<p>Finance or Marketing for future career in Business Strategy/Development or Product Management preferably in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries?</p>
<p>Also, for entry into this career which do you think is a better route; consulting or corporate hire? I have 10 years engineering experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry (well, 1 year medical device, the rest is in big pharma/biotech).</p>
<p>Finance or marketing. Which do you like better ?</p>
<p>My niece is graduating this year with an MBA and she just accepted a job offer in product management with a pharmaceutical company in their consumer healthcare division.She got that job through campus recruiting.</p>
<p>If you want to do product management or business strategy, why do you need to do consulting or corporate hire, why can't you just apply directly for those positions?</p>
<p>Japher, I know that you are attending a part time MBA program. Are you able to participate in their regular MBA campus recruiting?</p>
<p>Yes, I am able to participate in the campus recruiting and I know Eli Lily comes. </p>
<p>I think I like Finance better. You don't think it matters?</p>
<p>I was thinking direct hire was applying straight to the company.</p>
<p>My niece was doing consulting before MBA but landed a marketing/product management internship with a tech company in consumer products last summer. That helped her land a job in product management.</p>
<p>I think it is tough for career switchers in part time MBA programs simply because you are not able to work in an internship; or can you?</p>
<p>I posted a thread on the intership a while ago and got no responses. But, that doesn't matter. </p>
<p>When I started the program my goal was to quit the job I had and take an internship for the summer before I graduated (I'm due to graduate this December, so that would be this coming summer). However, last May I was laid off from my job and was without work for 3 months, so that ate up some of my savings. Now that the economy is the way it is I don't think it would be smart for me to quit my current job for an internship, since I have a wife and two kids to support. </p>
<p>When I graduate in December I will have a MBA but will not have a concentration, per se; business management. However, I can continue for another 6 months to a year and get a concentration (full time for 6 months, a year for part-time). So, if the economy is picking up at the end of the year I might try and find another job and go part-time if it's not I will just stay where I am and go part-time. I think, regardless, next year will be a better time for an internship. Agreed? Is it possible to do an internship after graduation?</p>