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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

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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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Turnarounds. An example from 2014 occurred when McKinsey poached two partners from AlixPartners, one of the world’s best-known restructuring firms. An example from 2014 occurred when McKinsey poached two partners from AlixPartners, one of the world’s best-known restructuring firms. For some types of projects (e.g.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

In my time at McKinsey, easily half the people who left the firm went into the financial world (from hedge funds to PE), and salary was undoubtedly a major factor in the decision. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder. I’m trained for urban search and rescue, wilderness search and rescue, emergency medical response, basic life support, and mass casualty events.] I’ve been reading the treatment protocols with keen interest.]

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards. Honored by Finance Monthly as Turnaround & Restructuring Firm of the Year, Singapore.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

This prescient piece won the McKinsey Award, given each year to the HBR article judged to be the most significant — the first of several that Garvin took home. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. Recently, I became aware of the case of a Tokyo-based global conglomerate with a highly diversified business portfolio that could not find even one qualified CEO successor.