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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by cm2187 on Monday May 27, 2019 @01:47PM (#20023940)
In the US, does the rubber stamp effect have much impact beyond the first hire?

In banking in the UK, I literally have no idea what education my colleagues have, and after a few years of experience, I feel the university is pretty much irrelevant, other than certain specific majors, if for instance they are quantitative or computer science. But I feel that an MBA would play no role in a promotion.

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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by chrisseaton on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:49PM (#20024373)
> In banking in the UK, I literally have no idea what education my colleagues have, and after a few years of experience, I feel the university is pretty much irrelevant, other than certain specific majors, if for instance they are quantitative or computer science.

Yes the UK banking sector is famous for being made up from people of a very wide range of backgrounds...

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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by krapht on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:02PM (#20024056)
Surely Oxbridge or LSE mean something on a consultant's resume.
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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:08PM (#20024095)
Rubber stamps matter in consulting. Less so in banking, and negligibly so in trading.
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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by NotSammyHagar on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:00PM (#20024459)
I think I've heard of Oxbridge, don't know what it is, what is lse? I'm in the us though, not in banking.
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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:01PM (#20024473)
> what is lse?

London School of Economics [1]. Prestigious British school, largely only relevant, outside the U.K., to economists and financiers.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/

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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by a3n on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:34PM (#20024723)
> what is lse?

The school that Mick Jagger went to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger

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Re:Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus M... by elemeno on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:11PM (#20024553)
Oxbridge is a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. In the UK it's a term often used to refer to the universities - which are routinely ranked as the top two universities globally.
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