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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. Dropping these terms in interviews can be good, but only as a Master’s student, and only when appropriately practical.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing.

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The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. In the case of cybersecurity, some decision makers use the wrong mental models to help them determine how much investment is necessary and where to invest.

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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business

We visited and interviewed farmers in Italy, Germany, and the UK to find out why the platform had bombed. Surprisingly, the interviews did not reveal any unequivocal reasons for why farmers shunned the platform. Their relative value is remarkable across a variety of metrics, such as purchases and frequency of use.

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

As is so often the case, the smallest changes can have the biggest impact. Share these case studies with the team to encourage them to think about how a process change or new tool might be able to help with their job. Is real-time web traffic an important metric for the team to keep an eye on? Private and public recognition.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Robust training programs and fun company social life take the edge off hard work and long hours, but it’s “up or out” for consultants (“up or out” refers to the mentality that a consultant needs to reach a certain level in the company by a certain time or they could be let go). LEK operates in an intense, associate-heavy case team structure.