Though Rubin got a late start in planning for his year, he managed to cable an application to the London School of Economics.
He describes the experience as a “wonderful year” and remembers interacting with an international community “very different than Harvard.”
As a non-degree student, Rubin says, “I could do what I wanted to do. I could get up at some hour convenient for me and attend lectures for the day that interested me.”
At the London School of Economics, Rubin met a thriving community of scholars from the developing world. This experience would later influence his approach to the global marketplace.
“In a funny way, the LSE experience taught me how different the world looks when viewed from a developing country than from viewing the world from the world I was used to,” Rubin says.
Into the Money
“The financial world was an interesting place to me,” Rubin says.
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