Wall Street Culture
Karen Ho studies this to understand the culture of investment banking
What is Wall Street?
Wall Street firms often hire students from this group of elite schools
What is the Ivy League?
This year, Wall Street was created.
What is 1972?
What happens to many Wall Street workers even during slight slowdowns?
What is they get laid off quickly?
What types of markets do investment banks prefer when expanding globally?
What are big markets like China and India?
This Ivy League university, where Karen Ho conducted interviews, serves as a key recruitment ground for Wall Street firms.
What is Princeton?
What part of the investment bank is associated with less prestigious jobs and lower floors?
What is the back office?
In what decade did oil prices push banks to seek higher returns through riskier investments?
What are the 1970s?
What feeling do many Wall Street workers constantly live with?
What is job insecurity?
True or False: Wall Street banks fully invest in and commit to every international market.
What is false?
How do Wall Street Banks target those at elite universities?
What is through recruiters (events, info sessions, dinners)?
Which two groups are most often found working in the back office?
Who are people of color and women?
What strategy did investment bankers promote to executives during the conglomeration boom?
What is buying unrelated companies?
Investment bankers often blame layoffs on what natural event?
What are market cycles?
What technology makes bankers operate as "flexible, globe-trotting empty branch offices?"
What is laptops and phones?
Minorities and graduates from non-elite schools are often seen as what, according to Wall Street recruitment culture?
What is illegitimate?
What physical structure inside investment banks highlights internal segregation by status?
What is elevators?
What was the nickname for companies that offered many services after merging unrelated businesses?
What is a One-Stop Shop?
According to Karen Ho, shareholder value pressures don’t always lead to what?
What is a rise in stock prices?
What does asymmetrical power allow U.S. investment bankers to do to the global?
What is holding the globe hostage?
What types of students are often overlooked in banking and recruitment?
What are minorities and students from non-elite schools?
What critical skill is often undervalued in Wall Street recruiting, despite its importance for real-world business judgment?
What is practical or common-sense intelligence?
In the 1980s, what groups began to dominate Wall Street, driving the push to form an “efficient corporate America”?
Who are financiers, wealthy individuals, and institutional shareholders?
What does Wall Street avoid despite its harmful practices?
What is accountability?
Why do Wall Street banks favor countries like China and India but avoid others like Sri Lanka?
What is because they only enter markets they see as profitable and prestigious?