This may seem like a really dumb question but like I genuinely do not have any knowledge on the PE recruiting pipeline other than from Investment Banking.
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Yes but almost exclusively people with prior PE experience and there are very few seats. OfficeHours a while ago showed stats on how many Harvard people came from PE and ended up in PE at HBS and there were only a handful without prior PE experience
Do many MBA associates in IB get recruited to PE?
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