2018
Career Statistics
The IMD MBA develops top talent with:
• a proven ability to perform
• the experience to deal with ambiguity, complexity and cultural diversity
• the skills to set strategies
In addition to the business basics – taught in any MBA program – responsible leaders need to
consider the context in which they make decisions, to anticipate both short-term and long-term
consequences, and to build and sustain relationships.
IMD MBAs learn these skills through real-life experiences such as the Entrepreneurship Projects,
the International Consulting Projects and the Discovery Expedition. IMD’s combination of relevance
and rigor is part of the reason why companies come to recruit at IMD and why the IMD MBA
program consistently ranks among the best in the world.
Diverse Industry 72% Salary
• Manufacturing 24% Average $ 135’635 (€ 114’886)
opportunities (€ 107’760)
• Consumer Products 16% Median $ 127’249
• Technology/Media 12% Sign on bonus $ 28’329 (€ 23’995)
• Chemicals/Energy 7%
% that received a sign on bonus: 77%
• Pharmaceutical/Healthcare 5%
• Non-Profit 2%
• Real Estate 2%
• Transportation &
Logistics Services 2% 74%
IMD MBAs Europe
• Other 2%
go around
Consulting the globe 7%
23% 12% Asia
Americas
5%
Africa/ Middle East
Financial
Services 5% 2%
Australia/Oceania
Career changes Industry Function Geography
75% 68% 67%
95% of the class changed function, industry or geography
82% changed at least two dimensions
Examples of APAC Management Associate - Boston Scientific - United States
post-graduation jobs Associate - Mckinsey & Company - Panama
CFO MEA Region - CO-RO - United Arab Emirates
Customer Strategy and Value Manager - Workday - Switzerland
Finance Excellence Program - Siemens - Germany
General Manager - Uber Eats - Brazil
Global Product Manager - Hach (Danaher Group) - Switzerland
Global Product Manager - Hilti - Liechtenstein
Global Strategist - Samsung GSG - Republic of Korea
Industry Value Creation Associate, Healthcare - Partners Group - Switzerland
Senior Data Scientist /Analyst - Amazon - Luxembourg
Senior Strategic Marketing Leader - Honeywell - Switzerland
Strategy Consultant - Royal Dutch Shell - The Netherlands
Overview of Top hiring companies:
recruiting companies
Companies that A. T. Kearney Coty Inc. Mitsui Chemicals Inc.
participated in our Accenture Credit Suisse Group AG Mediterranean Shipping
recruiting activities and a-connect Danaher Corporation Company S.A
companies that made at
Adobe Inc. Dätwyler Cables GmbH Nestlé
least one offer to the IMD
MBA Participants Alstom SA Donaldson Company Inc. Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Amazon Dow Jones Industrial Average Oliver Wyman
AMMEGA Exprivia s.p.a. Olympus Europe
ANZ Esko Singtel Optus Pty Limited
APRA Ernst & Young Partners Group AG
AXXA CORP Facebook Philip Morris International
Bain & Company Fertilizantes Tepeyac S.A. De Puma Energy
Baldan Group C.V. Roland Berger
BASF First Abu Dhabi Bank Royal Dutch Shell plc
Beaulieu International Group FMO Samsung GSG
Beckman Coulter General Electric Company Schindler Group
BHGE Genpact Service NSW
Biltema Grundfos ServiceNow Inc.
BMW AG Hach Sheffield Forgemasters
Boral Limited Hilti Siemens
Borealis Honeywell SoftBank Group
Boston Scientific Corporation Fondation Inartis Store One AG
Charter Fund Inc. ISP Group The Boston Consulting Group
China Resources Land Limited Jabil Inc. TOPDesk
Discover more Cochlear Limited L.E.K. Consulting Uber Eats
www.imd.org/mba Cognite AS Leica Microsystems Voyager
Cognizant Lonza Group Wärtsilä Oyj Abp
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Macquarie Group Limited Werfen
For more information Consolidated Edison Inc. Mammoet Workday, Inc.
please contact: Continental AG McKinsey & Company World Economic Forum
[email protected] or Contovista AG Mexichem
call +41 21 618 02 98 CO-RO Microsoft
