by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) “This is a street fight. This is war.” That is what TrepCon keynote speaker John Caplan — presently the CEO of “social shopping” web site OpenSky — recalled about the competition in the 1990s between two drink companies: Arizona Iced Tea and Snapple. Back then,…
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) Among the 140 students at this month’s Shift Series social-entrepreneurship conference, which university had the largest contingent? Hint: You attend there. Yes, the Gabelli School of Business was the best-represented school at Shift, with every member of three “generations” of the Compass Fellowship at Fordham…
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) “The university wants you to go out and be an intellectual entrepreneur.” This was among Professor Benjamin Cole’s remarks to student researchers who presented their original projects at last week’s second Gabelli Undergraduate Business Research Conference. As keynote speaker, Professor Cole compared the entrepreneurial process…
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) The year’s final Smart Woman Securities seminar featured speakers from two different divisions: finance and operations. But their perspectives were similar. Veronica Valasek (GSB ’01), a senior manager in Morgan Stanley’s institutional securities group, and Deirdre Barr (GSB ’11), a products and platform client experience…
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) She wanted to be on Broadway: a singer, a dancer. Or maybe the owner of a spa chain. Yet she became the chief U.S. technical and market analyst in the investment strategy group at Merrill Lynch — the first female in the firm’s history to…
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) You want a finance internship. Did the idea of randomly walking into Wall Street offices uninvited ever occur to you? It did to Sihien Goh (GSB ’13). He sat down with Smart Woman Securities before break to share his results, as part of SWS’s corporate…
Communication skills can help you find a niche in finance, SWS members were told last week. by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) “We have a meteorologist on our team,” announced Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg. What team was she talking about? The global emerging markets equity team at her firm, where she’s…
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) Pause. Mentally go over the last few hours and find a lesson that you learned. Use this lesson to help you for the next few hours. This advice is unusual to hear at a business school. Yet in the Jesuit tradition, Gabelli School of Business…