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Applied Behavioral Economics Series 2023

Steve Shu Consulting

Current LinkedIn connections and prior students may also feel free to join an Applied Behavioral Economics slack channel. I will try to leverage an intersection between what I implement as a behavioral economics advisor in the commercial world and what I teach experientially in the classroom.

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Applied Behavioral Economics Rule of Thumb #5: Recognize the Possibilities and Perils of Anchors

Steve Shu Consulting

One area that I’d like my students to consider has to do with how they elicit information, especially during customer discovery research to determine whether a business is addressing a big problem that people have (e.g., On a scale of 1 to 10, to what extent would you change your current plans and consider X?

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Clever Side Hustles for Students and Aspiring Consultants

Tom Spencer

Feel free to scroll to the most relevant category for your current situation. You may also want to look towards campus organizations such as student government, which often offer stipend-providing positions for committee chairs and other important positions with weekly responsibilities. Undergraduate.

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4 Tips for Building Software Solutions at University

Tom Spencer

Being a student at university is a great time to build products that serve as a solution to problems the world may face. As a student you have access to incredible resources such as a community of likeminded peers, faculty and staff support, and financial resources like grants. Software solutions can tackle a broad range of issues.

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Why Trying to Pivot to a Consulting Career through an Online MBA Might Not be the Best Idea

Tom Spencer

For a few falls now, in my capacity as a volunteer career advisor, I have had to uncomfortably tell incredibly intelligent MBA students from highly respected schools that they are utterly ill-informed about entering the consulting profession. In-person MBA students don’t acquire most of their consulting industry knowledge from the classroom.

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How to Use Excel’s Nested IF Function

Tom Spencer

The TODAY function returns today’s date, and the YEAR function takes that date and outputs the current year. Imagine there is a group of students who have taken part in an exam. You have assigned the scores pictured below in column B and need to assign each student with a letter grade. Nested IF Function Examples.

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Consulting Career Pathways (Grad School to Consulting)

Tom Spencer

Historically, grad school students going into consulting came mostly from MBA programs, but there have been diversification efforts with other professional Master’s programs and PhDs becoming noticeably more prevalent. Student Debt Broadly speaking, grad school-sourced consultants have more student debt than those from undergrad.