<p>So I have no interest in finance. My primary interest in business school is so I can actually manage and lead an organization.</p>
<p>I know that HBS is the superstar school for general management, but as getting into HBS is rather hard (at least I got to the interview round, hooray!), I'd like to know what other schools are good for general management.</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, Kellogg, Tuck, Wharton, MIT and Berkeley are great GM schools within the U.S.</p>
<p>You can get great GM skills from any of the T15 and can get excellent opportunities in recruitment from fortune 100 companies within the T15 for GM development programs.</p>
<p>Forgive my possible ignorance, but can someone experienced explain how one goes straight from an MBA program to a “management” role? What company would trust a kid with 5 years of work experience and some “management classwork” with actually managing certain operations of a company? Don’t you have to prove yourself first (i.e. through a finance-, marketing-, or strategy-type role)?</p>
<p>why don’t you check out the USNWR rankings for management</p>
<p>[Management</a> - Best Business Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/management]Management”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/management)</p>
<p>It’s a pretty good ranking of management, although some of the top 10 management schools are finance heavy (Wharton, Tuck, Columbia). Kellogg is a marketing school.</p>
<p>MIT-Sloan is by no means a good management school. It’s reputed to be finance heavy. It’s very good in logistic (LGO program)</p>
<p>The strength of an MBA program lies in primarily in networking and less on the strength of its actual academic curriculum. General Management does not really have strict recruiting policies like Consulting or Investment Banking and any top 10-15 program will do you well since general management is also far less competitive then the aforementioned two industries.</p>
<p>MIT actually sent 7% of its MBA grads last year to General Management/Leadership Development Program’s which is quite large comparatively with respect to other top MBA schools.</p>
<p><a href=“http://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/fullreport07_08.pdf[/url]”>http://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/fullreport07_08.pdf</a></p>
<p>Kellogg has 6% of its students go into General Management/Leadership Development Programs. Also Kellogg is famous for marketing but they are amazing for consulting opportunities and have had pretty good showing with general management opportunities especially in the South East Asia region.</p>
<p>[Employment</a> Statistics of Kellogg Graduates, Full-Time MBA Program, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/fulltimemba/why_kellogg_mba/employment_statistics.aspx]Employment”>Full-Time MBA Career Path | Kellogg School of Management)</p>
<p>Harvard has 4% of its students go to Leadership Development and 10% into General Management. </p>
<p>[Career</a> Hiring Data - MBA Recruiting - Harvard Business School](<a href=“http://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/resources/career.html]Career”>http://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/resources/career.html)</p>
<p>Here is a very extensive list of companies with General Management/Leadership Development programs,</p>
<p><a href=“https://www4.mbafocus.com/careernet/resources/cp/cp_gm_050707.pdf[/url]”>https://www4.mbafocus.com/careernet/resources/cp/cp_gm_050707.pdf</a></p>
<p>Unlike in top firms in consulting and Investment Banking, companies looking to hire into general management recruit from a wider range of business schools.</p>
<p>-giants92
Before getting into BSchool, you have to show your leadership progression, usually in the form of promotions or to a management role. 5 years work experience quite a long time to not have been in some sort of management/supervisory role for many industries actually. </p>
<p>Development programs are just that though, they are 12 to 24 month programs that ‘develop’ you into a successful manager for the firm. </p>
<p>Also funny you mention ‘kid’ and the fact that with 5 years work experience and a 2 year MBA a person would be around 29-30 years old starting these management development programs :)</p>
<p>I suppose I made that comment with mainly IB and consulting in mind – a post-MBA position in those fields, such as an IB Associate or a 1st-year-out-of-MBA consultant, isn’t exactly a management position. When I think of management positions I think of IB MDs and consulting Engagement Managers, which take several years of post-MBA experience to attain. In MDs and EMs eyes, it seems like 29-year-olds are kids. Even outside of those fields, for example F500 companies, it seems like you would have to work for several years to understand the intricacies of the company before you enter of position where you run the show. I suppose “management” has varying levels, though.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help…I guess I’ll have another shot at HBS and go for Wharton, Stanford, and Columbia as well (filtering out schools that I plain don’t like, clearly)</p>