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Ask HN: What do new MBA's do in tech? || Self-marketing via RE

2 pointsby 12y ago
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Short question: Various stats got tossed out that x% of Stanford's/Harvard's/Etc.'s graduating MBA class went into tech this/last year, instead of the 'normal' MBA fields (e.g., finance). What are the job titles these MBA's are winding up with?

Motivation, brief bio, see LinkedIn (profile) for longer: I did my Master's in electrical engineering, but turned to the dark side and went off to law school and spent a few years practicing as an IP/patent litigator. (Defending against trolls - the turn to the dark side was incomplete). I then got my MBA (Santa Clara, based in SV), and have been trying to find a suitable role in a tech company. I'm currently consulting as an electrical engineer in a biomedical company (mostly writing Matlab and Python for data analysis, plus designing measurement equipment), but would like to find something more permanent and, preferably, more interdisciplinary. I've yet to find an effective way of branding myself. I like hard problems, my programming skills are excellent for a business-type (mostly Python) but not what you'd want in a software engineer, and my best fit has traditionally been interfacing between tech-savvy and tech-unsavvy areas (e.g., engineers <==> lawyers). Excellent at wearing many hats, and very good in several specialties, but not a world-class expert in any of them. (Not looking to found a company, student loans necessitate cash flow). Hence, the initial question above, to figure out what exactly it is other generalists are landing in tech companies as.

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Business development in most cases i.e sales of ads, licenses or whichever unit(s) they use to make revenue.