Cornerstone vs. Morgan Stanley Public Finance

Hi everyone! I just got offers from both Cornerstone Research (NYC) and Morgan Stanley Public Finance (SF). What do you think would be the better offer to take?

I am interested in both the kind of work they do, so I'm really unsure which one to go with.

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That would highly depend on what you want to do in the long term, given that what they do is so vastly different from each other.

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