Elite business-school students once set their sights on a Wall Street or management-consulting career. Now, however, The Wall Street Journal reports MBAs have a new desired destination: Amazon.
The Seattle-based retail giant is now the top recruiter at the business schools of Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University and University of California, Berkeley, and it is the biggest internship destination for first-year MBAs at the University of Michigan, MIT, Dartmouth College and Duke.
All told, Amazon has hired roughly 1,000 MBAs in the past year, according to Miriam Park, the company’s director of university programs. That’s a drop in the bucket for a company planning to add 50,000 software developers in the next year, but at business schools, the scale of Amazon’s hiring has upended campus recruiting and stymied other companies that rely on B-school hires.
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