What's The Value Of A PPO? - Why Summers Are More Important Than Finals

From the point of view of a B-School, PPOs offered to the candidates of a particular B-School on account of their performance during their summer internships increase the reputation of a B-School because it is somehow also on account of the students of the B-School being able to apply their knowledge that they gained after one year of MBA that they are being offered a PPO. It shows that the students of the B-School are groomed well to face the corporate life that awaits them at the end of two years.

This is how valuable PPOs are, which is what makes the Summer Placements more important than Finals. Nevertheless, it is okay when candidates might have landed a summer internship in a domain that they might not be targeting. This would offer them a new experience of something they were not willing to try, and who knows, they might even end up liking it. Summers provide the students with an opportunity to present themselves to the best of their ability after just being three months into an MBA program. Therefore, the guarantee of a job with a company whose work culture, environment, functionalities and people one might already be familiar with during the course of summer internship makes a PPO all the more valuable.