My cousin has a bachelors in Computer Science and is currently persuing MBA in a tier 1 university in India. He is supposed to select his specilisation in a week but he is confused. Adding extra info: Business Analytics MBA is a brand new one in his college. Syllabus had Predictive Analytics, Business Analytics papers, Programming with Python, Linear regression, Big Data Analytics, BI tools, Cognitive Analytics etc. Unfortunately Product Management is not available as a specialisation in his college. Please don’t advice to follow his passion or heart. Also dont ask why is he doing MBA! I wouldn’t be posting this here for such answers. Assume that the student doesn’t have clear picture of what he wants to do after MBA. This poll is for getting guidance and open opinion on different streams of MBA from you guys!!
An MBA professor gave this advice: When studying the MBA, take the hard-functional courses that will actually help you develop the necessary skills, don't take the 'soft' courses or specialization that you can acquire later. The 'hard' specializations in your list are Business Analytics and Financial Management. Depending on your cousin's inclination/ career aspirations, he could choose one. The rest, in that sense, are 'soft' courses that can be acquired later (with experience).
I suggested him to take Finance as core, and learn data analytics on side through course era etc and go in to Fin Tech companies. What do you think?
I couldn't disagree more with this. You can't teach yourself the soft skills without a group setting and a Prof who forces you to think on your feet under pressure.
Depends on his skills. He should Max them or compliment them. Depends on what jobs he wants as well. Those would help his answer. Not: lean ops or hr though
I suggested him to take Finance as core, and learn data analytics on side through course era etc and go in to Fin Tech companies. What do you think?
Finance Management... Finance is the King Analytics sounds like (un)glorified data scientist work! I’m sure he’a not doing MBA for data scientist/Python coding skills.
I’m getting the impression the student doesn’t know what he wants to do post-MBA. That’s a mistake before entering a program. For instance consulting internship interviews begin the second month of a program. For reference purposes, I graduated from a top-10 school.
Assume that the student doesn’t have clear picture of what he wants to do after MBA. This poll is for a guidance from real professionals giving open opinion on different streams of MBA!
Does he need visa? If yes, BA specialization counted as sTEM degree
Marketing - this should have good coursework including consumer behavior, tons of framework related to product. DM me. Happy to help.
Best advice I was given is do the opposite of your undergrad in terms of left brain/right brain. You'll have an edge anywhere. Computer science and marketing are a good combo.
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PM has a heavy marketing component to it. Finance management and lean operations isn’t meaningful.
Thanks. But why do you think it is not meaning full?
You’ll gain enough finance tools in your normal MBA coursework to be effective as a PM. Finance management is likely for people who want dedicated finance careers. That’s not you (if you want to be PM). Same reply for operations. You’ll get plenty of understanding in the foundational coursework.