Does internal strategy ever hire, you know, internally?

and if so, from what kinds of roles? top business analysts, marketing, user/data analytics?

Which would be more useful for internal strategy:
1) Passing the Level II of the CFA® 2) Having strong data science skills

The business analysis and project management skills are already there. They just need to be proven first somewhere else in the organization.

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data science, easily. not sure why an internal strategy team would give a crap about CFA, as impressive it may be.

i currently work in a corporate strategy team and we hire exclusively bankers or consultants... and most other teams I know of operate the same way. i don't know of any non-bankers/consultants that work in a strategy team, but i have to assume that there is someone out there somewhere that used to be a BA beforehand

 

My questions concern more placement than performance; I'm not especially worried about my abilities to perform on a strat team. The questions with the CFA relate to whether CFA can help place into a corp fin position from which I could later move into strat.

Cartman, you're saying analytics is the better skill set, but I'm about 5 years into my career and want to break into strat. IB/Consulting are probably out at this point without first going back to school. Can an analytics-intensive role get me on a track that, in some not-too-removed universe, get me where I want to go? Would it do so more effectively than a corp fin role?

Do larger firms ever hire strat folks from smaller firms?

 

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