The Wall Street Journal: Scott Rostan What Is GARP?

By Simon Constable https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-garp-1504576800 This hybrid stock-picking style incorporates elements of both growth and value investing In a recent report—“The Death of Value?”—Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs poses an important question about an out-of-favor investing style. Its conclusion seems to be that value investing isn’t dead. Rather, it has morphed into a stock-picking strategy known as...

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Wall Street Journal: Chirag Saraiya “The Path From Harvard and Yale to Goldman Sachs Just Changed”

Wall Street bank drops interviews at elite schools in a bid to cast a wider net; now all applicants must first submit a video http://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-rethinks-campus-recruiting-efforts-1466709118 By LINDSAY GELLMAN Goldman Sachs Group Inc.has always sought to attract the best and the brightest. Now it also wants the most committed. The bank has concluded that helping...

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The Wall Street Journal: Scott Rostan “Project Funway: Code Names Spice Up the Art of the Deal”

By Gillian Tan and Liz Hoffman http://online.wsj.com/articles/bankers-lament-loss-of-code-names-for-deals-1409279749  Bankers Enjoy Coining Monikers to Keep Mergers Quiet; Software Threatens the Fun "Project Swift" sounds like the name of a military invasion or an Olympic marathoner's training plan. But it is actually the code name for a corporate buyout, inspired by a private-equity associate's fondness for...

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Wall Street Journal: Scott Rostan “Reaching the Top Ranks of Blackstone Without an M.B.A.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/31/reaching-the-top-ranks-of-blackstone-without-an-m-b-a/  By Mike Spector Real-estate guru Jonathan Gray heads Blackstone’s largest business, chairs the board of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., just became a billionaire on paper and is in line to one day run the world’s largest private-equity firm. But he’s also notable for something he doesn’t have: an M.B.A. The 43-year-old Gray, who...

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Wall Street Journal: Interview Overload for B-School Students

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/08/22/interview-overload-for-b-school-students/ By Melissa Korn Talk about casting a wide net. Nineteen percent of respondents to a recent survey of business students said they participated in more than 10 first-round job interviews last school year, while another 40% went in for between four and seven. Factor in a few second- and third-round callbacks, and...

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Wall Street Journal: Scott Rostan on “Internships Are Increasingly the Route to Winning a Job”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324423904578525431344927240.html More Industries Pick From the Summer Talent, Raising the Stakes By MELISSA KORN Internship season is under way, and unless business students are already spending the summer with their dream employer, a full-time offer may be out of reach. Banks and consulting firms have long funneled interns into full-time roles, but companies in other...

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Wall Street Journal: Training The Street Releases Relative Valuation Course Pack As Self-Study Product

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130423-910440.html Fundamental Subject for Finance Professionals is Another Addition to TTS's Growing Library NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ -- Training The Street (TTS), a leading corporate training provider for the majority of Wall Street firms and top business schools, today released their Relative Valuation Course Pack as a self-study product. Students and professionals in the financial...

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Wall Street Journal: Scott Rostan in “Job Prospects Improve for MBA Students”

Wall Street Journal By: Melissa Korn Job Prospects Improve for MBA Students More recruiters are looking to hire newly minted M.B.A.s this spring, building on gains made with last year's graduating class. Overall, 79% of companies plan to hire M.B.A.s from the class of 2012, according to a Graduate Management Admission Council survey of...

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