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cannedpineapple

IA -> FC - CFO -> CEO?  ossible (everything is) but unlikely ....

M7 -> Management leadership program / consulting -> mid/senior level management -> CEO? Again, possible but a little bit more likely ~~~

Anyway, either IA or MBA will only be the very very first step toward your goal. To me, the biggest difference is that the latter will give you many more options besides your current aspiration~

-- by 会员 Fightingman (2010/1/31 23:29:53)

At Wharton, Career Management tells us that they find that many consulting alums find it difficult to move into mid/senior level management, for one simple reason: they are specialists only at running strategy, and even then only for short projects that are quite different from a long corporate engagement. If a company wanted a marketing manager, they'll look for a marketing specialist. If they wanted a financial controller, they'll look for a banker. Only when they look for a strategy guy (and these departments tend to be very small- after all, most companies simply 'rent' the strategy work from consulting firms), is their first choice a consulting guy.

Hence they tell us that if you want to go into a corporate job, to consider carefully whether the best route to get there is through a consulting firm.

topmba2009

At Wharton, Career Management tells us that they find that many consulting alums find it difficult to move into mid/senior level management, for one simple reason: they are specialists only at running strategy, and even then only for short projects that are quite different from a long corporate engagement.

-- by 会员 jelt2359 (2010/2/1 8:03:25)

Not if they are pursuing a mid/senior level management within the same consulting industry. If you are a managing consultant now, you could be evaluated upward to be an Associated Director or even a Director if you can bring the targeted revenues, depending on which firm you are working for.

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如果我是你，当然LVMH。

zonia

实在太谢谢各位大大的意见了。。。

各位说得都对，其实这个dilemma是源于我的career goal是management of luxury goods retail / wholesale，LVMH is indeed the God of this industry。而且这个IA post是他们一个High Potential Recruits Program的一部分，间接是guaranteed career development.对我这个只有四大和一点点商业经历的弱人是难以割舍的Dream Offer...

MBA is my dream for years... it's not easy to say no to it while I got offered. 大大们觉得我跟学校申请defer有机会么? Or I should just take a Part-time MBA along with LVMH job? (I'm in HK and got a MSc Finance from HKUST港科大)

谢谢热心的牛牛们!!!

fengerjin

读书的目的是为了有更好的发展机会，也就是说，为了换个工作，或好个更好的起点

既然你都有了这个机会了，MBA对你何用啊

如果说单纯为了MBA的名头，等你爬上去了，回头去M7读个一年得EMBA不是更容易而且更舒服。

cannedpineapple

At Wharton, Career Management tells us that they find that many consulting alums find it difficult to move into mid/senior level management, for one simple reason: they are specialists only at running strategy, and even then only for short projects that are quite different from a long corporate engagement.

-- by 会员 jelt2359 (2010/2/1 8:03:25)

Not if they are pursuing a mid/senior level management within the same consulting industry. If you are a managing consultant now, you could be evaluated upward to be an Associated Director or even a Director if you can bring the targeted revenues, depending on which firm you are working for.

-- by 会员 topmba2009 (2010/2/1 8:09:54)

Do you mean (for example) if you worked for the retail industry, and now you go back into it, for say a marketing (not strategy) job? My point is simply that there will also be, say, marketing executives from the retail industry vying for the same marketing job- and they could be construed as better qualified.

Again though, this works on the average. It's based on career management talking to many alums who both hire/are looking for such jobs. The situation will certainly be different for each individual case.

cannedpineapple

实在太谢谢各位大大的意见了。。。

各位说得都对，其实这个dilemma是源于我的career goal是management of luxury goods retail / wholesale，LVMH is indeed the God of this industry。而且这个IA post是他们一个High Potential Recruits Program的一部分，间接是guaranteed career development.对我这个只有四大和一点点商业经历的弱人是难以割舍的Dream Offer...

MBA is my dream for years... it's not easy to say no to it while I got offered. 大大们觉得我跟学校申请defer有机会么? Or I should just take a Part-time MBA along with LVMH job? (I'm in HK and got a MSc Finance from HKUST港科大)

谢谢热心的牛牛们!!!

-- by 会员 zonia (2010/2/1 10:05:00)

That's true. You can also defer. The finance types will tell you that the value of an option is always >/ 0, and so if you can delay a decision, delay it.

I would talk to your school to see if this is an option. Most schools are very understanding.

susanfly

话说，IA到CFO的从来没见过也没听说过。我觉得unlikely……

另……M7哪一所啊，何必遮遮掩掩……CBS?

zonia

话说，IA到CFO的从来没见过也没听说过。我觉得unlikely……

另……M7哪一所啊，何必遮遮掩掩……CBS?

-- by 会员 susanfly (2010/2/1 15:08:19)

susanfly, as I said, the post is a stepping stone to Financial controller role (which is a confirmed prospect) and I wanna know if Financial Controller can make a CFO role after some years of services.

还有，我没有要遮掩些什么，只是觉得我的问题是一个不错的MBA and Job offer，所以什么学校不是那么重要。。。用M7作代号是想避免question focus去了什么学校对luxury最好这样的讨论...

Thanks for your comment.

withmoon

banking makes CFO, CF makes CFO, event consulting does, but not controller.