A World of Difference. Harvard Business School offers a two-year, full-time MBA program with a general management curriculum focused on real-world practice.

What does a Harvard MBA get you?

Financial services, consulting, and technology are now the top industries for most HBS MBAs. For many of the around 900 MBAs who graduate every year from HBS, “making a difference” is a life mission. Here, we look at the career paths of a few of them, some usual and some unusual.

What degrees do most billionaires have?

The most common degree among the top 100 billionaires is economics at 16. Computer science ranks next at nine. Jeff Bezos and Sergey Brin of Google fall into this category. Next is electrical engineering at 5, the same number as mathematics.

Is MBA job stressful?

The MBA will be far more hectic than your undergrad. This is true irrespective of the college. So be ready for sleepless nights, multiple simultaneous deadlines, a few failures and stressful times. Also, there will be a lot of people far more intelligent, hard-working than you.

Is studying MBA difficult?

MBAs are challenging but not difficult to graduate. Many potential students ask if an MBA is too difficult for an average student. In short, an MBA is as difficult as you make it, and is as rewarding as you invest in it. In the business world, there is rarely any hand-holding.

How do you get a 5.0 GPA?

A 5.0 generally indicates that a student took only 5.0-scale classes and earned only As (and/or A+s). Normally, all perfect straight-A grades result in a 4.0; with weighted classes, though, perfect straight-A grades could result in a 5.0 (or even higher).