MBA after PhD？请教大家

fisherrui

One important note:  Make sure you have a good story for your education experience and how the combination of a PhD and MBA leads to your future aspirations. 

seren_q

Fisherrui and others, many many thanks.

Recently, it has been a tough time for me - swinging between being
dreamy and desperate, doing lots of research on MBA programs and
consulting career, and still trying to maintain an acceptable working
progress in lab work. After asking so many people for advice, it has
just got more and more clear to me that though I am not in a strong
position, I have to try anyways. What worries me most is whether or not
I can get a decent job after doing an MBA, in relatively good schools,
of course. I fully understand that MBA by itself is nothing else but "a
piece of paper". It is the skills and networking opportunities you gain
from the top-notch training programs that matter.

Anyway, being a bio PhD who have wasted 5 years in bench work and see
no future after getting the PhD (another example of "a piece of
paper"), I really have nothing to lose, so I have no excuse to step
back to my shell either. Wish all of us good luck.

summertan

I have also been struggling this issue. I agree that if you believe this is your dream, go chase it. There is nothing to lose. Another point that I want to raise is that you might want to consider your post MBA job landing. An Ph.D+ MBA is a great plus, but without any real work expeireince, it would be hard for you to go to consulting industry later on, considering you will be competing with similar technical person who has MBA+experience from big pharma 

Basic research should be ok to land in a job in big research companies, lots of big pharma have fundemental resarch division just like acdemia. So besides trying for consulting right away and applying MBA, you may want to research the big companies as well. If your final goal is to get in a top management consulting firm, 'd better put some big names on your resume, great B-school, big company, they look for big names and your track record. If your goal is something else, then it is another story.

Whatever you decide, best luck.

leoleo0802

以下是引用seren_q在2008-3-24 3:10:00的发言：

咨询当然是要试的，不过觉得挺难的。

我也听说没有工作经验就算有了MBA也不是很好找工作，但是top的也是这样吗？我是只打算试试好的那几所，不行也不去读一般的了，反正也没用。

唉，我这不是郁闷找不着工作么，找得到我何苦要这么急着读MBA?怪圈阿怪圈。

I suggest that you try to look for some programs related to your major, such as Health Care etc.

Don't be upset.  If you could get a PhD, there would be nothing impossible.