The Ultimate JD/MBA Thread (x-posted)

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>I've wanted to be a lawyer since I was a kid, but now I'm reading books like Law School Confidential and One L, and getting a more realistic perspective---and I'm not sure I want to do it. Law school doesn't sound like the intellectual bonanza I thought it would be, firm life sounds stifling, and I'm not really driven by money anyway so the high salary isn't that important to me.</p>

<p>My ambition is to be a CEO and possibly get into politics later on.</p>

<p>Should I get a JD/MBA? If not, what kind of person should get a JD/MBA?</p>

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<p>One example is Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has been the CEO for over 10 years I think, pretty long for a large company CEO.</p>

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<p>If anyone should get a JD/MBA it should be someone that wants to do business and politics..ala Mitt Romney. I don't see much other reason to do this.</p>

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<p>i also want to do the jd/mba i want to be a lawyer .but i want to practice business law.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know why Mitt Romney did the JD/MBA? Was it explicitly to go into politics? Or did it just come in handy later?</p>

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<p>I always figured it was just because he was such an overachiever. However, his father was the Governor of Michigan and I'd suspect that he got it with the idea that he too would some day go into politics.</p>