Novel advice for incoming STEM freshmen
When college and university students arrive on campus this month, they will choose their courses with an eye on future summer internship and postgraduate career opportunities. Enrollment in the humanities is in free-fall, while the rapid growth of American technology companies suggests that STEM is the only path to a prosperous career. But as the novelist Sigrid Undset writes, 'there is nothing in the experience of man which shows that the raw material of human nature has ever changed.' My advice to students interested in a career in investing or technology: read more novels. Business school courses offer practical case studies to learn from others’ strategy success in key functions and industries.
