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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Which leads to our second point — although what you learn will be on a smaller scale than what the Fortune 500 would do (you’ll use less data, involve fewer people, and have much less at stake), you will start developing the ability to see what really matters (and what doesn’t) to the CEO of a company — profits, operations, etc.

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Consultant Marketing Trepidation To Elation

Jerry Fletcher

She already operates on one of the basic principles she will need to be successful: Trust but Verify. How do you take that resume out and convince someone to hire you as a consultant? Then he wrote a book about it. This simple statement which Ronald Reagan made popular comes from a Russian Proverb.

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An Unconventional Path: One Medical Student’s Journey Into Consulting

Tom Spencer

it doesn’t provide you with business acumen and healthcare policy fundamentals, nor does it prepare you for case and behavioral interviews, or teach you how to properly format a business style resume. I read all the major books, blogs, and resources out there. I was inserting mental math into every aspect of my life.

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Booz Allen Hamilton Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intelligence & Operations Analysis. Unlike Bain or LEK, the firm doesn’t restrict itself to junior hiring and you have a great opportunity to learn some grand consulting processes and get a brand name on your resume with absolutely no experience. Owen Nieberg – Chief Operating Officer – All About Braces.

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Booz Allen Hamilton

Management Consulted

Intelligence & Operations Analysis. Rohit Bhagat – Global Chief Operating Officer – Barclays Global Investors. Richard Gay – Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations – VH1 and CMT, MTV Networks. Paul Idzik – Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer – Barclays PLC.

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Double trouble…Launching the Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd Edition

Management Consulted

We had to up the ante…free ourselves from the confines of a book…so that we could blast open the most valuable vault in the history of consulting interview prep. We can finally tell you what’s in the Consulting Case Bank … Over 550 practice cases from a variety of b-schools, case books, firms, and interview rounds.

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

Publishing articles can promote your book. Do you wonder how to get the word out about a book you have recently published in addition traditional actions like book reviews and radio interviews? A great one is to carve text out of your book for use as a standalone article. Sales of your book increase as a result.

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