While most offspring are typically not available for comment following the resignations, voluntary or otherwise, of their banker dads (lookin’ at you, Jimmy Cayne, Jr.), earlier today prolific Tweeter Nell Diamond had this to say to the Brits who have been cheering her father’s departure: “George Osborne and Ed Miliband you can go ahead and #HMD.” Read more »
[via AlecBaldwin, earlier, related]
Why do you want to go to business school? Is it to advance your career? While that may be the answer for many, that’s not what business school admissions officers want to hear. They’re bored. Sick of it. They want to be wowed. They want to drill down to who you are- as a human. They want to get to know you. Step out of these clothes and slip into something more comfortable. Figure out what motivates you. What makes you tick. How to they intend to do this? By changing the face of the b-school application process as we know it. The well compensated powers that be in academia have revolutionized the interview process in the following ways: Read more »
Let Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, And Millions Of Strangers Tell You How They Feel About The Stock Market
By Matt Levine
If you work at a big bank you probably don’t have access to much in the way of social media at work, which makes sense, since you would probably use Facebook mostly to insider trade and Twitter to prank the Compton sheriff’s department or tweet fake elevator conversations.
But now you have a better excuse for condensing your market research into 140-character: Read more »
Sayth Bill via the PIMCO Twitter feed (yes): “Not to rain on your parade but be leery of today’s exuberance.” [PIMCO via Heidi Moore ]
Congressman Anthony Weiner Offers Several Tips Titans Of Wall Street Ought To File Away For Safe-Keeping
By Bess Levin
Thinking about tweeting pictures of your package to some college chicks? Head of a public company whose board might take issue with the shots and try and force you out? If you want to keep your job, schedule a meeting (10 days after you get caught) and take several pages from Congressman Anthony Weiner’s playabook. Read more »
Nouriel Roubini Is Not Yet Convinced This Dominique Strauss-Kahn Business Wasn’t A Set-Up
By Bess LevinHe took to Twitter last night to say as much. Read more »
As you may have heard, earlier this week Charles Sheen (née Carlos Irwin Estevez) joined Twitter, gaining approximately five trillion followers in under an hour. So far the pearls of wisdom proffered from Sheen’s firebreathing fists/fingers have included: “Face it folks, you just feel better when you say it. #WINNING,” “I’m here for my people..!” and, in response to one from P. Diddy (“can u please send me the address to ur house? Ive been dreamin about a party like this all my life! See u soon! Lol”), “Get dressed my man… sending the driver..!” Most people probably assumed Chuck signed up to add another dimension to his latest bit of performance art but that’s actually not the case. Sheen, who also this week demanded a 50% pay raise to return to the show he’s been fired from, did it from the cash money. Read more »
The account will presumably be used more as a way to communicate relevant business information to the media and investors than keeping us abreast of role-playing night at Chez Schwarzman but perhaps whoever is operating this thing will make the wise decision to give the people what they want. [Twitter via Dealbook]
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