BC Structural and Personal Conflict of Interest Paper – Description
During the term you are asked to read Jonathan Knee’s book, The Accidental Investment Banker. Knee’s account of his tenure at Goldman and Morgan Stanley, and then later at Evercore, charts a career that sheds light on many of the issues investment banking and the role of investment bankers in the overall economy. We have focused on several and select topics the industry struggles with:
1) its role in the formation and presence of economic bubbles
2) its confronting the immutable force of the democratization of capital;
3) the occasional ethical challenges of “closing”;
4) the re-emergence of merchant banking as a trend for the profession;
5) the inherent structural and personal conflicts of interest an investment banker often faces. Knee’s non-fiction book touches upon these topics, and others, and I believe his work illuminates much of our studies.
For your final paper, you are tasked with choosing one of the five topics we have covered this term and expand our discussion citing events that Knee recounts, his experience and his commentary. The goal is to illuminate our discussion using the same framework we have employed in class: first summarize and discuss, then identify issues and analyze and finally conclude with a recommendation.
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