MBAs for Energy

Previously made the jump from a large consulting shop (Enel, SE, Siemens) and moved to the supply side as an originator.  I always thought I would go back to school and get an MBA from a University that specializes in energy.  The majority of people on the trade floor just have a bachelors degree.  Anyone have an MBA or know of someone with an MBA that was able to differentiate themselves at a trade shop?  Seems like it isn't valued as much as it would be in other industries.  

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Not an MBA but I did get a masters in economics with an oil and gas focus. It has helped me tremendously in my trading career and I think it would help most people if they were interested in the data science side of things. After the masters I was doing the typical trading route (analyst, scheduling, traded a small book for a bit) but then I slowly started to leverage the data science skills I learned with the masters to do more and more analytics type projects to help the trading org make decisions. My day to day now consists of creating trading strategies that I trade myself and leveraging internal/external data to help the physical traders make certain decisions. Having a trading background and knowing the statistics and data science to put data together to tell a story/help make trading decisions seems to be pretty rare.

 

Been on trade floors most of my life.  I have an MBA. I didn't need it but it helped in the managerial alongside the financial aspect.  Trading?  Not at all.

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