More MBAs take jobs at tech firms

The percentages of MBA classes being picked up by Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, along with Adobe Systems, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn are more and more increasing. In 2007 tech firms hired just 13.1% of the graduates at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Last year, it was up to 30.7% of the graduating class. Even early stage companies are attracting elite MBA talent by tossing in stock grants and stock options in job offers. Last year, 9% of Harvard Business School’s class of 2015 joined startups, companies that have existed for only three or fewer years, many of them in tech. Continue reading