Do I need an MBA to jump from an agency / consulting firm to a pharma marketing / commercial strategy role? Seems like everyone either started as a rep or got their MBA…

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Agency and consulting are very different for this IMO. If you’re in life sciences strategy consulting, can likely get into commercial from that. Agency would be more challenging.

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I just went from agency to commercial marketing. Don’t have mba.

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