One common question I’ve been getting lately is how to decide on a summer internship when you have multiple offers. For those lucky enough to be in this position, how do you pick which internship to accept and which to turn down?
Since this varies quite a bit for each person, I’ve anonymized and listed [...]

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For everyone new to the site, I though it might be helpful to recap January 2008, just as I did for December 2007.
January was the second full month of operation for Mergers & Inquisitions, and I’m proud to say that visitors and pageviews more than doubled over December levels! I hope you’re continuing to [...]

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“I work for a boutique investment bank,” responded Todd cockily, smirking and now pulling up his pants over his temporarily retreated beer-gut, illustrating that this was one of those hardcore New York male-anorexia and exercise weeks. He would be spilling out of pants next week no problem after this weekend’s depression-gorge.
Todd paused and collected himself. [...]

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