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Travel, Training and Mentorship

Tom Spencer

Three significant aspects in the life of a management consultant: travel, training and mentorship. When it comes to travel, different consulting firms have different policies. Bain and BCG often spend a lot of time with the client at the beginning and end of the project but less time in between.

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Final 2013 West Coast Adventures: Bain, Berkeley, and Stanford

Management Consulted

After spending the last 5 months traveling to top colleges across the planet ( Canada , U.K. , This time we visited the Bain office in San Francisco, held 2 bootcamps at Stanford, and 1 bootcamp at Berkeley. *. This time we visited the Bain office in San Francisco, held 2 bootcamps at Stanford, and 1 bootcamp at Berkeley. *.

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How I Started My First Consulting Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant

Management Consulted

This month’s Transparency Series article, How I Started My First Consulting Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant, is all about Jenny Rae’s renegade life and her first business that wasn’t a souped-up lemonade stand. and defined myself by my inability to do something of grandeur, I started small. Not every day was fruitful.

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How I Fell In Love With Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant

Management Consulted

If you haven’t read Part 1 or Part 2 of our Transparency Series (on Jenny Rae’s journey before, during and after Bain), make sure you start there – it will illuminate the back story to what we share here. We traveled to a mountain village in central Honduras and met people who changed our life. Enjoy! **.

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Why I Never Wanted to Be a Consultant: Confessions of a Bain Consultant

Management Consulted

This is Part 2 of a 12-part “Transparency” series, tracing Jenny Rae’s slightly crazy life from her early (5-year-old) roots in business to her travels and then to Bain and beyond. Plus, they expressed a preference for her to take a traveling companion – but they didn’t offer to pay for the buddy.

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Management Consulting

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This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. It actually follows the career of Mitt Romney, who worked at BCG, Bain and Bain Capital, but it gives an insider’s view of these firms as they were just starting.

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First Six Months – Adjusting to Consulting Life

Tom Spencer

Bill Nielsen graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business last June, and began working at Bain & Company in Chicago in September 2018. I’m on a local assignment, and while I may be around physically, the workload isn’t necessarily any lighter than it would be if I was travelling regularly.