Moelis Deck
Sketch Ken Moelis's career arc — Drexel to DLJ to UBS to founding his own firm — and explain why interviewers care that you know it.
Model answer
The arc
- starts at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Los Angeles in the 1980s, the crucible of leveraged finance
- after Drexel's collapse, builds a powerhouse investment banking franchise at…
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