tkt2020 wrote:
Thanks bb! I appreciate your insight. One thing to note that may not have come across clearly in my original work post is that I am more so married to function than industry. Overall, I am certain I want to do marketing (pmm or brand management, but would be open to strategy roles too). I am most interested in tech, but also have interests still in entertainment and cpg (esp retail/activewear at brands like Nike, Patagonia, Northface). Obviously Anderson is stronger for entertainment, meanwhile for CPG it seems more school agnostic.
In terms of location, I’m open to anywhere on the west coast. I’m interested in LA, Bay Area as well as PNW like Seattle/Portland.
Also, do you have any perspective on how ranking correlates with quality of professors/academics? I don’t come from a quant background, and would value stronger faculty too for the best learning experience.
Not sure if any of this changes your perspective. Ultimately, I feel like my brain tells me Anderson but my heart tells me Haas.
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It is tough to talk about professors/classes really as there are so many perspectives. You can have the most-well known professor and have a terrible class and vice versa. Also, professors change all the time and a few of them really suck. No matter which MBA program you go to, there is always a bad prof and a few super lame class-mates. I think it is somekind of a universal law ...
You are correct in thinking that usually the better professors gravitate towards better schools and you have Stanford and the Silicon valley that would provide you with potentially a very well credentialed list of professor candidates feeding into Haas. BUT I am not sure that should be a part of the decision or you want someone cramming you with a ton of quant analysis when you are trying so desperately to get a job/internship. People get burnt out the second year and start picking the easiest classes. At this point they have fought their battles and have their wisdom so the last semester (Jan - April) is often a pretty lame one. Was my favorite though I had to work extra hard since I did an exchange and that messed my classes up a bit. Anyway, nobody will care about the Quant side except you and you can probably learn as much from a set of youtube videos or a book as you would from a class, a good or a bad one.
The source of most of your learning or a lot of it, will actually be your classmates. It is hard to judge them since you barely met anyone (and whatever impressions you go of them, they are totally posturing and not who those people are since they were as freaked and threatened to meet you as you were them; it takes 2 weeks for people to take down facades and open up in bschool). Anyway, you do get a higher caliber of classmates and tighter bond since it is a more selective program. How much is it worth? I have no idea
P.S. Sorry you did say PPM and I remember reading it last night but it got lost overnight 🤷♂️
Good for you by the way! A decent WSJ article came out over the weekend about Sales/Marketing being pretty vacant these days.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pay-is ... 1626255001Ultimately not a mistake to go to either program. I think you have higher chances/probability being in LA after Anderson and Bay Area after Haas. Where would you like to end up? (Not just which condo building do you prefer more and do you prefer to get stuck on 280 or 405 but rather which employers you would gravitate to. Where would you like to work? Is Nike in LA? (sorry, don't know if they have an office but I know Patagonia does).... No point in going to School in Berkeley only to try to recruit back in LA and a bit vice versa.
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09 Jul 2021, 20:54
