
Career Advice from Chicago Booth Professor Chris McGowan - Part 1
Private Equity Funcast
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How to Break Into the PE World After Business School
Cassandra: So I'm hoping Chris, you can help impart some wisdom to our listeners here. But as a professor of a PE lab, a class wherein what two thirds of the students don't have any prior private equity experience and they're required to intern at a private equity firm, you have a lot of experience. What is some general advice you give to your students trying to get to a PE firm after business school? And then how does that differ between people like Cass who have worked in PE prior versus folks like myself who have not and are trying to switch careers?Chris: No, great, great question. Every year, I would say that we're sending anywhere from one to
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