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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. The Boston Consulting Group. EY Consulting. The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked.

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How to Balance Work and Life in Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. This was not a deliberate choice, but I had the interest in the sector, I wasgood in certain aspects related to the finance industry, I liked my colleagues in that sector, and they and my clients liked me a lot. But I was never home.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 1)

Management Consulted

It started off with contacting – actually, I reached out to recruiters specifically and sent in my application, and they were mostly very quick to respond to me. Because sometimes, for example, for a great recruiter, that might actually matter more to them than it would to a junior level person. All for the Boston practices, exactly.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

Hotel bar @ 7? He led the finance team. Still, when just a few days after their drinks in the hotel, he’d asked her out on a “real date,” Elizabeth initially demurred, wondering if it was a good idea. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. Elizabeth: The whole gang?

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In the mid 1970s, as public opinion swayed toward greater accountability for the finance industry, Peat Marwick took steps to firm up controls on its accounting practice and increase transparency. Capabilities: Finance. Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. KPMG CONSULTING ORGANIZATION.