Internal strategy consulting and business development role for a Pharma company (with pay bump and working with senior leadership) OR stay in consulting. Want to get into PE long term. Thoughts?

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Pharma will suck the life out of you (showing my bias). R&D cycles eclipse most executive's tenure so incentives are super effed. But yeah, b school for mba.

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Big phat a or small / generic? If big pharmacy (e.g. Pfizer, Merck, Glaxo, J&J etc) take thebgig

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If you want to get but PE, go to business school. I would take the role as a stepping stone to that.

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Get going!

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@B1 absolutely agree and that's in line with what I am planning. Thanks for the insight.

Agree with B1. You might be able to network into PE as you work up in consulting, but a good pharma gig that shows progression plus a solid b school would be much better

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