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McK Insider? |
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Looking for Answer |
| Date Posted: |
09/29/1999 |
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PLEASE FORGIVE THE RE-POST BUT I AM DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET SOME FEEDBACK ON THE FOLLOWING TWO QUESTIONS
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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Brian, KAS, Mck Insider, etc. Do you have an answer for the gentleman with the Stanford PhD concerning the Exec MBA vs the 2yr MBA? To all those reading this board in the future, please note that if the real questions are not answered then these threads are just a bunch of bullshit and the people posting them are not real consultants but just a bunch of folks screwing around. Do not waste your time on this site. This site should have some type of screening process along with maintaining confidentiality if that is possible.
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