2016

Career Statistics

The skills to know

The confidence to act
The humility to lead

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 Expeditions. 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 66% Salary

• Technology/Media 24% Average $ 120,140 (€ 108,549)
opportunities • Pharmaceutical/Healthcare 19% Median $ 115,399 (€ 104,267)
• Manufacturing 12% Sign on bonus $ 24,176 (€ 22,149)
• Consumer Products 5%
% that received a sign on bonus: 73%
• Transportation & logistics 2%
• Chemicals/Energy 2%
• Leisure/Travel 2%
IMD MBAs 76%
Consulting 26% Europe
go around
8% 11%
the globe Americas Asia
5%
Africa/ Middle East
Financial
Services 8%

97% of the class changed function, industry or geography.

Career 82% changed two or more dimensions of their career.
changes Function 81%
48% changed all three dimensions.

Industry 76%
97%
82%

48% 71%
Geography
 Examples of Associate Director – UBS Switzerland AG – Switzerland
post-graduation CEO* Program Associate – Siemens – Germany
jobs Chief Financial Officer – APT Advanced Potash Technologies – United States
Chief of Staff to the CEO – Terumo Corporation – Japan
Chief Operating Officer – Pyramid Pharma – Tanzania
EMEA Strategic Project Manager – Johnson & Johnson – France
Global Product Manager – Hilti – Liechtenstein
Global Senior Product Manager – KaVo (Danaher Group) – Germany
Global Strategic Buyer Chocolate – Nestrade SA – Malaysia
Market Development Manager – BD – Switzerland
Senior Manager Commercial Excellence – Coloplast – Denmark
Senior Product Manager – Amazon – Luxembourg

REAL LEARNING. REAL IMPACT

Overview of Top hiring companies:

recruiting Amazon | Danaher Corporation | McKinsey & Company | Roche |
companies Samsung | The Boston Consulting Group

Companies that A.T. Kearney Esko Oliver Wyman

participated in a-connect Expedia One Acre Fund
on-campus recruiting Aenova Holding GmbH Falconi Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
and companies AlixPartners Ferring Pharmaceuticals Open Capital Advisors
that made at least Amazon Fungible Ornua
one offer to the Apollo Agriculture Galderma Osram Opto Semiconductors
IMD MBA participants Advanced Potash Technologies Genioo Philip Morris International
Ariston Thermo Group Giant MFG Co Ltd ProSiebenSat1 Media SE
Arthur D. Little Harman International PwC
Audi Consulting Hilti Pyramid Pharma
Bain and Company Hirslanden Radiometer
Barclays Bank Suisse (AG) Honeywell Redavia
BASF IBM Roche
BD Implement Consulting Group Royal Dutch Shell
Boehringer Ingelheim Irrawaddy Green Towers Royal Vopak
Booking.com Janssen Ruhrpumpen
Borealis Johnson & Johnson Samsung
Boston Scientific KaVo See Your Box
BDC KerrHawe SA Sentient Science
Capgemini Klinik im Park Siemens
Check24 Holding GmbH L.E.K. Consulting Sprinklr
Cisco LafargeHolcim Stolt Nielsen
Coloplast Leica Microsystems Strategy&
Congo Express Lilly Swiss Re
Coty Inc. Living Goods Syngenta
Credit Suisse Mahindra Tectus Group
Contact us CVC Brasil Operadora Man AG Terumo Corporation
Danaher Corporation maxon motor The Boston Consulting Group
MBA Career Services Dell McKinsey & Company Thermo Fisher Scientific
Chemin de Bellerive 23 Deloitte Microsoft TOTVS
P.O. Box 915 Dr Consulta M-KOPA Solar Uber
CH - 1001 Lausanne Edwards Lifesciences Corporation Nestlé UBS
Switzerland Emendo Nestrade SA Videojet
Direct line: +41 21 618 03 39 Ericsson Nissan Werfen
mbatalent@imd.org Ernst & Young Nobel Biocare X-Rite Pantone