Letter of Recommendation - Useful?

I'm just curious because I haven't seen this question brought up before (well I did but there was only one person answering it), but if you can get a letter of recommendation from someone high up in investment banking would that be a useful thing to include when applying to other investment banks?

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I'd wonder why they weren't keeping you if someone high up thought so well of you.

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