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Administration positions within a company are very selective. I read that a big company (Chevron) hires only ~6 MBAs per year. So you have to be pretty top MBA grad to get into managing a big company.
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Managing big companies is not what most students at the top MBA programs will do; most of them will end up in financial services or consulting. For example, at Harvard Business School, 65% of the graduating students will take jobs in finance or consulting. At the Stanford GSB, the figure is 67%.
Career Salary/Bonus Data: Recruiting at Harvard Business School http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cmc/repo...7_detailed.pdf
In fact, it's gotten to the point where many MBA students view the managing of a large company as scut work that is done by those people who weren't good enough to get a job in finance or consulting (note, that's not my personal opinion; I'm just telling you what some other people think). As one HBS guy said, why manage a large company when you can be a financier or strategy consultant that
tells that large-company manager what to do?