Columbia Conference Offers Sneak Peek at Future of Fintech
Columbia Business School announced its Frontiers of Digital Finance conference, sponsored by Deloitte, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, and organized in part by Columbia’s FinTech Club.
MIT Sloan Co-Hosts Cyber Summit to Discuss How to Thwart Cybercrime
MIT Sloan School of Management last week co-hosted the Cambridge Cyber Summit, featuring a panel of cybersecurity experts discussing ways in which government and financial institutions can minimize cybercrime by “understanding the motivations of the hackers,” according to this recent article.
MBA Internships in San Francisco and the Bay Area
Its proximity to Silicon Valley and concentration of several of the San Francisco metro’s most highly rated MBA programs make the city a perfect destination for those in search of career development via a summer internship.
Here is a look at a selection of some of the region’s hottest firms in search of MBA interns in the media, tech, healthcare, finance and food/hospitality sectors, each of which have a strong and ever expanding presence in the Bay Area.
MIT Sloan Brings Bitcoin Conference to Campus
The MIT Sloan School of Management has announced that the university’s own Bitcoin Club will host its yearly Expo on March 5 and 6. Bitcoin, for readers who missed out on the Silk Road darknet market controversy of 2013—along with their chance to purchase guns, pharmaceuticals, and data from the comfort of their own home—is an open-source virtual currency, which, according to its official site, “uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks.”
