Management Consulted
AUGUST 28, 2016
Do you need to have an MBA to break into McKinsey? The short answer is no – you do not have to have an MBA to break into McKinsey. Didn’t Michael Wolf, former Director of McKinsey’s Global Media & Entertainment Practice, do it with a BA in international politics from Columbia? McKinsey hires MBAs – it’s a fact.
Steve Shu Consulting
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Prior to my current role, I spent many years in the traditional management consulting space. As I see it, the traditional segment of the management consulting industry values MBAs primarily because it facilitates a plug-and-play kind of model where people are interchangeable and can start working on a broad swathe of business problems.
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Management Consulted
MARCH 29, 2015
Today we get a sneak peek into a former McKinsey consultant’s first year of life at the firm. and asked a few questions about her time at a non-core school, breaking into McKinsey, and her early career to find out what McKinsey life was like for her. How was settling in at McKinsey for you?
Management Consulted
APRIL 20, 2016
MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you. Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University. The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey.
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 16, 2008
The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time.
CaseInterview.com
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
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CaseInterview.com
APRIL 30, 2019
Yes, I think it is, but you can't always manage it when you want to manage it. I worked in the New York Office at McKinsey and in general, people in New York work much harder than they do in other cities around the country. At McKinsey, we went to the client four days out of every week - virtually no exceptions.
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