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The Top 5 Reasons why an MBA will help you break into McKinsey

Management Consulted

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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The Paradigm of Prestige

CaseInterview.com

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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Why Do Management Consulting Firms Hire MBAs?

Steve Shu Consulting

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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3 ways financial advisory consulting bests strategy consulting

Management Consulted

From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of exit opportunities, strategy operations consulting far surpassed financial advisory consulting as our recommended career to pursue. Find it here: 5 reasons to choose strategy operations over financial advisory consulting. Missed part one? Well…sure.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Public Policy.

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The Consulting Bible – Dominate Your McKinsey, Bain and BCG Fit and Consulting Case Interviews

Management Consulted

Do you sweat when nervously thinking about how Disney can expand its operations in Brazil? Learn more about the interview preparation course and guide that helped land offers at BCG, Accenture, and McKinsey. Why you shouldn’t believe McKinsey when they tell you the purpose of the group interview (pg. Click to purchase

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

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.