I&#x27;m always skeptical about stuff like this. Sandberg&#x27;s springboard into her career was two-fold: working at McKinsey after HBS, and working under Larry Summers, who was her thesis advisor at Harvard UG. She went to Google as a VP after her stint in government.<p>There is a huge &quot;getting your foot in the door&quot; advantage to that credential. I can totally believe she didn&#x27;t use much of what she learned at HBS in what she did at Google. But would she ever have gotten that VP job at Google without that sterling resume?