The age old question. Have opportunity for both. What do you suggest? Yoe 6 Currently a PM as well.
Dis u get scholarship at HBS?
Harvard will expand your network and the MBA is a permanent differentiator
If you aren’t getting a full ride for the mba. Not worth it
Go do your MBA and your exposure to businesses will increase . Your scope for learning increases and areas to get into also increases. Dont confine yourselves. You never know you might start your own firm
If you want to continue in tech, you’ll learn a lot more as a google PM, work with a lot more smarter people in google. Plus think of the 2 year opportunity cost (income you stand to loose plus HBS cost). Some will say you stand to gain from HBS network and lifelong tag, but you’ll do the same with google tag.
Google first then Harvard then back to G at a senior/ more exciting role - brownie points if you can take an education leave & make them pay for part of education 🤓
I like this. If you can crack Harvard MBA option without Google PM experience, it should only be easier to crack Harvard MBA option when you DO have Google PM experience, right? Plus, you have to account for how you would be paying money the whole time that you’re at Harvard instead of making money
Just note that you generally start at L4 post MBA, L5 if you have a decent amount of experience. I did find that an MBA and SWE background have let me climb quickly though.
For what it’s worth, none of my director-level manager PMs have MBAs. But if you wanna try buy-side or MBB consulting, it’ll be probably good to use the MBA to pivot/recruit for those selective mba-pipelines.
I had very bad experience with PMs. The ones I encountered don’t know anything and serve as glorified admin assistants.
Go do mba and do something other than pm
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If you’re planning to stay in tech, mba isn’t as important.