Nature Consulting - MBA Futures (From Top-Consultant.com)

I have regularly posted on Top-Consultant for 7 months. I challenged consultants and recruiters, I learnt so much and my confidence has grown. The only post that was deleted from the forum:


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Was it too direct? Because I used the word cocky? I was back from Milan, where I helped my ex girlfriend setting up and shooting a TV program for the Discovery channel and I had exposure to the fashion world, I met the Italian director of the largest model management agency, I met a Russian model, an American stylist and many PR and press office people. I thought model management wasn't that far from management consulting afterall!



This is one of my favourite pieces. It was the time when the MBA marketing machine was really annoying too much:

Large consulting organizations have a big buying power compared to single consumers and the same could work for MBA seats. A large consultancy could identify a number of tier-2 fully accredited schools that are still not as expensive as Harvard but have the potential to grow in reputation over the next few years. They will then buy MBA seats for future years, lets take the year 2010 as an example. If an MBA at one of those schools cost 15K today, the large organization buying many seats in advance all together can get a price per seat of 10 or 12K for the year 2010.

These “Futures” can be then assigned to a number of new or existing employees as perks (like the Bupa healthcare or the pension). The employees will see the price of their MBA Future increase or decrease according to the business school reputation and the education market in 2010.

When the 2010 comes, after 3-4 years working with the same consultancy, the MBA Future can be disposed by the employee and either used, or sold in the MBA Futures market. Could this work?

Benefit for the Business schools is to get cash for investments now and create a bigger market for themselves, for the consultancies (knowledge intensive users) it is a strategic investment into the education market, for the employees it would be good to see there is going to be a prize for loyalty.