Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Travel is an alluring carrot that attracts many young people towards consulting. In this case, it’s best to leave early. Brace yourself.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. These companies had to do something.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

But over the last two years, as we interviewed over 60 business leaders, what we found is that this feeling never goes away. No matter how senior the person we interviewed, there was always a lingering doubt about the risks and consequences of speaking up. Which leads us to the second question: 2.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The space makes use of a set-up known as “hoteling,” in which staffers aren’t assigned a designated work space. The hoteling system in the building is also a great help for new mothers in the firm as they can schedule a room for privacy when pumping or even breastfeeding. Cool, or not? In one way, you’re permanently homeless.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

On our January 2014 Consulting Bootcamp tour, we travelled to several universities up and down the East Coast – Duke, Georgia Tech, UGA, Penn, Harvard, McGill, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell. *. After a full day (8 hours) of interview training, our group had bonded big-time. 10AM – 11AM – Structuring the fit interview.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

Bad #2: Travel. Roughly 80% of cases are travel cases. The glamour of travel gets old fast, and you’ll start to dread the Sunday afternoon cut short or the 5am Monday wakeup. The difficulty of weekly travel is rewarded by the experience that it brings – it’s hard to see the world from the comfort of your home.

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