What jobs are available with a degree in business? I do understand finance/accounting. I understand marketing/sales. I do understand economics / banks / Wall Street / hedge funds. My daughter doesn’t like any of it. Yet, she wants a business major. She wants to work with people (but not in Marketing / Sales).
Would it make sense to get a double major in STEM (probably, Biology) and Business with the idea of working in a business capacity (project manager, etc.) for some pharma/biotech/hospital/ ? Does it make sense?
She is strong in all STEM, except physics (physics is OK, but not great). Biology and Chemistry are excellent, but she is NOT planning Ph.D. or hands-on medicine. No experience in Computer Science (unfortunately, she missed it).
She likes business, but doesn’t want to “work with numbers all day long”. Accounting and investment banks are not for her.
Would you hire somebody with a double major in Biology / Business? If yes, in what capacity? What other combinations of majors are possible? She wants to work for a corporate world (big or small), work with people, make money, formal dress, nice office. 
Any suggestions?
A wide variety of corporate jobs would be available to her with a general business degree - customer service, project mgmt, HR, consulting, sales, marketing, etc. A minor or double major is fine but really not necessary unless she has the desire to take on another major. I would probably be more in favor of not taking on another major in an effort to get more immersed in her business major.
Forgot to mention that some business schools have a supply chain specialty which may interest her given her interest in project management.
I think (either through experience or classwork depending on the school) good facility with spreadsheets at a pretty deep level, and data analysis/stats, as well as at least some facility with computers will always be useful.
ETA: and the ability to interrogate and extract information from a database (SQL) would be a real plus.
Biology does not have great major-specific job prospects, due to the large number of biology majors.
She may want to get a broad education in other subjects, so that no matter what type of business she ends up working in, she can more easily understand whatever the business does.
I’d recommend your daughter look into technical schools that have business programs i.e. RPI Lally school ( there are plenty of others). These schools are trying to teach kids stuff to do with innovation and entrepreneurship, supply chain, biz and engineering combos, etc. There are some pretty neat programs. My son is like your daughter, wants to do biz as a career but not interested in finance/accounting. etc, but might like to get involved in consulting. Having a technical background along with business training could really help him he thinks.
What does she like about “business”? Start there.
Who wants to major in business, you or her?
I’m not sure what you are asking.
You can work for ESPN selling advertising time to large companies- that’s “business”. You can work for Neiman Marcus figuring out how many fur coats to send to your store in NY and how many bathing suits to send to the store in Palm Beach- that’s “business”. You can work for Pepsi figuring out if there is demand for a low calorie soda which would cost twice as much as current sodas- that’s “business”. You can work for Mattel negotiating agreements with film and tv production companies to make entertainment content using your toys and intellectual property-- and that’s business.
What exactly does your D like- what is she interested in? That seems to be a better plan than a “business major” with a Hail Mary Pass doing bio just because she’s a HS kid who likes bio.
Does your D have any interest in working in pharma or for a hospital?
My D doesn’t know what business she is interested in. She has to make a decision about her major (or at least a direction). She doesn’t know what she wants.
She doesn’t want medicine, academic research, and computer science. She doesn’t want to work in HR, Sales, and Marketing, because she doesn’t like to give people bad news (HR), fix somebody’s problems (HR), and receive multiple rejections (Sales). She doesn’t want to stretch truth (Marketing). She doesn’t want to sit alone all day long crunching numbers (Accounting, Finance, Econ).
She wants to have a nice salary, a nice office, and work with people. She thinks that Business major would help her. She is an A student from a STEM magnet school, so she knows math/science reasonably well.
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ETA: and the ability to interrogate and extract information from a database (SQL) would be a real plus. >
Double major in Statistics is possible. But she really want to avoid jobs, where one sits in front of the screen all day long crunching numbers. She is fine with numbers, but she is a social animal.
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Could you please advice the names of schools that have technical / business pipelines? Would really appreciate.
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She will, probably, be good in consulting. She is social, articulate, likes to wear suits, want to look like a business woman All the cool stuff they show on TV.
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What is a business without the substance? How could one consult a hospital without some basic knowledge of hospital procedures, for example. How could one sell software without understanding computer language? How could one manage an engineering project without any knowledge of engineering?
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As long as she has a nice salary and a nice office. I don’t think she really cares if it is a biotech, hospital, or a startup (OK, she understands that she would not have an office in a startup, she is OK with it).
Thanks for the RPI Lally school! Very interesting!
Seriously, you can answer questions all in one post. No need to make 10 in a row. It often loses people.
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Biology and business, but not number driven? I would suggest healthcare management. Biology and chemistry are common languages of medicine. My executive teaching experiences with medical doctors are that most of them really need managerial experts to run their daily business. Given that healthcare is expect to grow in a quite sustainable way for decades to come, healthcare management as a profession can be fruitful, IMHO.