City high schools should teach students to code computers, business leaders said Thursday. “We need to inject programming and computer science into the core curriculum at the earliest age possible,” said Jon Brod, a former NBA executive now piloting start-ups. Brod, currently heading up an instant messaging app startup called […]
Author: Rosa Kreitzman-Goldensohn
A Wall Streeter Jumps To Tech
Greg Golkin went to work on Wall Street straight out of Wharton in 2006. A sharp-as-a-tack Upper East Side native, Golkin, 30, knew that if he worked hard, success and wealth were his for the taking. But after tours at investment firms and hedge funds, he jumped ship to the […]
Tech is too cool for B-school
Everyone from the mayor to business leaders to real estate brokers is betting on tech as the next engine of the city’s economy. But business school students aren’t. They remain committed to finance, though now they want to work for hedge funds and private equity rather than the big-name banks. […]
With condo prices in the sky, young bankers rent instead
As city real estate prices soar, Wall Street’s woes are behind one overlooked aspect of the rental rise: uncertain young bankers renting apartments rather than buying. Finance workers have long driven the real estate market in New York. Before the financial crisis, that took the form of big condo and […]
Banks hiring for compliance, but this is no Wall Street job boom
As regulators continue to churn out Dodd-Frank rules four years afterits passage, Wall Street banks continue to tack on thousands of compliancestaff and spend billions to restructure.JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon told employees that the bank had hired 4,000employees for compliance since 2012. Citibank said in July they willhave 30,000 […]