The Buttonwood Gathering 2013, New York City

For decades, the best and brightest minds from American business schools were attracted to Wall Street by the promise of high pay and prestige. But at least since the financial crisis, high-tech companies have become an increasingly appealing destination, and today, when Silicon Valley competes head-to-head for top talent with a financial services firm, it's often winning. In this spirited debate, two heavyweight thinkers argue over the respective merits of these two diverse career paths. Can Wall Street regain its preeminence and if so how? Does it need to-and can it-sell itself as a place where Millennials can both makes lots of money--and have a positive impact on society? Or will tech firms continue to win the war for the most creative and quantitative minds?

Robert J. Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University
Vivek Wadhwa, Vice president of innovation and research, Singularity University