Thoughts on getting an MBA? Is it needed?

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Needed to brag about having an MBA? Yes. For basically everything else? Not really

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Assess what you want to do and where you are then evaluate what’s needed to close the gap. We can’t answer this for you without more information.

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Biggest values of MBA are credibility and network. If you can build either without it, then no you don't need it.

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Even though 90% of people in my practice have an MBA, the ones that don’t have the best path to early partnership. They hit senior associate at 23 as opposed to 28, and I’d much rather have a homegrown senior associate then a newbie MBA graduate.

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