Tom Spencer

APRIL 24, 2016

Management consulting is a nice perch, but it is not for everyone. Many people go into consulting with a plan to gain a few years of experience and then apply for B-school or pivot into industry or entrepreneurship. Travelling sounds like fun, but travelling for work can be a double edged sword. (Source: Flickr ).

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

Is it possible to balance work and life as a consultant? Yes, I think it is, but you can't always manage it when you want to manage it. Consulting is a client business. Travel is hard on the lifestyle because you are just not at home. Traveling to the client often involves just taking a taxi or Uber.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

Consulting is a career where you hit the ground running. Having a clear direction and strategy for your career early on can grant you amazing advantages, but so can keeping your options open and exploring the opportunities offered by consulting. The joys of consulting. Consulting offers many attractive benefits.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2019

Consulting firm credit card use is changing. It used to be that a consultant could wrack up thousands of reward points a year on airline tickets alone, not to mention hotels, ground transportation, and food. The post Firm Credit Card Use Changes In 2019 appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

Dennis is an ex- Altman Vilandrie consultant who made a jump from consulting into the tech start-up scene. He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. Yeah, definitely. I started at Yale in 2008.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2018

Consulting firms are very good at selling themselves to potential recruits. In this post, I explore the other side of the value propositions presented by consulting firms during the recruiting process: “You will be exposed to a wide range of problems and industries”. insurance) or types of work (e.g. insurance) or types of work (e.g.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images. My experience is far from unique.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

This week, we bring you the Top 10 Consulting firms in New York – the power center of the world. If you are a New Yorker, just moved there with hope and zeal to conquer the consulting world, or are just looking for some world-class information on the top consulting firms in New York, here is what we have for you.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2018

If you are in your final year at university or you have recently finished your degree, there is a chance you are looking at jobs in management consulting. Consulting is not for everyone. No matter how set you are on a consulting career, it is still possible you won’t actually like the job. Stay flexible.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

We just love bringing you good reads, and today our spotlight turns to top consulting firms in one of our favorite cities in the U.S. So here they are: The top 10 management consulting firms in the very global, very dynamic, always-changing District of Columbia! – Washington, DC.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

For example, a multinational corporation might ensure accountability by appointing independent directors, conducting regular audits, and implementing a comprehensive risk management system. For example, project management platforms like Trello and Asana can allow teams to create virtual boards, assign tasks, and track progress in real-time.

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IMC USA

MARCH 15, 2017

Register Today for the 2017 IMC USA Consulting Conference! I am pleased to announce the IMC USA 2017 Annual Consulting Conference: Building Your Practice and Adding Value for Clients. The conference dates are October 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel. Learn more at our conference web pages.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

But if the new parent’s return involves business travel, and that parent has chosen to nurse, it’s even more complicated. While it’s common for new parents to feel stressed about juggling life at work and home, for a pumping, traveling parent the stress can be heightened. Become a Travel-Logistics Master.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

They are hard to manage and the data isn’t always as clean and useful as you’ll be told. I’d say that one program’s changes that do seem to have had an impact on purchase habits were the changes to the Marriott Hotels Bonvoy program. The challenge that loyalty programs face is that they are expensive to create.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. The facilitator, Caroline Dvorjak , was a marketing professor and a seasoned consultant. Tooga/Getty Images. No pruning necessary.

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Management Consulted

JULY 31, 2016

I exhibited the one dark downside of thinking like a consultant: paralysis by analysis. Sometimes, being a consultant is the worst. One of the privileges of owning my own consulting business is that I can now always answer that I’m traveling for business and pleasure.) The way I view the world often paralyzes me.

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SkillQuo

JANUARY 6, 2018

When should you hire one of the traditional Big 4 Consulting firms, and when and why should you consider a lean alternative? Management consulting is oftentimes largely unattainable for companies that need their services the most. A mid-level consultant with a junior analyst does the actual work. Board Approval.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 17, 2015

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Airbnb. They sought to create this type of connection experience for people everywhere when they traveled, and the idea for the bigger Airbnb was born. Expect to be pampered and taken care of by this company because from day 1 your benefits start.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

As a former advanced degree candidate who applied to consulting while finishing medical school, I would like to share my experience with those of you who are in the middle of making a similar jump out of academia. One of the nice perks of interviewing with consulting firms is that they will pay or reimburse all travel and lodging expenses.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

How did Charlie, a recent Harvard undergrad, navigate through the process of getting accepted to medical school and working for a biotech firm on the West Coast to finally finding his true passion in healthcare consulting (and landing an offer at Putnam)? as well as other general management and boutique firms in Boston.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30 participants/day, interactive w/breakouts) – we would be honored to meet with you.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. European Conference on Knowledge Management, 833. Creativity and Innovation Management, 21 (3), 304-314. Organizational Talent Consulting. Çokpekin, Ö., & & Knudsen, M. Doolittle, J.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2016

Travel bags are old news, but by redesigning the travel bag and connecting it with a user friendly iPhone app, the company has created the world’s first smart luggage and is re-imagining the travel experience. Mix things up – I am currently staying in a hotel in Beijing.

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Killer Consultant

MAY 1, 2015

Once upon a time, there was a consultant who had a family. I can still vividly remember my first consulting assignment, back then at a large high tech company. I can even remember the first day at that consulting firm, the first night in a hotel room, the first flight on corporate money. That would be me.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Becoming location-independent and traveling the world is more possible than ever. With the internet and a laptop, scores of professions that were once desk-bound — consulting, writing, researching, designing, and more — are now free to conduct business from around the globe. Try a travel pilot. Paul Axtell.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 3, 2021

Remember that all consultants are doing these video conferences with their clients right now. There are a few different ways that consulting firms facilitate video conference case interviews. Latency happens when you have a good internet connection (no signal loss) but a very long distance to travel (say halfway around the world).

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 6, 2020

Remember that all consultants are doing these video conferences with their clients right now. There are a few different ways that consulting firms facilitate video conference case interviews. Latency happens when you have a good internet connection (no signal loss) but a very long distance to travel (say halfway around the world).

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Instead of focusing on major hotel brands, they pursued the long tail, engaging with more than 1 million inns, B&Bs, and apartment buildings in 200 countries. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 1, 2019

Consultants who make money speak at conferences. I know I will speak, coach, consult. Is the request far enough in advance that I can manage the request? A conference that required international travel asked me to speak as a track talk about 45 days in advance. I'm not coaching or consulting. I love to speak.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 9, 2014

Robots Don''t Complain Robots don''t complain about working conditions or pay, but Fed consultants never noticed. Nor do Fed consultants investigate why the Fed''s inflation policy is not working as expected. Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. We will do so again.

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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. *. The room we started off at could only seat ~85 people and over 170 showed up to our Consulting Bootcamp Lite. No pictures!

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MAY 28, 2013

If there is one constant in consulting it is the production of deliverables. This is one of the first lessons in consultantese that new consultants learn. Deliverables are pretty much what we consultants do: Deliver stuff. Sales went up, and management got on board. Crazy Consultants. Consulting SME.

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