Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at The McKinsey Way , a book written by a former Associate at McKinsey, Ethan M. Rasiel, who is also the co-author of The McKinsey Mind. Does The McKinsey Way deserve that lower rating? Surviving at McKinsey. MORE
The following 7 categories of people have 8 days left to apply at McKinsey for a full-time position (provided they finish their programs in 2017/2018): PhDs. For most aspiring consultants, McKinsey is the gold standard. But the problem with McKinsey being so desirable is that everyone and their brother’s pet dog wants to work there. This will be your traditional McKinsey style case interview coupled with a fit interview as well. MORE
Global respondents see trade-policy changes as rising risks to growth, and those in developed economies report a more cautious outlook overall than their emerging-economy peers. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights MORE
Andy had failed a case interview with one firm but had a confirmed chance with McKinsey London, and he didn’t want to walk away without the offer. Just got off the phone with McKinsey and have been offered an Associate position!!!!!! mckinsey interview MORE
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, shows how companies can unlock big strategic moves to boost their odds of success, why competing in the digital age demands an agile organization, and how to navigate advances in artificial intelligence. MORE
This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. Tell me about the final rounds with McKinsey. MORE
Respondents’ economic optimism and confidence in their companies’ prospects reach a year-long high, though overinflated asset prices are a growing concern. Our Insights MORE
For those interested in management consulting – Dominic Barton is a name you will recognize – the managing partner at McKinsey & Company. This interview with him is a 1,500 word read, but … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Consulting Career Management consulting McKinseyBasically the chief of the chief consulting firm. MORE
Case Interviews Management Consulting consulting Consulting Frameworks consulting interviews McKinsey 7 S Model(Source: Flickr ). MORE
In this episode, you’ll learn how to emulate the success of the world’s most prestigious consulting firm, McKinsey. McKinsey’s homepage is the consulting website discussed in this video. Slides ] Welcome to Consulting Website Design Episode 2 – McKinsey. MORE
McKinsey & Co published a very authoritative 148 page study here (3.8Mb pdf) arguing a fairly simple (perhaps obvious) fact; the number of people freelancing is larger than you might think (20%+) and growing quickly. We all know ex-consultants, Uber drivers, photographers, web-sign designers, caterers, eBay arbitragers, mortgage attorneys, and real… Read More » The post McKinsey: How big is the gig economy? Uncategorized Gig economy McKinsey MORE
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. Then, a professor of mine suggested I reach out to one of his ex-students who had become a partner at McKinsey. How was settling in at McKinsey for you? What did you make of your work hours at McKinsey? MORE
At the country level, economic optimism has reached a six-year high in our latest survey. Globally, concerns over geopolitics and asset bubbles are on the rise. Our Insights MORE
Too many reasons to mention, but a good thumbnail will be this 9 minute interview with McKinsey here. Yes, is not your typical person – her CV looks like the gold standard – Harvard, Harvard Business, McKinsey, chief of staff to the Treasury secretary, Google, then COO of Facebook. MORE
Apparently, McKinsey was hired in 2014 to put together a roadmap to help reform the NY prison system for $1.74M. The head of McKinsey’s first project was counting pieces of chicken for KFC’s chicken nugget box after all. McKinsey interview: Sheryl Sanderberg. MORE
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? Here at Management Consulted we’ve known candidates, and have even coached a few, who got offers with McKinsey with no MBA. McKinsey recruits MBA candidates for 2 reasons. #1, MORE
Having recognized this, McKinsey is launching a brand new event – McKinsey Global Connect. The post McKinsey Global Connect appeared first on Management Consulted. It’s no secret – a majority of the growth multinational companies (and consulting firms) are experiencing is directly attributed to their work in emerging markets. This … Continued. consulting recruiting MORE
I have never worked at McKinsey. It’s on Quora, and it … Continue reading → Consultant Career Consulting Interview Management consulting McKinsey Quora Yet, I have 10+ credible reference points and 10,000 words of interview-worthy comments written by previous employees. Is this an ebook that you purchase for 99cents on Kindle? MORE
If there is any question that management consultants are hired to do difficult projects, look at this – McKinsey & Company will help the CIA reorganize and restructure here. Apparently, the plan is for the CIA to go from a functional structure … Continue reading → Consultant CIA McKinsey organization MORE
No, it’s an internal report created by the Defense Business Board, “a federal advisory panel of corporate executives, and consultants from… Read More » The post McKinsey’s $125B savings plan for the Pentagon, Ignored appeared first on Consultant's Mind. So this morning there was a fantastical headline in the Washington Post here: Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste What the hay? MORE
James McKinsey, the founder and namesake of McKinsey & Company, discovered this the hard way when he was recruited by one of his clients to be CEO. Uncategorized implementation McKinseyAfter many years consulting, he now had the authority to implement. In 1935, Marshall Fields was in need of help. The retailer had lost $12M over the last… Read More » The post Implementation takes guts appeared first on Consultant's Mind. MORE
McKinsey, in a 2011 article entitled Have Your Tested Your Strategy Lately?, McKinsey’s advice is to not look for the newest strategy fad or business guru, but instead… Read More » The post McKinsey: Testing your strategy appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Consultant Head Heart Hand McKinsey Strategy MORE
There is a recent a Harvard Business Review podcast interview with Clayton Christensen (of the Innovator’s Dilemma fame) and Dominic Barton (global managing director of McKinsey). They give a half … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Data Innovation Management consulting McKinsey Management consulting is changing. Don’t take my word for it. MORE
Global executives see geopolitical issues as a rising risk to growth, but they remain more buoyant than downbeat in their outlook for both the global and domestic economies. Our Insights MORE
It’s not surprising that McKinsey & Company bought a design company. Accenture bought Fjord, a … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Design Management consulting McKinseyDesign is popular. Many consulting firms are branching out with acquisitions in areas which were once considered non-core. Deloitte has picked up a few digital agencies. MORE
… Continue reading → Consultant MBA McKinsey UVA UVA Darden is a strong business school known for its case study method. Like Harvard, UVA uses this method to teach everything from finance to ethics. Over the course of 2 years, the students have more than 600 cases. Yes, it’s rigorous. MORE
In fact, they… Read More » The post McKinsey Report: Thriving in the New Abnormal, NA Asset Management appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Learning asset management McKinseyThe global asset management business is huge. MORE
The market has a wonderful way of arbitraging work (thank you Adam Smith) to the least … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Consulting Career Management consulting McKinseyRoutine work is going away. It always has been. Technology as old as the wheel, letter typeset, and the cotton gin have freed people from mundane and repetitive tasks. MORE
Dominic Barton, the global managing partner of McKinsey&Company, discusses the firm’s sustainability efforts. He talks about the wake-up call he got about sustainability and how he tries to convince CEOs hesitant to make it part of their business model that doing so will improve company performance. He says he sees companies thinking about the environment. “But the speed and scale of what we need to do — I don’t think it’s sufficient.” MORE
Curious what a McKinsey presentation looks like? Please find links to 30+ McKinsey presentations which are publicly available online. I selected the ones which as less than 10 years old have more than… Read More » The post 30+ McKinsey presentations appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Consultant McKinsey McKinsey presentation PowerPoint MORE
Richard Rumelt, UCLA professor, outlines 4 common ways that companies often fool themselves into a bad strategy in a McKinsey Quarterly article here. I would argue that that many organizational “strategies” are… Read More » The post McKinsey Quarterly: The perils of bad strategy appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Consultant bad strategy McKinsey Quarterly StrategyLike anything valuable, good strategy is rare. MORE
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, explores how digitization will shape global industries, discusses how to make better decisions, provides an action plan for workplace automation, and suggests ways for companies to improve HR. Our Insights MORE
We have a special treat for you, as our very own interview coach Lisa Bright joins us to share about her McKinsey career. Glean from Lisa’s experience as she shares how she broke into The Firm from a non-target school in Ohio, the nature of her projects while at McKinsey, and how she decided to leave McKinsey when the time was right. Have questions about breaking into McKinsey? Without further ado, here’s Lisa sharing about her McKinsey career. MORE
The McKinsey study Poorer than Their Parents? offers a new perspective on income inequality over the period 2005-2014. Based on … Continue reading → Economics MORE
Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. McKinsey: Obfuscation through Excessive Analysis. One common characterization of McKinsey work is that they will do all sorts of ridiculous levels of analysis, even if the outcome isnt cogent to the actual case. McKinseys going to use an interesting mathematical formula to tie economics and nature together. MORE
McKinsey published a 120 page report on the digitization of America here (2.6Mb). McKinsey shows in the graph below that over a 20 year time frame, the profit margin of non-financial industries grew from 5.6% Here is where McKinsey makes a bold prediction. MORE
If you want to learn to speak like a McKinsey consultant, read Brett Arends’ recent article in Forbes. He is a former McKinsey consultant himself, and the article is both informative and amusing. Management Consulting Brett Arends consulting Forbes McKinsey MORE
Welcome to Consulting Website Design 014: McKinsey part 2. In today’s episode, the consulting website/pages we’re looking at is McKinsey’s article page , services page , and contact page. So let’s click through Digital McKinsey…. MORE
In the face of political transitions and concerns over trade, executives expect improvements at home and a stable global economy—with some regional divergences. Our Insights MORE
McKinsey & Company do great work. Let’s dissect a McKinsey presentation. What are some key elements of a McKinsey presentation worth following? I have physically seen a dozen or so from clients who had McKinsey-ites passing through their halls. MORE
That’s why today, we’re bringing you the most high-level McKinsey Case Interview Tips we can. The post McKinsey Case Interview Tips appeared first on Management Consulted. Whether you’ve been casing for months, or just started yesterday, it always helps to get some expert guidance along the way. What’s the one thing … Continued. case interviews MORE
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. McKinsey has also worked with some of the biggest companies in the world. After browsing through the websites of the most prestigious consulting firms, McKinsey’s stood out to me the most. MORE
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APRIL 23, 2017
Curious what a McKinsey presentation looks like? Please find links to 30+ McKinsey presentations which are publicly available online. I selected the ones which as less than 10 years old have more than… Read More » The post 30+ McKinsey presentations appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Consultant McKinsey McKinsey presentation PowerPoint
Management Consulted
APRIL 29, 2018
Having recognized this, McKinsey is launching a brand new event – McKinsey Global Connect. The post McKinsey Global Connect appeared first on Management Consulted. It’s no secret – a majority of the growth multinational companies (and consulting firms) are experiencing is directly attributed to their work in emerging markets. This … Continued. consulting recruiting
Consultants Mind
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
McKinsey, in a 2011 article entitled Have Your Tested Your Strategy Lately?, McKinsey’s advice is to not look for the newest strategy fad or business guru, but instead… Read More » The post McKinsey: Testing your strategy appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Consultant Head Heart Hand McKinsey Strategy
Consultants Mind
JULY 20, 2017
Richard Rumelt, UCLA professor, outlines 4 common ways that companies often fool themselves into a bad strategy in a McKinsey Quarterly article here. I would argue that that many organizational “strategies” are… Read More » The post McKinsey Quarterly: The perils of bad strategy appeared first on Consultant's Mind. Consultant bad strategy McKinsey Quarterly StrategyLike anything valuable, good strategy is rare.
Consultants Mind
OCTOBER 31, 2016
McKinsey & Co published a very authoritative 148 page study here (3.8Mb pdf) arguing a fairly simple (perhaps obvious) fact; the number of people freelancing is larger than you might think (20%+) and growing quickly. We all know ex-consultants, Uber drivers, photographers, web-sign designers, caterers, eBay arbitragers, mortgage attorneys, and real… Read More » The post McKinsey: How big is the gig economy? Uncategorized Gig economy McKinsey
Consultants Mind
JANUARY 28, 2016
Apparently, McKinsey was hired in 2014 to put together a roadmap to help reform the NY prison system for $1.74M. The head of McKinsey’s first project was counting pieces of chicken for KFC’s chicken nugget box after all. McKinsey interview: Sheryl Sanderberg.
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 8, 2017
That’s why today, we’re bringing you the most high-level McKinsey Case Interview Tips we can. The post McKinsey Case Interview Tips appeared first on Management Consulted. Whether you’ve been casing for months, or just started yesterday, it always helps to get some expert guidance along the way. What’s the one thing … Continued. case interviews
Consultants Mind
MAY 17, 2015
It’s not surprising that McKinsey & Company bought a design company. Accenture bought Fjord, a … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Design Management consulting McKinseyDesign is popular. Many consulting firms are branching out with acquisitions in areas which were once considered non-core. Deloitte has picked up a few digital agencies.
Consultants Mind
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
The market has a wonderful way of arbitraging work (thank you Adam Smith) to the least … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Consulting Career Management consulting McKinseyRoutine work is going away. It always has been. Technology as old as the wheel, letter typeset, and the cotton gin have freed people from mundane and repetitive tasks.
Consultants Mind
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
There is a recent a Harvard Business Review podcast interview with Clayton Christensen (of the Innovator’s Dilemma fame) and Dominic Barton (global managing director of McKinsey). They give a half … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Data Innovation Management consulting McKinsey Management consulting is changing. Don’t take my word for it.
Consultants Mind
AUGUST 17, 2015
If there is any question that management consultants are hired to do difficult projects, look at this – McKinsey & Company will help the CIA reorganize and restructure here. Apparently, the plan is for the CIA to go from a functional structure … Continue reading → Consultant CIA McKinsey organization
Management Consulted
APRIL 16, 2017
We have a special treat for you, as our very own interview coach Lisa Bright joins us to share about her McKinsey career. Glean from Lisa’s experience as she shares how she broke into The Firm from a non-target school in Ohio, the nature of her projects while at McKinsey, and how she decided to leave McKinsey when the time was right. Have questions about breaking into McKinsey? Without further ado, here’s Lisa sharing about her McKinsey career.
Consultants Mind
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
McKinsey published a 120 page report on the digitization of America here (2.6Mb). McKinsey shows in the graph below that over a 20 year time frame, the profit margin of non-financial industries grew from 5.6% Here is where McKinsey makes a bold prediction.
Consultants Mind
JANUARY 14, 2015
… Continue reading → Consultant MBA McKinsey UVA UVA Darden is a strong business school known for its case study method. Like Harvard, UVA uses this method to teach everything from finance to ethics. Over the course of 2 years, the students have more than 600 cases. Yes, it’s rigorous.
Consultants Mind
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
For those interested in management consulting – Dominic Barton is a name you will recognize – the managing partner at McKinsey & Company. This interview with him is a 1,500 word read, but … Continue reading → Consultant Consulting Consulting Career Management consulting McKinseyBasically the chief of the chief consulting firm.
Consultants Mind
DECEMBER 6, 2016
No, it’s an internal report created by the Defense Business Board, “a federal advisory panel of corporate executives, and consultants from… Read More » The post McKinsey’s $125B savings plan for the Pentagon, Ignored appeared first on Consultant's Mind. So this morning there was a fantastical headline in the Washington Post here: Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste What the hay?
Tsavo Neal
DECEMBER 5, 2017
In this episode, you’ll learn how to emulate the success of the world’s most prestigious consulting firm, McKinsey. McKinsey’s homepage is the consulting website discussed in this video. Slides ] Welcome to Consulting Website Design Episode 2 – McKinsey.
Consultants Mind
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
I have never worked at McKinsey. It’s on Quora, and it … Continue reading → Consultant Career Consulting Interview Management consulting McKinsey Quora Yet, I have 10+ credible reference points and 10,000 words of interview-worthy comments written by previous employees. Is this an ebook that you purchase for 99cents on Kindle?
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 16, 2014
Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at The McKinsey Way , a book written by a former Associate at McKinsey, Ethan M. Rasiel, who is also the co-author of The McKinsey Mind. Does The McKinsey Way deserve that lower rating? Surviving at 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? Here at Management Consulted we’ve known candidates, and have even coached a few, who got offers with McKinsey with no MBA. McKinsey recruits MBA candidates for 2 reasons. #1,
Management Consulted
JULY 10, 2016
The following 7 categories of people have 8 days left to apply at McKinsey for a full-time position (provided they finish their programs in 2017/2018): PhDs. For most aspiring consultants, McKinsey is the gold standard. But the problem with McKinsey being so desirable is that everyone and their brother’s pet dog wants to work there. This will be your traditional McKinsey style case interview coupled with a fit interview as well.
Management Consulted
AUGUST 21, 2013
Andy had failed a case interview with one firm but had a confirmed chance with McKinsey London, and he didn’t want to walk away without the offer. Just got off the phone with McKinsey and have been offered an Associate position!!!!!! mckinsey interview
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
Case Interviews Management Consulting consulting Consulting Frameworks consulting interviews McKinsey 7 S Model(Source: Flickr ).
Tsavo Neal
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Welcome to Consulting Website Design 014: McKinsey part 2. In today’s episode, the consulting website/pages we’re looking at is McKinsey’s article page , services page , and contact page. So let’s click through Digital McKinsey….
Consultant Ninja
JUNE 10, 2009
Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. McKinsey: Obfuscation through Excessive Analysis. One common characterization of McKinsey work is that they will do all sorts of ridiculous levels of analysis, even if the outcome isnt cogent to the actual case. McKinseys going to use an interesting mathematical formula to tie economics and nature together.
McKinsey
MARCH 29, 2018
Global respondents see trade-policy changes as rising risks to growth, and those in developed economies report a more cautious outlook overall than their emerging-economy peers. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights
McKinsey
DECEMBER 13, 2017
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, examines AI-driven automation and how it will transform the economy, discusses why lifelong learning should be a corporate priority, and lays out the health imperative for organizations. Our Insights
Tom Spencer
JUNE 9, 2014
If you want to learn to speak like a McKinsey consultant, read Brett Arends’ recent article in Forbes. He is a former McKinsey consultant himself, and the article is both informative and amusing. Management Consulting Brett Arends consulting Forbes McKinsey
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 4, 2013
This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. Tell me about the final rounds with 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. Then, a professor of mine suggested I reach out to one of his ex-students who had become a partner at McKinsey. How was settling in at McKinsey for you? What did you make of your work hours at McKinsey?
McKinsey
MARCH 20, 2018
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, shows how companies can unlock big strategic moves to boost their odds of success, why competing in the digital age demands an agile organization, and how to navigate advances in artificial intelligence.
McKinsey
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Respondents’ economic optimism and confidence in their companies’ prospects reach a year-long high, though overinflated asset prices are a growing concern. Our Insights
McKinsey
JUNE 29, 2017
Global executives see geopolitical issues as a rising risk to growth, but they remain more buoyant than downbeat in their outlook for both the global and domestic economies. Our Insights
Harvard Business
MARCH 13, 2018
Dominic Barton, the global managing partner of McKinsey&Company, discusses the firm’s sustainability efforts. He talks about the wake-up call he got about sustainability and how he tries to convince CEOs hesitant to make it part of their business model that doing so will improve company performance. He says he sees companies thinking about the environment. “But the speed and scale of what we need to do — I don’t think it’s sufficient.”
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
This issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, explores how digitization will shape global industries, discusses how to make better decisions, provides an action plan for workplace automation, and suggests ways for companies to improve HR. Our Insights
MishTalk
AUGUST 7, 2016
The McKinsey study Poorer than Their Parents? offers a new perspective on income inequality over the period 2005-2014. Based on … Continue reading → Economics
Consultants Mind
AUGUST 7, 2017
James McKinsey, the founder and namesake of McKinsey & Company, discovered this the hard way when he was recruited by one of his clients to be CEO. Uncategorized implementation McKinseyAfter many years consulting, he now had the authority to implement. In 1935, Marshall Fields was in need of help. The retailer had lost $12M over the last… Read More » The post Implementation takes guts appeared first on Consultant's Mind.
Tsavo Neal
APRIL 13, 2017
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. McKinsey has also worked with some of the biggest companies in the world. After browsing through the websites of the most prestigious consulting firms, McKinsey’s stood out to me the most.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
At the country level, economic optimism has reached a six-year high in our latest survey. Globally, concerns over geopolitics and asset bubbles are on the rise. Our Insights
McKinsey
DECEMBER 22, 2016
In the face of political transitions and concerns over trade, executives expect improvements at home and a stable global economy—with some regional divergences. Our Insights
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