The University of Pennsylvania's midtown Manhattan alumni clubhouse is also the new home of the Canadian Club of New York, the host of tonight's soiree. One hundred Canadian MBA candidates from seven universities have traveled here, to the centre of the world's financial markets, for a whirlwind evening of schmoozing and to see what the Big Apple has to offer them. The Canadian MBA Showcase, as the event is called, was strategically planned for early September to grab the attention of Wall Street's investment banks before they started visiting the topflight American MBA schools in search of new hires. Tonight's shindig follows on the heels of the seven Canadian universities' first such event, held in Silicon Valley this past April. And expect our best and brightest MBA hopefuls to host two such road shows a year, for as long as the market abroad proves such a forceful draw.
Students are borderless, and it's time for schools to be borderless.
After working more than 12 hours on the Street, the investment bankers and Canadian alumni arrive, loosen their ties and unwind with a Moosehead or a Labatt Blue. Almost everything in New York is done on such a grand scale, and these top Canadian students are by no means fish out of water. Canadian MBA schools have come to realize that they must provide their top students the opportunity to go wherever they want in the world. A lot of students are demanding access to US and international recruiters. MBA candidates are paying big bucks and giving up decent salaries to go back to school.