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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

A fun fact – Jenny Rae was an economics major at UVA, but famously decided to shave her head and travel the world after graduation (yeah, her parents were really proud). Finance – A Finance degree not only shows that you’re proficient in math, but also implies you’re inquisitive and like to get to the root of problems.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Corporate Finance/Restructuring.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). Presently, I am working with a DoD program that is contracting with a company to build and operate a drug/vaccine manufacturing facility.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business

When she expressed surprise, they told her that her place was beautiful and very functional, but her price was far beyond what they would pay: code for “you overspent for the location and construction.” They were both naïve to think that creating a high-expense, polished operation would automatically enhance their business.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

However, they tend to have an intense lifestyle with lots of travel, face-to-face engagements, and long hours as a result. If you are interested in a career with a lot of travel, this could be a good place for you. Hours, though flexible, can still be long, and travel is a weekly reality. Employee Satisfaction. Of its $37.7