{"id":385,"date":"2009-03-04T11:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2009-03-17T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:21:50","slug":"mba-in-finance-forget-it-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-in-finance-forget-it-no\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA in Finance: Forget It? No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog know that last Thursday I started a short series,\u00a0\"MBA in Finance: Forget It?\" I posed a less provocative version of that question to several admissions directors and with their permission posted their responses. While their replies varied and emphasized different points, they were all thoughtful, and a few concepts were consistent for almost all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don't forget finance and investment banking! It is critical to business. It may be down, but it's not dead. It will resurrect itself in a new form, but it won't disappear.<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to discuss intelligently the challenges in the field.<\/li>\n<li>Have a <em>realistic <\/em>plan for achieving your goal.<\/li>\n<li>Most indicated that a Plan B, especially for career changers, is a good idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To further the last point, we received several detailed interview reports today in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/interviewfeedback.aspx\">MBA Interview Feedback Database<\/a>, including one for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/interviews\/search_details.asp?IntID=9774&amp;bhcp=1\">NYU<\/a>. As if on cue, this applicant wrote in response to \"What was the most difficult question [in your interview]?\":<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given today's economy, what is your Plan B if you can't get the summer internship or job that you are interested in? Even though I was prepared to answer this question, my interviewer mentioned that a lot of prospective MBA students are so locked into their plan that it's almost like tunnel vision and they haven't giving much thought to a back-up plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog know that last Thursday I started a short series,\u00a0&#8220;MBA in Finance: Forget It?&#8221; I posed a less provocative version of that question to several admissions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,4,6,10],"tags":[22,19,39,124,66],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-career-reviews","category-current-events","category-interviews","tag-finance","tag-investment-banking","tag-mba-admissions","tag-mba-interview","tag-nyu-stern","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}