I don't watch the show, nor do I know anything about the Advertising industry, but I found this essay/memoir on Design Observer totally fascinating.
When I started at Compton, account executives on Procter & Gamble
generally had MBAs from Penn, Columbia or Dartmouth. We were white and
generally male. We bought our (white) shirts at one of three places:
Brooks Brothers, J.Press ("of New Haven"), or Paul Stuart. There were
no other acceptable choices. I remember one black person, a messenger.
I remember firing a female account executive who was not quite cutting
it, and my peers giving me a wink over drinks.
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