Liquidated
An Ethnography of Wall Street
by Karen Ho · first published 2009
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…big teams at FAANG's a couple years after graduation. That's just the perks you get in Silicon Valley. Wall Street is another level entirely. They only hire elite MBAs. A great book to read on this is Liquidated by Karen Ho, which details the many privileges elite graduates get on Wall Street.
on “Elite MBAs are no Longer Relevant” ↗…These are the social pressures that michaelochurch talks about, they are very real, and what you do and where you live will affect your chances of promotion. For an insight I do recommend Karen Ho's "Liquidated", it's an anthropological study of Wall Street.
on “How to screw up your life by getting promoted” ↗Required reading: Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street https://www.dukeupress.edu/Liquidated
on “A Harvard Professor Has Mixed Feelings When Students Take Jobs in Finance” ↗I'm reading a book now call "Liquidated: an Ethnography of Wall Street" by Karen Ho from Princeton. There is this incredible part at the beginning of the book where the Vice Presidents of Goldman Sachs are training the incoming group of Junior…
on “Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack” ↗