article thumbnail

4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

article thumbnail

Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

McKinsey Offer from Top 200 University

CaseInterview.com

I had my eye on management consulting for some time, so I decided to give it a shot. I got in touch with her, she had me add my GMAT (770; I should have had it on all along) to my resume , and got me in touch with the recruiter. First, the top firms DO favor BBNs ( big brand names ) on the resume.

article thumbnail

2015 Management Consulting Salaries – Undergraduate, MBA, Interns and More

Management Consulted

Welcome to our Consulting Salary post – the kickoff to 2015! As you’ve been busy popping bottles of champagne, watching the ball drop while fireworks shoot up in the background, or just flat-out ambitiously working through the New Year holiday, we here at Management Consulted have had our version of fun. Number hungry?

article thumbnail

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

Management Consulted

I also dealt with reverse culture shock – the previous importance of everything in my life paled in comparison with the suffering and poverty I’d experienced in Ghana. I watched the recruiter put my resume to the side after I talked to her, and got a call within a few hours inviting me to interview the next day. business consulting'

Bain 100
article thumbnail

Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

HAY GROUP CONSULTING. In this firm profile, we do a deep dive into Philadelphia-based Hay Group, a darling in the boutique organizational consulting realm. Hay and Associates, Management Consultants.” This resulted in Saatchi Consulting, of which Milton Rock was the Management Director. Hay Group Revenue: $700M.

Groups 100
article thumbnail

Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

First, five points from the article I found interesting and then some comparisons to other areas of business. Misleading ads, inflated resumes, stories about high school athletic accomplishments (Glory Days as Bruce Springsteen called them), and many other things. This goes back to before the stock market crash of 1929. Conclusion.