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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Is this model relevant to consulting ? The alternative is an Uber based model for consultants.

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Consultant Ninja: Reasons not to stay in Consulting: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Reasons not to stay in Consulting. Mrs. Ninja is also a consultant. Posted by Consultant Ninja. Labels: Bitterness , Consulting.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

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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What it’s really like at a top consulting firm: the good and the bad

Tom Spencer

Amid the intensity of recruiting for consulting, few stop to think what it will really be like once they’ve achieved their mission to get into a top-tier consulting firm. So, 10 months into my BCG career, I’m here to tell you what I view to be the 3 best and the 3 worst aspects of the consulting life. Bad #1: Hard Work.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service. That’s a lot of bending!

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How to Balance Work and Life in Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Is it possible to balance work and life as a consultant? Consulting is a client business. At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. Here is the reality. But I was never home.

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

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. MBB (Mckinsey, Bain, and BCG) usually want to meet in person for each round of interviews. Math Practice.