{"id":632,"date":"2018-06-16T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-06-16T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T21:05:57","slug":"leader-follower-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/2018\/06\/16\/leader-follower-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader \/ Follower Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As I briefly stated in my Week 1 blog post, Graham Partners follows a relatively standard structure in their work environment. The hierarchy follows that of a typical finance firm ranking from analysts, associates, senior associates, then managing directors and principals. But what I learned more about this week is how the people at each level are grouped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Success at a private equity firm requires specific industry knowledge. Graham\u2019s investment philosophy focuses on 7 sectors: advanced building materials, aerospace, industrial technology, healthcare, packaging, consumer\/food tech, and transportation. I am working for an analyst in industrial technology, which is a sector I was previously unfamiliar with until last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite the fragmented ranks of employees at Graham, there is a high level of trust in all employees. This includes interns, as we were given meaningful tasks and projects immediately. I believe much of this trust comes from the size. Graham only has 33 full time employees on the deals team. This creates transparency and trust through years of working with their peers. They also hire 1-2 new analysts per year from the intern pool, so the majority of employees believe in Graham\u2019s mission before they even officially start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Work has a very direct flow at Graham. The interns help prepare projects that are edited and vetted by the analysts, passed up to the associates, and eventually the final product is given to the managers. The work is structured which helps make expectations clear. Decisions are ultimately made by the 14 managers. All work below that level is to help educate and inform their decisions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the culture at Graham is very welcoming and the size creates a tight-knit group of people who tend to stay at the company for years. I am excited to meet more of the experienced employees and become a part of the Graham team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I briefly stated in my Week 1 blog post, Graham Partners follows a relatively standard structure in their work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaderfollower-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}