"March Madness" For Bragging Rights At Elite Firms; Vault Unveils Online Tournament for I-Banks, Consulting, and Law Firms.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001 NCAA basketball This article is about the Nintendo game. For the collegiate sport, see College basketball. NCAA Basketball (known as World League Basketball teams aren't the only ones vying for the number-one spot this March. Starting today, visitors of Vault.com, the Insider Career Network(TM), can vote for the country's most prestigious names in investment banking, law and consulting in Vault's March Madness March Madness may refer to:
The tournament works like this: Vault's editors have picked the top 32 firms in their respective industries and grouped them into brackets. Visitors then vote for one of the two firms that they believe to be the most prestigious. The top two companies left standing in each industry will face off March 30 through April 3. Heated debate within the notoriously competitive industries has already surfaced on the tournament message boards. A visitor to the investment banking board writes: "Goldman vs. Houlihan Lokey? HLHZ HLHZ Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, Inc. (investment banking services) better not get more than four votes. And those votes better be from Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin." A poster from the consulting board adds: "About the no.1 slot - that one should definitely go to Accenture. Where McKinsey might have been on top in the 80's and the beginning of the 90's, I don't see who else but Accenture is really ready for the world we live in now." To visit Vault's March Madness Tournament visit: http://www.vault.com/community/poll/marchmadness/mm_index.jsp About Vault, Inc. Vault, Inc. is a leading new media company focused on careers, the workplace and jobs. Vault's primary offering is an online resource, www.vault.com, which offers detailed "insider" information on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of expert-moderated message boards for professionals. Offline, Vault offers nine nationally distributed print books, a syndicated newspaper column, and networking events on career and HR issues. For hiring managers and recruiters, Vault operates EmployerVault(TM), a comprehensive online resource featuring top-quality HR content, message boards, job listings, a resume database, and a one-click job posting service that allows users to post on multiple job boards with one account. Vault was founded in 1997 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman Mark Stanford Oldman (1969- ) is an American entrepreneur and wine personality. In 1997, Oldman founded Vault.com, formerly Vault Reports, a popular recruitment company. He is co-president and director of Vault. , together recently named to the "Silicon Alley An area in New York that has become known for its companies devoted to multimedia and the Internet. It is located in Manhattan's "Soho" district, which does not stand for Small Office Home Office, rather it is SOuth of HOuston Street. 100: New York's 100 Most Influential Internet Executives." The company's investors include Hollinger Capital, The Kuwait Fund, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Investment Fund, American Lawyer Media ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media), is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and real estate communities. ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused on the legal and real estate communities, including , Ingram Book Group, DB Alex Brown, Globix, and angel investor An individual who invests his or her own money in a private company, which is typically a startup. An angel investor is not an employee or member of a bank, venture capital firm or other financial institution that normally makes such investments. Esther Dyson. |
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