Poets & Quants for Undergrads

6 days ago | poetsandquantsforundergrads.com | Kristy Bleizeffer

Alex Edmans knew the book front to back long before he was asked to help write it. He studied it as an undergrad at Oxford University. He was handed a copy when he joined Morgan Stanley as a new analyst where it sat on the shelf of every senior banker. He later taught Principles of Corporate Finance as a PhD candidate at MIT where he was a teaching assistant to one of the book’s original co-authors, Stewart Myers.

1 week ago | poetsandquantsforundergrads.com | Kristy Bleizeffer

Shalin Bhatia wants to help people be heard, especially those who feel left out of civic decision-making. The Industrial Engineering student at Georgia Tech grew up in Atlanta where he saw deep divisions in wealth, infrastructure, and opportunity. Bhatia proposed Civisight, a digital platform combined with physical mailboxes in underserved neighborhoods to help residents report issues and keep up with issues important to their communities.

1 week ago | poetsandquantsforundergrads.com | Kristy Bleizeffer

Even as diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts come under political fire across the United States, many business schools remain committed to building classrooms that reflect the real world. That commitment shows up in the makeup of their student bodies: who gets in, who shows up, and who sees themselves in the business world to begin with. At Poets&Quants, we believe these numbers matter.

1 week ago | poetsandquantsforundergrads.com | Marc Ethier

The 2026 Vault Accounting rankings are in, and they tell a story that every business student thinking about an accounting career should pay attention. With hiring challenges, shifts in work-life balance, and firms scaling back remote work options, the accounting industry is evolving and it’s evolving quickly. Each year, 10,000 accounting professionals weigh in on their firms, ranking everything from compensation and benefits to training and work-life balance.

1 week ago | poetsandquantsforundergrads.com | Kristy Bleizeffer

If the accounting major had a Hinge profile, it’d likely get more ghosts than likes from Gen Z business students. Compared to consulting’s sky-high starting salaries, or finance’s sleek pop culture image, accounting’s reputation as repetitive and boring just doesn’t seem as sexy. “You see movies about finance, you see movies about Wall Street, you see movies about trading,” says Mike Peters, chair of the Department of Accounting & Information Systems at Villanova School of Business.