When Anna Fuller finishes her MBA programme at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business next year, she will not work for a consultancy or bank, as many MBAs do. Instead, Ms Fuller will join Google as a product manager. In her previous career she was director of product for a company in the ecommerce industry.
“I’m attracted by how Google’s products can positively impact lives, such as Project Loon [a balloon-powered service] which could provide internet connectivity to people living in remote areas,” she says.
Ms Fuller is just one of a growing number of MBAs who are being lured into the technology industry. One-third of the MBAs who graduated from the Tepper school last year accepted job offers from tech employers, up from 21 per cent five years ago.