From Wharton to Wall Street: An intro to corporate life

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2006

The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street By Nicole Ridgway, 284 pp., Gotham Books, $25.

Reviewed by Joseph N. DiStefano

No throats are actually cut. Nor is anyone seen to much enjoy his food, or worship God, or make love, in Ridgway's conversational exposition of life at the Wharton School.

The University of Pennsylvania business school is a place, in Ridgway's telling, where students move always on a fast, narrow and challenging path. While there's plenty of agonizing over whether investment banking or corporate training programs are a better investment of one's formative career years, the big questions (What's it all for?) are not overly indulged.

These driven undergraduates - some from humble origins and...