September 22, 2008

Business Schools and Students React to Financial Crisis

By Peter Schmidt

Washington

Investors were hardly the only ones shaken by the tumult in the financial markets last week. Business schools, as well as their current and prospective students, suddenly found themselves struggling to make sense of events on Wall Street and worrying about job prospects in some areas of their field.

At a recruitment fair for business schools staged here at the National Building Museum, many of the would-be students spoke nervously of friends who had lost jobs on Wall Street,

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