BCG consultant Stephanie van den Boogaard is being sponsored by her company to study an MBA at HKUST. Here’s how business school is making her a better consultant. 

For many MBA graduates, management consulting is the ideal end-goal, with a career in consulting offering sky-high salaries and the opportunity to combine everything learned on an MBA to lead projects across an array of sectors and functions. But Stephanie van den Boogaard is already there. 

Pre-MBA: Consultant, KPMG India 
Post-MBA: Product Manager, Setu 

“The True New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike. 

“Some people would say an MBA can’t future-proof you, but I would argue it provides means to future-proof yourself.” by Sagar Sethi 

1. Accelerated MBA students spend less time out of the workforce 

Studying an MBA can take your career to the next level. But to do so, you’ll need to take time out of the workforce. 

Natasha Hsiao(Taiwan) 
Class of 2020 
Pre-MBA: Strategy and Insight Analyst, Japan Tobacco International 
MBA Internship: Project Consultant, BASF 

Pimolpat (Pauline) Thanusutiyabhorn (Thailand) 
Class of 2020 
Pre-MBA: Head of Business Development and Marketing, Thai B.B. Friut Co., Ltd  

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 "I wanted to make a direct scaled impact by helping companies execute their social responsibilities." By Stephanie CHOW  

- Transform, Soar and Thrive - 

Stephanie CHOW (Australia) 
Class of 2022 

This is particularly true in Asia, where businesses are at the forefront of developing and adopting revolutionary technologies, such as robotics. But, rapid technological development also makes workplace skills depreciate faster than in the past, as new technologies generate gaps in workers' skills.   

David Carreno Cerillo found his way to his dream city, Hong Kong, through an MBA, which also gave him the skills he needed to launch a global career.