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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

How in the world did Josh go from a PhD in cell and molecular biology to a job in federal consulting for The Tauri Group? Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 2)

Management Consulted

Today, we continue Part 2 (see Part 1 here ) of our interview with Charlie, an experienced Harvard grad who took an unusual path into healthcare consulting, yet leveraged his experience and hard prep work into an offer at Putnam. Do you know what their primary job is in consulting? They interviewer is going to get to pick.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Advisory Board Company is perhaps best known for its membership platform which provides information, research and tools specifically targeted to companies pursuing operational and strategic organization improvement in the U.S. The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services. Practice Areas.

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Managing Career Transitions

Brimstone Consulting

Take the time to write the answers down in a journal or somewhere where you can refer back to them. How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues? Even if you’re not actively looking for a job, take a few hours each year to update your resume. What kind of leader do you want to be? Download Now.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. That would only send them slipping out the door with updated resumes in search of positions more secure elsewhere. He lives with his family in Concord, Massachusetts.

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

Emerson Consulting Group

In a world filled with tweets, ever-breaking news, a thousand TV channels and podcasts galore, is there any point to toiling away at an article, then seeking a journal or magazine willing to publish it? That would only send them slipping out the door with updated resumes in search of positions more secure elsewhere.

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