A career in technology can come in many different forms. As a tech product manager, you will find yourself working within a myriad of different technical systems and skillsets. With a Chicago Booth MBA, you'll have the flexibility to craft an education that meets you where you are. Our flexible curriculum offers a space that helps you grow alongside the constantly evolving world of tech to push your acumen and career to the next level. A Booth MBA puts you at the forefront of the tech field, whether you are planning to work in healthcare, finance, retail, or beyond.
Kenny Bourgon: Product management is a really interesting role because it sits at the center of a bunch of different teams and so you get to work with a little bit of everything.
Zach Nerenberg: You have to be fluent in a bunch of different languages: engineering, design, business strategy. It's an exciting space to be in. The number one thing, why Booth is great for PMs is like the freedom to take whatever classes you want.
Kenny Bourgon: Application Development with Professor Betina is a pretty critical class that will make you empathize with the engineers who you're going to work with day to day.
Matheus Vervloet: Platform Competition with Austan Goolsbee, amazing professor and he taught me how to apply microeconomic concepts to business and more particularly platform businesses.
Zach Nerenberg: Like within 12 months of graduating we had like some problem at Amazon that we had to solve and I was like, I know exactly the right way to think about this and it was like concepts directly from that class.
Matheus Vervloet: Then Managerial Decision Making with Anuj Shah, focusing more on behavioral science, how people make decisions. I think that's gonna be very, very useful. I would credit my recruiting success through the Booth Technology Group. They did both panels and one-on-one interview preparation, resume reviews.
Prachi Kulkarni: They also work with the Kilts Center to put together a really popular event called the PM/PMM Workshop, where they get both alumni who are in those roles to come and do case interviews with first year and second year students.
Kenny Bourgon: Actually six months later when I did start interviewing, I relied a lot on the experience that I had in that workshop.
Prachi Kulkarni: I think Kilts is really good about connecting Booth students with a lot of alumni who work in the tech industry. They put together programming that not only helps you develop certain skill sets that are required to be a product manager in the tech space, but they also help you network and build a community with people within the tech industry.
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