I'm a second-year dual MBA/MSCF student at Tepper. I'm originally from Texas, but I moved to California as soon as I found out about it. After a brief stint in M&A, I spent most of my pre-business-school career working in economic consulting - the business of providing expert economists' opinions and testimony to companies involved in legal disputes. There was variety, creativity, data, qualitative research, economists, lawyers, boxes and boxes of documents, plus the usual consulting stuff like deadlines resulting in some late nights here and there.
In that field, though, it's quite difficult to move up without an advanced degree so I came back to school to follow my quantitative finance star via the MBA/MSCF gig all the way to an internship at Deutsche Bank in London this summer. This was a 10-week interview. Which I passed - yay! So now, I feel as if at a crossroads in my life. Do I accept or recruit further? Do I want to press ahead with quantitative finance or go back to consulting or explore something else? Not a bad position to be in, of course - options are good, as a general rule.
And then there is the day-to-day back at school - Management Game has arrived in full force. In seven weeks, ask me if I feel comfortable making good decisions in unstructured environments, and I will look wisely at you and speak with the utmost confidence - of course! Now, I am more like wait a minute, is this number for my company or my world? Uh, which company am I again?
Hi Rachel, Congratulations for your amazing Blog!!! I live in Uruguay and I want to follow your path,to apply to the Tepper MBA/MSCF dual degree. I'd like to write you some emails to ask you some questions about the program and about the univerisity. Can you please contact me.
Thank you very much!!! And keep writing!!!
Posted by: Diego Nachmann | December 24, 2006 at 09:00 AM