Case Examples of Empirical Research Methods As Related to Consulting Firms
Steve Shu Consulting
JULY 27, 2022
McKinsey article, “Not enough comps for valuation? This post will be updated from time to time.
The Top 5 Reasons why an MBA will help you break into McKinsey
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.
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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey
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?
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Strengths Multiplied
CaseInterview.com
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
If someone I work with is fabulous at sales but terrible at finance, when we work together, I benefit from their talent in sales, and they benefit from my talent in finance. He was terrible at supply chain management, finance, and managing foreign exchange currency risk.
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Why Do Management Consulting Firms Hire MBAs?
Steve Shu Consulting
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Management consulting projects can span diverse areas from operational to finance to marketing to strategy to IT management, etc. investigate careers at Digital McKinsey or BCG Digital Ventures). There are other modern, consultative models emerging. And the models don’t need to be exclusive.
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The Paradigm of Prestige
CaseInterview.com
OCTOBER 23, 2021
It is also, frankly, an implicit promise of joining a company like McKinsey. What is said jokingly in a Harvard Business School finance class is that the most important thing you need to know about finance is to hire a CFO… from Wharton. It is the default premise of many country, company, and academic-institution cultures.
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The Ups and Downs of a Career in Consulting
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 20, 2023
Every year thousands flock to apply to top consulting firms such as McKinsey and Company, Bain and Company, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Consulting accelerates growth for ambitious careerists The learning and development opportunities afforded at MBB (the affectionate initialism given to McKinsey, Bain, and BCG) are pretty insane.
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The Consulting Bible – Dominate Your McKinsey, Bain and BCG Fit and Consulting Case Interviews
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Learn more about the interview preparation course and guide that helped land offers at BCG, Accenture, and McKinsey. We’ve helped 1600+ people land interviews and offers in the consulting world (including such esteemed firms as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte and Mercer). Click to purchase !
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The Elitism Machine
CaseInterview.com
JANUARY 31, 2022
If you get into Harvard Business School (HBS), you’re implicitly taught that you don’t really need to take the finance classes very seriously. This could be a family culture, a regional culture (Wall Street, Silicon Valley), or an organizational culture (Yale, McKinsey). If you see elitism in this way, it’s incredibly liberating.
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Impact of Marketing Consultants
Business Consulting Agency
JANUARY 2, 2024
Avoiding Costly Mistakes Mistakes in marketing can be costly, both in terms of finances and reputation. Statistic: McKinsey & Company found that companies with personalized marketing strategies achieved three times the average annual marketing revenue growth.
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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
McKinsey & Company. Yes, the great McKinsey has its headquarters in New York, located at 55 E 52nd St on the 21st Floor. Founded in 1926, McKinsey now has its largest global office in New York with more than 500 consultants. Drum roll… 1. The Boston Consulting Group.
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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting
Management Consulted
APRIL 20, 2016
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. In fact, McKinsey has hired over 215 Kellogg graduates over the last 5 years, including 34 from this most recent class. 2015 class size: 826.
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Breaking into Consulting as a Non-Business Student
Tom Spencer
MARCH 3, 2023
For instance, McKinsey is known to place a particularly strong emphasis on personal impact and leadership. An MBA program will provide you with a strong foundation in business principles and give you the opportunity to specialize in areas like strategy, marketing, or finance. Keep on Trying!
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Dinged From MBB Consulting Firms – Now What?
Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
If you are an undergrad who has been turned down for a summer internship at MBB, going in to finance is your next best bet. In addition, having a finance internship under your belt shows that you’ve got the necessary quant skills to succeed in consulting. For the Pre-MBA level, finance should be your last option.
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How to Handle Rejection from a Consulting Firm
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 31, 2020
According to Business Insider , the odds of getting hired by McKinsey & Company are less than 1%, although this is not unique to McKinsey. Reading Time: 4 minutes. To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. Refine Your Search.
The Smartest Person in the Room
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 20, 2021
You want your CFO to be infinitely more experienced in finance than you. When I first started working at McKinsey, wow, it was a humbling experience. That year, McKinsey rejected 98.5% You want your general counsel to be far more competent in the law than you. of Stanford undergraduates who applied.
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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking
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. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.
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3 ways financial advisory consulting bests strategy consulting
Management Consulted
JULY 22, 2013
In compliance work, or on finance-focused projects, the broad-sweeping projections of strategy consulting don’t cut it. As mentioned in our previous post, financial consulting is a much better choice than a narrowly-defined role in internal finance (especially at a no-name corporation).
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Each Firm's Favorite Cases
CaseInterview.com
JUNE 13, 2019
So, does BCG give M&A questions while McKinsey gives business cases? For example, McKinsey Houston I've heard has more Oil & Gas cases than say McKinsey New York City - which has more finance, media, and retail cases. If they work in high-tech, you'll get a high tech one, etc.
From Bagging Groceries to $80k Consulting Offer
CaseInterview.com
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
While not as prestigious as Mckinsey or BCG, the firm is top in its field when it comes to [ Person's Favorite Industry ] consulting, and that focus was what I was looking for. I spent the last five months working in a grocery store after having turned down several job offers in finance and banking upon graduation last May.
Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story
Management Consulted
AUGUST 1, 2013
And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Risk Management – assists CFOs and other finance executives on matters of finance and risk, global risk and trading, and compliance and governance.
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201 Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom
CaseInterview.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Business A can be profitable if it grows revenues enough to cover the non-product-related operating costs (such as sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and human resources). The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales.
Succeeding at the Edge of Discomfort
CaseInterview.com
DECEMBER 4, 2019
At McKinsey, just as I got comfortable with a particular kind of skill, my engagement manager would give me new harder work that I had never done before. In my entire time at McKinsey, I was NEVER comfortable EVER. Ran a finance organization? Once I got the basics of analysis, they had me manage clients. Got good at sales?
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68 What to Do After the Consulting Firm Offer
CaseInterview.com
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
I know you have done an excellent job during your time at McKinsey. In my first two years at McKinsey, I engineered a $1 billion divestiture for one of my clients - if I didn't do the work, they wouldn't have done it. Thank you! I also understand this is just a new start. There are a lot more challenges in actual work.
List: Global Strategy Firms 2013
Tom Spencer
JULY 22, 2013
Founded in Chicago in 1926, McKinsey is arguably the world’s most prestigious consulting firm. McKinsey has 102 offices worldwide including Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bombay, Johannesburg, London, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. The below list will be of interest to you if: you want to work for a leading strategy firm, or.
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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Boston
Management Consulted
JULY 2, 2017
” In fact, 2 of the MBB (McKinsey, Bain and BCG) elite firms, Bain and BCG, have their headquarters in Boston, MA. McKinsey : McKinsey, usually the big brother to all other consulting firms in other environments, has a long history but a small presence in Boston. In the Boston office, they are only ~100 employees.
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Why “Dumber” People are More Successful than You
CaseInterview.com
MAY 9, 2019
Fifteen years after high school, he has the same job (in venture capital) that my Stanford and McKinsey friends have. When I became an entrepreneur, I was by far the person with the most elite academic credentials amongst my peers (these were small businesses without venture capital financing). I was nowhere near the most successful.
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2015 Management Consulting Salaries – Undergraduate, MBA, Interns and More
Management Consulted
JANUARY 4, 2015
McKinsey & Company. McKinsey & Company Undergraduate Salary. For McKinsey Research Analyst in Poland: €22,000 base. For McKinsey Consultant in Poland: €50,000 base. McKinsey & Company MBA Salary. 11,000 McKinsey: $12,500 Oliver Wyman: $12,500 + $2500 signing (10 weeks). Bain & Company.
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Networking 102: It’s Never Been More Important – And It Truly. Does. Work.
Management Consulted
JUNE 10, 2009
Finance-Specific Networking. What do you think about non-finance work graduate school, then transitioning through an MBA? What about PhD to MBA to finance?”. Is it good for you if the McKinsey recruiter knows you’re applying for BCG, Bain, other consulting firms?”. Linked-In Networking.
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2 Years of Networking Results in Consulting Job at PwC
Management Consulted
APRIL 20, 2014
I ended up using some of the books off your site’s recommended reading list – The McKinsey Way , How to Get Into the Top Consulting Firms , and I bought the Consulting Interview Bible. I then took another internship in finance with Merrill Lynch. My senior year I continued my work as a research assistant.
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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia
Tom Spencer
MAY 31, 2012
Founded in Chicago in 1926, McKinsey remains one of the world’s most prestigious consulting firms. It is worth noting that, as at May 2012, McKinsey continues to receive negative publicity due to the ongoing Rajat Gupta insider trading scandal. McKinsey operates in 98 locations worldwide. [Last Updated: 31 May 2012].
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Job Hub: Culture and Jobs at Google
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 23, 2016
If you onboard with Google doing strategy, you could find yourself working on mergers & acquisitions, operations, or even corporate finance in different business areas. 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. It’s one of those rare places where you won’t get pigeon-holed into a specific area of expertise.
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100 How a C Player Becomes an A Player
CaseInterview.com
DECEMBER 3, 2019
In assessing career performance, I tend to look at three factors underlying performance (the first two came from my McKinsey days, the latter something I observed on my own): 1) SKILL. However, I did not know a lot about any one thing — like sales, finance or technology. It is also situationally dependent.
List of strategy consulting firms in London
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Its management consulting services include CRM, finance and performance management, process and innovation performance, risk management, strategy, supply chain management, and talent and organisation performance services. Address: McKinsey & Company. McKinsey provides management consulting services. Celerant Consulting.
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How to Balance Work and Life in Management Consulting
CaseInterview.com
APRIL 30, 2019
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. At McKinsey, my colleagues who had investment banks as clients by far worked the hardest.
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75 List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
McKinsey & Company. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. 30/F, One International Finance Centre. McKinsey & Company. Address: McKinsey & Company. Boston Consulting Group. Deloitte Consulting. Forum Corporation. Global Intelligence Alliance. Hill & Knowlton.
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107 Options for Post Consulting Careers
CaseInterview.com
OCTOBER 30, 2019
In my three years at McKinsey, I worked on close to a dozen such issues. Here are some examples of jobs and roles my friends took after 2 - 3 years at McKinsey. Keep in mind my colleague group started at McKinsey after undergraduate, so you'll see some go to grad school. He found that McKinsey on the resume was a liability.
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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 18, 2015
Kearney, which was the original split from McKinsey & Company, has a storied and impressive history. Kearney’s fascinating history begins with none other than current competitor McKinsey & Company. Founder Andrew Thomas Kearney was hired by James McKinsey as his firm’s first partner in 1929. 1963 – A.T.
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PARADE Method
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 26, 2019
It is probably a better example for use in the senior executive position that I interviewed for following my McKinsey days. As a freshman at Stanford, I was the Finance Director for the Stanford Solar Car project. 3) Role: Since I was the finance director, it was my responsibility and mine alone to find a solution.
2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney
Tom Spencer
MAY 15, 2014
Founded in 1999 by Tim Orton (ex-McKinsey), Nous Group has grown to be one of Australia’s most influential strategy firms. Founded in 1991 by Terrey Arcus and Fred Hilmer, two former Directors of McKinsey. Founded in Chicago in 1926, McKinsey is arguably the world’s most prestigious consulting firm. Pacific Strategy Partners.
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76 London School of Economics Postgrad Talks About Life At Deloitte
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
At the same time my roommate got an internship at McKinsey and he’s still working there now. Peter: When I was at Warwick, it was a massive feeder school into investment banking, and finance, but slightly less into consulting. However, actually, during the process it became very mundane. Peter: Sure.
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100 What are interviewers from consulting firms really looking for?
Tom Spencer
MARCH 9, 2019
Some firms, like the MBB (McKinsey, BCG and Bain) will go as far as requesting your GPA, test scores and the names of your undergraduate institutions. Min Kim is currently an MBA student at NYU Stern School of Business where she is specializing in Product Management, Business Analytics and Finance. Intellectual Capability.
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The Paths of Consultancy
Tom Spencer
JULY 7, 2018
Rice began her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company before serving in the Clinton administration, eventually moving her way up to being the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Over to the political spectrum, top politicians such as Mitt Romney and Susan Rice started as consultants.
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68 The Importance of Business Acumen for High Performance
LSA Global
MAY 9, 2019
It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Whatever position you hold in your organization, the more you know about the finances, the more you can offer your team.
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