Picked this up today citing a recent survey of MBAs where 1 out of 4 ranked Google their #1 target for a job.  Unfortunately, this may not be good news for the company.

There has been some research into how the career choices of MBA grads (Harvard in this case) are strong negative indicators for the stock market.  The logic being that by the time the horde has its sites on the big dough of Wall Street, the up cycle and good times have just about run their course.  Recent data was eerily predictive of the recent decline, volatility, and layoffs there.

Here is an interesting article from way back in 1994 on this.  Here's the HBS career stats if you care to do your own analysis.  The fella that came up with this is a former Brown Brothers Harriman exec named Ray Soifer. Check out his site and the "2007 Harvard MBA Stock Indicator."  Here's an article from the NY Sun on him.  Dealbreaker has covered it a couple times as well – here and here.

Think this applies outside of Wall Street?  Maybe the "free food" variable will counter this force…