When Ivy Leaguers hop on the gravy train, it’s by the caboose
For decades, America's Young and Ambitious hewed to a tried and tested regimen. Go to a good college, get an MBA, ideally from Harvard, make your way to Wall Street or get in at the bottom rung of a Fortune 500 company, and then simply let nature take its course.
But the quickening pace of change in recent years has rendered this career path as difficult to negotiate as an obstacle course. The confusion is perhaps best illustrated by the shifting career choices of Harvard MBAs over the last dozen years.
In the 1980s, when investment banking was all the rage
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