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Anasthaesium
Joined: 04 Apr 2010
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Status:Taking heavily leveraged but calculated risks at all times
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Finance
Schools: HBS '15 Stanford '15
GMAT Date: 01-31-2012
06 Feb 2011, 22:54
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I am a merchant marines officer in a large public danish company(revenue : 0.8B$ - 1.2B$) ( not a fortune 500) and have ambitions of applying to HBS in a year or two. I am from a target undergrad from India with a great brand value.
Recently I have had an offer from a (fortune 10) oil major to join at a rank lower than the one I am currently serving as. Considering that its a huge brand name, but joining at a lower rank, will it improve my chances at HBS, on the ground of being a blue chip candidate???
Recently I have had an offer from a (fortune 10) oil major to join at a rank lower than the one I am currently serving as. Considering that its a huge brand name, but joining at a lower rank, will it improve my chances at HBS, on the ground of being a blue chip candidate???
07 Feb 2011, 12:19
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I think brand matters only to a certain extent (unless you're working for Obama and have an internship with President Hu Jin Tao in China [just an example]). The brand is used to benchmark you with other candidates, and for schools to know that you have the ability of gaining entry into a recognized company. Having said that, there's simply too many variables in your case (that you didn't disclose) for anyone to make that distinction. I am personally not someone who would recommend people to build their resumes around gaining admission to b-school, but rather someone who should do what they like and see b-school only as a byproduct because of what has occurred in life. But if this oil position is something of your liking, you should do it. Gaining entry into HBS takes way more than just a blue-chip resume (though it helps) as HBS sees more than enough people with their blue-chips on their shoulders.
Anasthaesium
Joined: 04 Apr 2010
Last visit: 16 Jan 2020
Posts: 168
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Status:Taking heavily leveraged but calculated risks at all times
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Finance
Schools: HBS '15 Stanford '15
GMAT Date: 01-31-2012
07 Feb 2011, 13:03
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There is credit to your point of not building your resume to improve admission chances.
But when you want to consider a good B School as a critical part of your career plan, it aligns certain criteria in a different way. Its like going to a west coast college so that you will have a better chance of working in the west coast ( assuming this is what you wanted before coming to college). This is certainly not to say that I would do it solely for the purpose of getting to B school.
Its like in A + B = C, I want to get to C. But I need B for that. But for B, I need A.
Well Understood that HBS requires you to be a lot more than a Blue chip candidate , especially with all the commotion around rejecting the PE types ( blue chips, arguably) this year. But assuming all other statistics good enough, how much of a difference would it make when I shift to a fortune 500 without a change in job function, role and location.
But when you want to consider a good B School as a critical part of your career plan, it aligns certain criteria in a different way. Its like going to a west coast college so that you will have a better chance of working in the west coast ( assuming this is what you wanted before coming to college). This is certainly not to say that I would do it solely for the purpose of getting to B school.
Its like in A + B = C, I want to get to C. But I need B for that. But for B, I need A.
Well Understood that HBS requires you to be a lot more than a Blue chip candidate , especially with all the commotion around rejecting the PE types ( blue chips, arguably) this year. But assuming all other statistics good enough, how much of a difference would it make when I shift to a fortune 500 without a change in job function, role and location.
