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McK Insider? |
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McK - Age & Exec MBA vs Regular MBA |
| Date Posted: |
09/26/1999 |
| Message: |
Question-1: I have a Stanford PhD in Engineering (top-ranked
school) with six years of valuable high-tech telcom-industry
experience. Will start an MBA program next year but however, when I finish the MBA I will be about 37 years old. Clearly,this
would make me older than the typical candidate for a McKinsey position. Would this necessarily affect my potential chances of
being hired at McKinsey ? Any insights regarding
age/experienced-hire and/or PhD+MBA combination would be gratefully appreciated, particularly from McK insiders.
Question-2: Still figuring out whether to go the Exec-MBA
weekend route (i.e. Fri/Sat, my Co. would pay but obligated to repay the Co. if depart within 2 yrs of acquiring degree) or to
bite the bullet, drop everything and go thru full-time regular MBA program. There are pros and cons for each option. What I would like to know is - would McK consider hiring someone from an Exec-MBA program (2-yr Exec Progams at Wharton, Columbia, Cornell; 1-yr Sloan-Exec Programs at Stanford and MIT) ? Have they done so in the past ? Or is the MBA hiring focus limited to younger applicants from traditional 2-yr full-time programs ? Again, any insights, opinions and anecdotes,
particularly from McK insiders would be gratefully appreciated.
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