Curiously, the undergraduate economics or finance curriculum at elite private universities such as Yale, Harvard and Princeton has a strong theoretical bent and is not immediately applicable to a career in a private firm.

• 令人感到好奇的是，在诸如耶鲁、哈佛、普林斯顿这样的名牌私立大学里，本科生的经济与金融课程带有极强的理论倾向，并不能马上应用于私人公司的业务。