Companies that would sponsor for grad school?

Hi guys:

do you guys know which consulting firms will sponsor for graduate school? I'm thinking about Econ PhD--I'm interested in international trade/international finance, and I think that having very high academic/research level knowledge of these things will definitely be beneficial to me and to the company.

how does this work? do they usually sponsor graduate programs or just MBA? do they usually sponsor fulltime or parttime?

Thanks so much!

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really? I've met people working on environmental science PhD at my school who were sponsored by their firm.

Also, how is knowing international trade/finance NOT a benefit to the firm? Globalization is happening and every firm needs someone who can work on the forefront of these issues, right?

 

Take this with a grain of salt because I don't know, but I would also assume that economic consulting firms (ie NERA, Analysis Group, FTI) would be more likely to sponsor your PhD because they need PhDs, whereas MBB doesn't need PhDs.

 
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