Or basically any independent contributor role, where you’re giving specific parts of the project to go off and execute, and someone else is responsible for the big-picture view, and for communicating with everyone across the team and department, up and down the chain of the organization? If so, we invite you to go read this […]
Continue reading...($) “Is 30 too old…?”
This question is relevant to our question today: “Is 30 too old to work in a startup?” Hmmmm. If there’s a bias against “older” in startup recruiting, and “older” is defined as over 30, and there’s already a bias against MBAs in Silicon Valley… Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have all been […]
Continue reading...Want to go to work in Big Tech? The FANG story is evolving. (Or devolving.)
In case you’d not heard it before, “FANG”, or more accurately but not as catchily, “FAANG”, is Facebook – Alphabet – Apple – Netflix – Google. Uh, Netflix? Yeah, this witty acronym first came about a little while ago . All the cool kids want to go work at these companies. Honestly, these names show […]
Continue reading...($) “I want to work at Google” aka career goals and interviewing
This post has little to do with Harvard, even though many if not most of you applicants will be Harvard-focused today. This post has everything to do with how you talk about your future post-MBA goals. The reason it has little to do with Harvard is that career goals may or may not come up […]
Continue reading...($) Post-MBA career trends at Kellogg
Or likely at most top American MBA programs over the past five years. This post focuses on Kellogg mainly because their employment reports are detailed enough on this particular dimension to do the analysis. They’re also a solid general management program which attracts employers of all stripes. They continue to send graduates into the traditional […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! LBS post-MBA goals
Dang! This post was supposed to go up on Friday! And it didn’t! So sorry about that! We haven’t missed a post in like years! Here it is today; we hope it is worth the wait. 🙂 The general rule of thumb for applying to a top MBA program is, apply in the earlier rounds. […]
Continue reading...($) Want to go to work at Amazon?
Amazon is certainly hiring a lot of MBAs these days. It seems that every school lists them as a top employer. We know of former BSers who are headed into a variety of roles at Amazon from different schools. To Google, too, but Amazon is really tapping this market. The most common career goal we...
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The other likely driver of increased MBA app volumes
While that substitution effect that we described recently, with people swapping out the MBA for the JD in building their future careers, is likely a factor, it does not explain why app volumes would be increasing so markedly, or why app QUALITY has been going up with so many stronger profiles trying for the MBA […]
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