Tom Spencer

MARCH 2, 2019

Amber Holzmeister graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business last June, and began working at KPMG Strategy in San Francisco back in August 2018. She shares with us some reflections on those first months of life as a strategy consultant, and offers some wisdom to demystify the transition for others.

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Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

With so much to worry about, some executives have been slow to place sustainability at the forefront of their strategy. A Global Shift Toward Sustainable Finance. Companies will be incentivized to shape revenue strategy around sustainability best practices. Purpose-driven Recruiting. A New Era of Sustainability Reporting.

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Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

With so much to worry about, some executives have been slow to place sustainability at the forefront of their strategy. A Global Shift Toward Sustainable Finance. Companies will be incentivized to shape revenue strategy around sustainability best practices. Purpose-driven Recruiting. A New Era of Sustainability Reporting.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 29, 2017

Have you missed the undergraduate recruitment window? Here are 6 ways to prepare for consulting as you wait for the next chance to drop that resume: 1) Go work for a brand name company, but do something that is sales, operations, or strategy related. Didn’t make the break you expected this year for careers?

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

Research has shown that attending an elite university can make or break a student’s chances of being recruited by the best firms ( whether or not that strategy makes sense for firms ). Since firms tend to recruit where they can find the most candidates, students in regions with many top schools may have a harder time being found.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

I then took another internship in finance with Merrill Lynch. I also explored other areas of finance and ultimately decided that I wanted to give investment banking a shot. This was a pretty ambitious goal considering no banks recruited from my school. My senior year I continued my work as a research assistant.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy. Public Policy.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I vividly remember the last consulting interview during first-year MBA recruiting season. The recruiting coordinator mentioned she’d get back to me by the end of the day. The recruiting coordinator mentioned she’d get back to me by the end of the day. I was tense. My confidence was dwindling. 5pm rolls by, no call….

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Founded in 1998 by current CEO Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google recruits top talent from the best schools and companies across the globe – in fact, they are one of the only firms that works hard NOT to hire consultants and has built an internal consulting powerhouse. Are you an employer, recruiter, or hiring manager?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

AUGUST 1, 2019

As a consequence, business leaders have to deal with challenging social-political situations and rising political uncertainty in their home markets on top of changing economic conditions regarding employment, finance, growth, and trade.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Another challenge for us was that we tend to attract people during recruitment who have great values and behaviours. Thinking about impact, strategy and being commercial is an area we wanted to stetch people into. Chris: The programme we implemented covered commercial thinking, finance skills, and innovation.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 10, 2009

“How do you maintain and continue to develop a network with recruiters, Analysts, MDs, etc. If you work overseas, how do you get to America in both office, transfer, and general recruiting networking?” Finance-Specific Networking. What do you think about non-finance work graduate school, then transitioning through an MBA?

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It is crucial for business owners to understand where they stand, what they want to achieve, and how to execute their strategies. A strategy consultant will take an overall view of the client's business and market while looking at its allocation of resources, and try to improve the client’s business.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

According to 80,000 HOURS , there are more highly qualified people than there are jobs at top strategy consulting firms, and it is implausible to be more than 50% confident that you can get an offer regardless of how qualified you are. Fortunately, a top management consulting firm is not the end all and be all. Refine Your Search.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 19, 2017

Today, Intuit’s expanding portfolio serves customers in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and India, making it easier for small business owners and accountants to manage their finances, offering localized, desktop and online versions of their products. Are you an employer, recruiter, or hiring manager?

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We’re talking digitization and the shift toward data-first business strategies. Professional services firms must move fast to accelerate digital transformation, build a unified data strategy, and lock down a competitive advantage. Workforce strategies also need to align with profit margins – billable hours, recruiting, retention.

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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. Kellogg has also recently placed a focus on recruiting more women in to its program, and women made up 35% of the Class of 2015.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

While MBB’s main focus is strategy, economic consulting firms like NERA focus is on economics first and strategy second. . Finance: Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection in Financial Services, Financial Institutions and Banking, Financial Risk Management. . Regulatory: Auctions, Regulatory Economics. . The key reason?

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s now January, and as the MBA internship recruitment season shifts into full gear, here are some tips from someone who went through the consulting recruitment process last year. It’ll test your foundation of strategy fundamentals, your ability to structure the problem, and your thought process as you drive towards a solution.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

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. Before the acquisition of Parthenon, consulting at EY was really synonymous to Advisory (not strategy). EY Consulting.

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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. If you want maximum career flexibility WITHIN finance (and corporate financial roles), investment banking provides that.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 1, 2009

Everything from recruiting to lifestyle, daily work to client relationships. Points and Per Se: Management Consulting Perks – discover the non-salary benefits of a life in strategy consulting, including laptops, expense accounts, and Starwood points. Pretty big news in the strategy consulting space! A few reader questions.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 26, 2015

You can generally bank on at least 3 interviews which typically consist of connecting with the recruiter for a phone screen, followed by a phone interview, then an in person interview with either a panel or the hiring manager. . Starbucks recruiters are known to be nice and honest, so make sure you reflect the same qualities. .

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Generally, recruiters will make their demands for previous experience or knowledge crystal clear. Jason Oh is a Senior Consultant, Strategy & Customer at EY.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Finance – A Finance degree not only shows that you’re proficient in math, but also implies you’re inquisitive and like to get to the root of problems. To be specific, a degree in finance shows that you not only know the numbers, but can communicate them in a way that is easy to understand.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

As UCLA’s Richard Rumelt, a leading expert on strategic planning, writes in his book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , one of the quintessential components of good strategy is the ability to take a step out of the internal storyline and shift viewpoints. The most powerful strategies arise from such game-changing insights.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. This makes corporate strategy an enormous and untapped prize for “robos” and “AI-enabled” expert advice across the entire enterprise; this market is ripe for disruption much the way the financial investing industry was in 2008.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Practice will only help for future interviews or next year’s recruiting cycle. Explore alternatives such as grad school, finance, and entrepreneurship. Suggested areas include finance (eg, investment banking and sales & trading) and the corporate track (eg, corporate management and product management).

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Strategy Consulting. Bridgespan brings a passion for making the world a better place into strategy consulting. Many that serve clients with strategy come from organizations (like Bain or McKinsey) that offer excellent toolkit and skills training pre-Bridgespan; the training at Bridgespan is there, but not as thorough.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Stacked full of big-brained folks, most of Analysis Group’s 600+ staff hold advanced degrees in law, economics, finance, accounting or business. In some ways, it feels like a boutique firm, whereas in others it feels like a pure strategy firm. Strategy & Analytics. ANALYSIS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Industries.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. What made you decide to pursue a career in strategy consulting? How do you work with clients?

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Be prepared for several rounds of interviews, the first of which consists of connecting with a recruiter for a phone screen. This final round consists of more behavioral questions and specific cases that you will be asked to come up with strategies for. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? Let us help you.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

New ideas and strategies while working on the projects, finding different ways of doing things more effectively; I started feeling enthralled. ” “I became interested in consulting while doing a PhD investigating regional economic integration in East Asia and Japan’s international trade strategy. .”

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2009

Always speak to bankers/consultants , not recruiters, to get things done. Not 50 questions about their job, not 100 questions about the strategy consulting industry. “How about for people who do not know consultants or even finance people? ” Recession Recruiting. Click here for more on recession recruiting.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 3, 2016

An organisation’s approach to strategy will always depend on the circumstances. By understanding the external environment, an organisation will then be able to develop a strategy to achieve continued success by taking advantage of opportunities and avoiding threats. Who are the organisation’s competitors?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

You should read books that help you to understand the case interview process and which suggest preparation strategy. One of my friends was establishing his business, and I offered help with marketing and product strategy. Preparation for case interviews is an essential component of getting into consulting. I can’t stress this enough.

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